Episodes
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Reading from narrator-essayist Natalia Ginzburg's Human Relationships (1953) and Small Virtues (1962) clear and easy to understand.
Credits : "Due destini" by F. Zampaglione / R. Sinigallia (2000) -
Alessandro G's reading of father David Maria Turoldo as voiced by poet Alda Merini (2009)
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Episodes manquant?
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Extracts from The Future of Our Memories by Italo Svevo (1925)
- Credits : FairyTale Waltz by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100232
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Reading from Dacia Maraini's masterpiece, The Silent Duchess.
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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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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 (1678-1741) -
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) -
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 Farres (1946) ; Beniamino Gigli's "O begli occhi di fata" by Luigi Denza and Tremacoldo (1884) -
Reading from Goliarda Sapienza's masterpiece, The Art of Joy, featuring Elena Asciutti.
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Reading from Italo Calvino's 1957 novel "The Baron in the Trees" courtesy of Fabrizia Di Francesco, master of theatrical arts. -
Credits: Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 - Classical Whimsical di Kevin MacLeod è un brano concesso in uso tramite licenza Creative Commons Attribuzione 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ - Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100303 - Artist: http://incompetech.com/ -
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 l'estate" by Odoardo Spadaro, 1940. -
Rain in the pinewoods, D'Annunzio's masterpiece of poetry.
Credits: "L'estate" by Antonio Vivaldi, 1725.
Special thanks to my friend Stijn Vermeire, who knows the poem by heart. -
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" by Bixio and Brignone, 1936.
Featuring: Paola Medri, who read it in grace.
