Montalbano
Proper noun
Meaning
Montalbano (plural Montalbanos)
A surname.
Phrases with the word
Examples
In 1932 the Chianti area was completely re-drawn and divided in seven sub-areas: Classico, Colli Aretini, Colli Fiorentini, Colline Pisane, Colli Senesi, Montalbano and Rùfina.
As an angry octogenarian holds a terrified and lovelorn secretary at gunpoint, Inspector Montalbano is reluctantly drawn into the case.
Montalbano has a long-running romance at a distance with a woman in Palermo.
Given this scarily authentic back-story, readers can expect rather different fare from the genial, even sentimental, adventures of Inspector Montalbano across the straits in Sicily.
The Montalbano novel I read on Sicily was The Scent of the Night, first published just over a decade ago.
The real Sicily lives in his pages - its smells, its tastes (I have already cooked a couple of the dishes Montalbano enjoys most) and, above all, its language.