Fazio get more lady action. The actor who plays him is gorgeous and this is coming from someone who prefers Spanish men to Italian ones. Sexy looking man.
Don't be late, don't hesitate, this dream can pass just as fast as lightning.
At least in the novels, he's a happy husband and father. And (again, in the novels) actually older than Montalbano (and the doyen of the police station).
shareI believe you're getting confused with Fazio's dad, who was a police official prior to Fazio joining the force.
shareIf you have the short story collection "un mese con Montalbano" ('a month with Montalbano'), in the short story "una trappola per gatti" ('a cat trap') Fazio celebrates his 25th wedding anniversary.
shareNo, I have all the novels, but none of the short-story collections. Perhaps it's because I watched at least some of the movies before reading the books, but I don't recall anything in the books which hints at Fazio being older than Montalbano.
Of course, I wasn't looking for that either. The next time I read one, I'll have to keep my eyes open for things which would indicate their relative ages. I guess I'll also have to hunt down the short-story collections.
Perhaps the films stray, in that regard, from the text. In the spin-off series, Il giovane Montalbano, which shows Montalbano's arrival in Vigata as a younger man, Fazio's dad, Carmine Fazio, is a respected police official at the Vigata station. In a later episode of the spin-off, his son, Giuseppe Fazio [the one who appears in Il commissario Montalbano], joins the police, following in his father's footsteps.
Without re-reading the novels and checking the story to which you refer, I can't be sure, since things often change when works are adapted for film, but I still think that the Fazio mentioned in "Una trappola per gatti" is Carmine Fazio, not Giuseppe.
Just chiming in on this two-year old question.
I've only read one of the Montalbano books so far, so I don't know how Giuseppe Fazio-- the young "Fazio" played by Peppino Mazzotta, not his father, who appears in "Young Montalbano"-- is portrayed in the books.
But I think that it's just a matter of Fazio being written as young, traditional-minded, and most of all naturally shy/introverted when it comes to personal relationships.
I went with "traditional-minded" because "socially conservative" seemed too strong. But he seems to focus on his duties and responsibilities, whether it's his studies or police work.
This quality may also exist because Fazio is sort of "Montalbano Junior".
Montalbano has Livia, more or less, and as we see is occasionally tempted and even successfully seduced by the absolutely stunning women who fall all over him.
But even Montalbano has a sort of gentlemanly restraint, and unlike Mimi is no womanizer. I think that both Montalbano and Fazio have traditional moral standards that discourage promiscuity.
So, like his mentor, Fazio may simply be starting out slowly. In the meantime, he's more like Catarella than Salvo (or Mimi) when it comes to women.
Frankly, I think that in both real life and TV life, it's become a given that all "normal" characters are sexually active, and unmarried characters are assumed to be cheerfully promiscuous.
Although it seems strange to portray a young, good-looking character like Fazio as "an old-fashioned guy" when he'd make such a great babe hound, I give "Montalbano"'s creators credit for resisting this trend.