2023 Programme
Event #16
Matteo Nucci
A poet’s wonder: Omer
According to established tradition, the oldest poem in our literary tradition is the Iliad. Its power – for readers of all ages – lies in the fifty-one days narrated, a small fragment cut out of the ten-year siege of Troy. A fragment that is almost accidental and which, nonetheless, encourages us to know everything, especially what we are not told, what we know from the beginning and what, as we read, will never happen: Achilles' death. It is around the poem's protagonist, his friend Patroclus, and his enemy Hector that the effort of the epic poets revolves – convinced that only the listener, or the reader, can create the wonder of poetry. And that is why they let us find our own way to dream the epilogue we already think we know.
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Matteo Nucci was born in Rome in 1970. He has published several novels with Ponte alle Grazie, including "Sono comuni le cose degli amici" (2009, finalist for the Premio Strega), "Il toro non sbaglia mai" (2011), "È giusto obbedire alla notte" (2017, finalist for the Premio Strega), and the narrative essay "L’abisso di Eros" (2018). For Einaudi, he released a new edition of Plato's "Symposium" (2009) and the narrative essays "Le lacrime degli eroi" (2013), "Achille e Odisseo. La ferocia e l’inganno" (2020), and "Il grido di Pan" (2023). With HarperCollins, he published the novel "Sono difficili le cose belle" (2022) and "Sognava i leoni. L’eroismo fragile di Ernest Hemingway" (2024). His short stories have appeared in magazines, anthologies, and eBooks. He also collaborates with the magazines La Stampa and L’Espresso.
Event #15
Martina Mazzotta
Wunderkammer: art, science, wonder. From the Renaissance until the present day
Event #20Approfonditamente
Marianna Aprile, Maurizio Careddu, Enrico Casale, Cristiana Farina, Gianluca Guida
Wonder inside: stories of art and beauty from Italian prisons
