La lettura

Reading from Goffredo Parise's set of short stories representing the ordinary human kind,  Sillabario n. 2, "Grazia" (1982)  Credits :  "L'appuntamento" by R. Carlos / B. Lauzi / E. Carlos (1970)

Reading from Leonardo Sciascia's essay on Mount Etna country.  Credits :  "Cruciverba" by L. Sciascia (1983)  -  "Canto di mezzaluna" by A. Vasta (2007) 

Reading from Maria Bellonci's "gentle viper" aka Milan.  Credits: "Tu vipera gentile" by M. Bellonci (1972)

Teresa Carson's reading of her own piece of poetry - unprecedentedly - in Italian.  Credits :  "Guarda l'alba" by C. Consoli / T. Ferro (2010)

Alessandro G's reading from Rodari's Telephone Tales, The Invisible Kid.  Credits : "Tonino l'invisibile" by G. Rodari (1962) 

Season's reading from Alberto Moravia's Roman Tales, on his very birthday. Credits : "Canon and Variation" by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 - http://www.twinmusicom.org/

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)

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 Artist: http://incompetech.com/

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

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

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.

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?is...

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.