Patrizia Poli
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Patrizia Poli was born in Livorno in 1961. Writer of fiction and blogger, she published seven novels.
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Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920) was born in Livorno from Sephardi Jews. His father is an impoverished money changer, there are cases of depression in the family, a brother is jailed. Undermined by TB from an early age, he is stubborn, independent, very good at drawing, he becomes a pupil of Guglielmo Micheli and meets Giovanni Fattori and Silvestro Lega.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Simone Giusti's "Pisa Connection"
Simone Giusti, whose delicate story for children “Il giardino di bosco fitto”, I read, inaugurates a Pulp series, with the short novel “Pisa Connection”. A whole different style, a whole different grit but always the same excellent writing.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Riccardo Marchi
Riccardo Marchi (1897–1992) is truly a forgotten character in the Italian literary panorama, searching online you can find very little about him. Yet, Riccardo Marchi has been compared by critics to Tozzi, Verga and Capuana, for the realism of the description and for his being a scholar of Livorno folklore and traditions.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Carlo Bini
Democratic and romantic, Carlo Bini was brilliant, intelligent, creative, but restless, indocile and rebellious. He was born of a humble family, in Via delle Galere in Livorno, he attended the college of the Barnabites, where he met Guerrazzi, but was forced to interrupt his studies and unwillingly devote himself to the father’s grain and cereal stand, which humiliated and conditioned him throughout the existence, frustrating his political and intellectual aspirations. He continued to study as a self-taught, learning Greek and Latin but also German, French and English, translating Byron and Sterne.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Lord Byron
“In 1822, Lord George Byron, the most famous of the poets of modern England, lived in Montenero for six weeks. He lived in the Dupouy villa now De Paoli, and according to what they say, in the room in the corner between the main front and the western side of the villa. At the end of this room is a small alcove where the bed occupied by Byron was. (…) Count Ruggero Gamba had come to Montenero with his son Pietro and daughter Teresa married to Count Guiccioli, with a retinue of servants from Romagna, on which all, because they belonged to the secret society of the Carbonari, held a great vigilance the Tuscan police, for which Lord Byron was also an unwelcome guest whose ardently liberal ideas were known, but also his disordered and incorrect life and the nature intolerant of every restraint and submission ” Pietro Vigo.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Angelika Palli
Anghelikì Pallis (1798–1875), daughter of the consul, as well as director of the Greek school of Livorno, was born from Hellenic parents. She studies with Maestro de Coureil (of French origin but who died in Livorno). She inherits from her father the love for literature and the classics and she begins to versify in her adolescence. She writes poems, short stories, tragedies, novels. Her “Tieste”, dated 1814, deserves Monti’s praise. In 1919 she becomes a member of the Labronica Academy, with the name of Zelmira.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Otello Chelli's "Rizio"
Rizio belongs to the “Morgiano lineage”, he is young, handsome, poor. Rizio is a hard and pure Communist, with a noble, supportive, almost evangelical soul. He lives in the slum, built on the lawns of the Nuova fortress following the bombing that devastated Livorno. Well-liked by the leaders of the party, he is making a career as a politician, maintaining independence of judgment and personal conscience. He runs into Valeria Righi, a leading exponent of the Christian Democrats. Valeria is older than Rizio, she is a fervent Catholic, anti-Communist, married with children. But she is beautiful, sweet, innocent, as pure as the young Labron. They fall in love and life overwhelms them.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Angela Caccia's "Il Tocco Abarico del Dubbio"
Not being afraid of emotions, feelings and beauty is a good thing, too often considered unfashionable. “The abaric touch of doubt” is a collection by Angela Caccia that still manages to move us. The title refers to that point — the abaric point — in zero gravity, where the attraction of the earth and the moon cancel each other out. There lies the doubt, which allows us to investigate, which, in turn, leads towards the self, towards being in the world, a Dasein of Heideggerian memory.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Amleto De Silva, "La nobile arte di misurarsi la palla"
I state that I sometimes write reviews in the plural maiestatis, not because I am of aristocratic lineage but because I was taught this way at university in the fabulous eighties. However, to comment on “The noble art of measuring the ball” by Amleto de Silva (I will not call him Amlo, as we are not confident) I will use the first person, since the subject touches me and moves something inside me. I also state, by way of information, that I am not a “professor acting as vice principal”, that I voted for the Pd but only occasionally and that sometimes I even “mi reco” to the baker instead of just going there and that my husband has exactly what he deserves, which is me.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Education
