On 2 March 2009 in a civil ceremony in New York City, he married Eva Marie Valdez, an editor, who has worked for several New York publishing houses, including Rizzoli.
On January 16, 2008, he published his first book, the anthology of short novels I vivi ("The Living"), for Rizzoli.
He is best known for his interior design of the original Rizzoli International Bookstore on Fifth Avenue in New York City (1964), and for his landmark Saul Victor House in the Riverdale section of New York City (1967), noted in the American Institute of Architects' AIA Guide to New York City as a "formal modernist design in now-grayed redwood siding".
La vita agra, known in English-speaking countries as It's a Hard Life, is a novel by Luciano Bianciardi published in 1962 by Rizzoli.
Since the publication of this book, she has worked in the publishing industry for more than 20 years, holding senior editorial positions at Rizzoli, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Aperture, and ARTnews.
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In 2003, publisher Rizzoli began reissuing some of the titles, although not in the original publication order.
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Some of the De Santis' short stories have been published in magazines, such as Linea d’ombra and Nuovi Argomenti, and in the anthologies Decalogo, (Rizzoli) and Luna nuova (Argo).
The Della Valle family, which owns a vast majority of the luxury maker also has stakes in RCS MediaGroup, the football team Fiorentina and other companies.