Marianna Ucria

Reading from Dacia Maraini’s masterpiece, The Silent Duchess.

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Il cappotto di astrakan

From Italy’s lakes region to Paris, the adventures of an idle young man in Piero Chiara’s Astrakhan coat, featuring Sara Maiorana.

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Le ceneri di Gramsci

Celebrating a major poet of 1900s, Pier Paolo Pasolini, one hundred years after his birth. Credits : “RV 481, concerto in re minore per fagotto, no. 5” by Antonio Vivaldi

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Celebrating Morante’s Bildungsroman in the year when the island of Procida is the Italian capital of culture. Credits : “Senza fine” by Gino Paoli and Ornella Vanoni (1961)

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From Antonio Tabucchi’s short story “Letter from Casablanca” featuring Domenico De Marco. Credits : Josephine Baker’s “Banana Dance” (1925) ; “Rosamunda” by Jaromír Vejvoda (1927) ; “Acércate Más” by Osvaldo

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L’arte della gioia

Reading from Goliarda Sapienza’s masterpiece, The Art of Joy.

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Il barone rampante

Reading from Italo Calvino’s 1957 novel “The Baron in the Trees”, featuring Fabrizia Di Francesco, master of theatrical arts. Credits: Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 – Classical Whimsical di Kevin MacLeod è

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La bella estate

Reading from 1950 Premio Strega award winner Cesare Pavese’s Beautiful Summer. Credits: “È troppo tardi” by Walter Colì, 1949; “Voglio vivere così” by Giovanni D’Anzi and Tito Manlio, 1941; “Quando

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La pioggia nel pineto

Rain in the pinewoods, D’Annunzio’s masterpiece of poetry. Credits: “L’estate” by Antonio Vivaldi, 1725. Featuring: Stijn Vermeire, who knows the poem by heart.

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Il prete bello

Reading about “The Handsome Priest”, a 1954 novel by Goffredo Parise, probably his best work as a realist writer. A fresco of ordinary Italians under the Fascist regime. Credits: “Vivere”

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