Accounts by big names in Literature
Literature returns to its original vocation: narrative entrusted to a voice, as in ancient Greece and as in the literary cafés of the past, where writers exchanged ideas about novels and poetry. During this second appointment with Italian literature, the great critic and scholar Pietro Citati will illustrate a detailed analysis, with attention to every detail, on the fascinating life of Giacomo Leopardi, literary genius and philosopher, starting with his difficult childhood to the periods spent in Bologna, Florence and Naples. From L’Infinito to Operette morali, from Zibaldone to La Ginestra: a multifaceted work, fruit of a mind with infinite vital strength reversed into suffering.
Pietro Citati, a particularly versatile writer, engaged himself successfully in fiction, literary essay writing and biographies of great personalities, especially intellectuals, among which an interesting essay on the life of Giacomo Leopardi, published by Mondadori. Several of his works are also dedicated to the myths of ancient peoples and Greek linguistic and literary heritage (Homer, above all), without disdaining writers like Francis Scott Fitzgerald or philosophical-religious ideologies like Hermeticism.