On Budelli, an idyllic rock in the vicinity of a larger island – wild Sardinia – over a long period, Mauro Morandi had created a singular life for himself, watching over the delicate balance ...

He was the sole resident of Budelli, an undeveloped sliver of paradise off the northern coast of Sardinia. He embraced the solitude, until he was evicted. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from ...

Mauro Morandi, famously nicknamed "Robinson Crusoe" for his solitary life on the remote Budelli Island in the Mediterranean, has died at the age of 85. Morandi’s remarkable story of self ...