A round table with Paolo Leoncini, Emanuele Trevi (in live streaming) and Mariachiara Leteo.
Paolo Leoncini presents his latest book L’argilla delle parole. Natura immagine letteratura in Emilio Cecchi (Edizioni Canova), a collection of essays on Emilio Cecchi written between 2017 and 2023, including Il Mediterraneo materno e storico di Emilio Cecchi; Natura e poesia nella critica di Emilio Cecchi: Wordsworth, Pascoli, D’Annunzio; Gli esordi della critica pascoliana: Emilio Cecchi e il “binomio” natura-dolore; La “visività ripiegata”: il Notturno di D’Annunzio nell’interpretazione di Emilio Cecchi; Parola verbale e poetica del visivo: dalla classicità di Emilio Cecchi alla tardomodernità: La Londra di Emilio Cecchi, plus Gianfranco Contini’s il “paganesimo originario” di Emilio Cecchi. Foreword by Massimo Schiliro’.
The author will discuss Emilio Cecchi and his work with writer and critic Emanuele Trevi and scholar Mariachiara Leteo.
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Paolo Leoncini taught Italian contemporary literature, history of the Italian literary critic and Italian literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice between 1970 and 2008. Among his publications, Cecchi e D’Annunzio (Bulzoni 1976),with foreword by Emerico Giachery, finalist at Premio Viareggio 1976 and at Premio Luigi Russo 1977, L’onestà sperimentale. Carteggio di Emilio Cecchi e Gianfranco Contini (Adelphi 2000), Emilio Cecchi L’etica del visivo e lo Stato liberale, con Appendice di testi giornalistici rari (Milella, Lecce 2017), Letteratura veneta tra Novecento e Duemila (Edizioni Canova 2021).
He has written extensively on Emilio Cecchi and, since 1991, on Gianfranco Contini. In 2005 he founded, together with some of his colleagues at Ca’ Foscari, the Ermeneutica letteraria. Rivista internazionale, Serra Editore, Pisa-Roma, that he co-edits. He is also a painter and graphic designer, with several solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad, and is a “membre associé” of the “Société des artistes francais”.
Emanuele Trevi is one of the most acclaimed writers and literary critics in Italy today. Among his works, the three novels Qualcosa di scritto (2012, Premio Strega Finalist, winner of the Premio Europeo per la letteratura, translated in eighteen languages), Sogni e favole (2019, Premio Viareggio) and Il figlio del mago (2023) all published by Ponte alle Grazie, same as a new edition of the essay Musica Distante (2012). He is also the author of Istruzioni per l’uso del lupo (Castelvecchi, 1994), I cani del nulla (Einaudi, 2003), Senza verso (Laterza, 2004), Il libro della gioia perpetua (Rizzoli, 2010), Il popolo di legno (Einaudi, 2015). His book Due vite (Neri Pozza, 2020) was awarded the prestigious Premio Strega in 2021.
Dr Mariachiara Leteo has completed her DPhil in English Literature at the University of Oxford, with a comparative literature project focused on how different definitions of poetry influenced the prose styles of Virginia Woolf and Emilio Cecchi. On this topic, she is currently preparing her first monograph, Poetic Effects in Prose: Virginia Woolf and Emilio Cecchi, while she teaches English, Italian and Comparative Literature at the Oxford Department for Continuing Education. Mariachiara is also a member of the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Research Centre (OCCT), where for two years she ran a discussion group for postgraduates and researchers. She is interested in the nexus between modern theories of style and aesthetic-philosophical ideas across different cultures.
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