La lettura

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.

Reading from Italo Calvino's 1957 novel "The Baron in the Trees" courtesy of Fabrizia Di Francesco, mistress 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.Special thanks to my mother-in-law Paola Medri, who read it in grace.