Matteo Persica

Matteo Persica has devoted twenty years of primary research to Anna Magnani.

He is the author of Anna Magnani. Biografia di una donna (2016), which Maurizio Costanzo called "the finest book ever written about Anna Magnani", and of the novel Anna Magnani. Life Is Beautiful Anyway, also published in Italian, French and Spanish: the first complete versions of the actress's life in those languages.

In 2017 he published a biography of the singer Rino Gaetano.

A new revised and expanded edition of his Anna Magnani biography is due in November 2026.