Tuesday, January 20, 6:30 p.m.
The Italian Library #20: Dark Presences. A Journey through Italian Gothic
Ornella Tarantola and Loredana Lipperini will discuss how Italian fantastic and gothic literature—from Dino Buzzati to Chiara Palazzolo, passing through Eraldo Baldini—reflects and illuminates our contemporary world.
Starting from her novel inspired by the famous television drama Il segno del comando, Loredana Lipperini will guide us on a journey through the imagination where presences become questions and where, perhaps, answers lurk behind the shadows. Because, in truth… the witches have never really gone away!
Readings by Marco Gambino.
IN ITALIAN.
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Loredana Lipperini was born in Rome in 1956. She is a writer, journalist, and radio host. She has collaborated and continues to collaborate with various publications, including La Stampa and L’Espresso. Since 2015 she has taught courses on fantastic literature at the Holden School in Turin. She directs the festival Gita al Faro in Ventotene and, together with Lucia Tancredi, I giorni della merla in Macerata. Among her works are the trilogy on women (Ancora dalla parte delle bambine, Non è un paese per vecchie, Di mamma ce n’è più d’una, all published by Feltrinelli), children’s books Pupa (Rose Sélavy), Il senzacoda and Il re dei mostri (Salani), the novels L’arrivo di Saturno and La notte si avvicina, the short-story collection Magia nera (Bompiani), and Il segno del comando (Railibri). Since 2004 she has maintained the blog Lipperatura.
Marco Gambino is a theatre, film and television actor. He lives in London and performs in Italian, French and English. His recent work includes the television series Those About to Die, available on Amazon Prime. He has just returned from a tour in Vietnam, where he starred alongside pianist Marcelo Bratke in the production Invitation au voyage.