#Maria bellonci

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Paolo Di Paolo & Maria Bellonci, with the fan, Elsa Morante, Giorgio Bassani, Palma Bucarelli

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Basta che sia una bugia consistente

Il romanzo storico è quello che ho studiato e su cui mi sono arrovellata di più negli ultimi anni. Del romanzo storico mi interessa come l’invenzione narrativa si relazioni ai documenti che a loro volta hanno in sé una variabile legata a un’involontaria o volontaria menzogna. Chi li ha scritti è figlio del suo tempo, si sarà sicuramente misurato con le fake news della sua epoca, avrà fatto i…

[borgialucrezia]

Hello there!

I've been wanting to read books on the Borgia family for a while, and I feel like you're the correct person to ask about this. Do you have any recommendations?

hiii! thank you for your question :) i often talk about sarah dunant as the best historical fiction writer about the borgia family because of how impressively she depicted their characters and gave them nuance and justice without hyping anyone at the expense of others (fascinating character intros, less yassificated portrayal of cesare borgia, and without the extremely unfair resorting to simplifying and taking personal jabs at juan borgia just for the sake of it) in her novel 'blood and beauty'. it also includes groundbreaking twists. now, i want to talk about emma lucas as the best biographer of the borgias. her work is a solid read, very unbiased without any manipulation of the letters about/between the siblings to push certain narratives (hello sarah bradford!!), well-researched, sheds light on the family's complex relationships and their rise to power, and is highly sympathetic to all of them. you won't be disappointed!!

[italian-lit-tournament]

The participating authors for the Italian Lit(erature) Tournament: the general list + a google form to add other proposals

Podesti Francesco - Torquato Tasso reading Jerusalem Delivered to the Estensi court

The start of the Italian Lit(erature) Tournament (first edition) is getting closer, but first I want to post the general list of the authors partecipants.

The principal issue is that every literary canon is constantly changing, with more critical studies over the years. I've thought about it, read and searched, and the solution I found has two parts:

I will take the principal authors from this list, which in turn is based from the studies of Gianfranco Contini and Asor Rosa. The list is too long and many names are only chronicles and essayists, so I'll chose the principal ones, trying to balance between north/south Italy and male/female authors (taking into account that many authors that we study are men). As you will see below under the cut, the list is already pretty long, doing some math the challenge will be 2/3 months long.

Still, I recognise that this isn't 100% unbiased and fair, so I opened a free and quick google form when you can add a maximum of two authors that you don't see in the list. This considerable limit is to avoid having too many names - if in some answers I see more than 2 names, I'll take into account only the first 2 listed.

IMPORTANT! 👇

After much thoughts, I also chose to don't include living authors or authors death only recently (before January 2023). The reason is simply to avoid potential issues in the community, like bashing between fandom or admirers of some specific author, or going too far like offending some people near the author still alive or recently deceased. Maybe if this tournament will end well, a second edition could be made next year and maybe with the addition of living authors! (I'm already thinking to do an italian or european cinema tournament in the future but this is still in the draft).

Under the cut, you will find the list of the authors already part of the challenge, name-surname with the surname in alphabetical order. If you don't see a name that you want to see, use the form to add it!

edit: I added the ones from the surbey so far, all in italics. There are names that have been sent but already on the list.

Dante Alighieri

Sibilla Aleramo

Vittorio Alfieri

Cecco Angiolieri

Pietro Aretino

Ludovico Ariosto

Matteo Bandello

Anna Banti

Giambattista Basile

Giorgio Bassani

Cesare Beccaria

Maria Bellonci

Pietro Bembo

Matteo Maria Boiardo

Giovanni Boccaccio

Giordano Bruno

Dino Buzzati

Italo Calvino

Andrea Camilleri

Giosuè Carducci

Guido Cavalcanti

Carlo Collodi

Vittoria Colonna

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Giacomo da Lentini

Caterina da Siena

Alba de Céspedes

Cielo (Ciullo) d'Alcamo

Edoardo De Filippo

Federico de Roberto

Grazia Deledda

Umberto Eco

Beppe Fenoglio

Marsilio Ficino

Dario Fo

Ugo Foscolo

Veronica Franco

Carlo Emilio Gadda

Natalia Ginzburg

Carlo Goldoni

Antonio Gramsci

Francesco Guicciardini

Tommaso Landolfi

Giacomo Leopardi

Carlo Levi

Primo Levi

Carla Lonzi

Niccolò Machiavelli

Alessandro Manzoni

Giovanbattista Marino

Giovanni Meli

Pietro Metastasio

Eugenio Montale

Elsa Morante

Alberto Moravia

Anna Maria Ortese

Giuseppe Parini

Goffredo Parise

Giovanni Pascoli

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cesare Pavese

Francesco Petrarca

Luigi Pirandello

Angelo Poliziano

Luigi Pulci

Salvator Quasimodo

Gianni Rodari

Lalla Romano

Amelia Rosselli

Umberto Saba

Emilio Salgari

Jacopo Sannazaro

Goliarda Sapienza

Leonardo Sciascia

Matilde Serao

Gaspara Stampa

Mario Rigoni Stern

Italo Svevo

Antonio Tabucchi

Torquato Tasso

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Pier Vittorio Tondelli

Giovanni Verga

Giambattista Vico

Renata Viganò

Elio Vittorini

Giuseppe Ungaretti

[girlpetrarca]

3 and 8 for the book asks? 🧚

3. What were your top five books of the year?

Rinascimento privato by Maria Bellonci

I sette pilastri della saggezza by T. E. Lawrence

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

La stanza di Giovanni by James Baldwin

Il maestro e Margherita by Michail Bulgakov

8. Did you meet any of your reading goals? Which ones?

Sort of.. I wanted to start reading in French, but I'm not at that level yet, but I did manage to read in Latin semi regularly, which was a very important goal of mine. I also wanted to finish the Aubrey and Maturin series, I didn't, but I'm happy I managed to reach book n.7

[cresy]

Premio Strega 2024, vince Donatella Di Pietrantonio con “L’età fragile”

LIBRI/PREMIO STREGA Il Premio Strega 2024 – promosso da Fondazione Maria e Goffredo Bellonci e Liquore Strega (con il sostegno di Roma Capitale, Camera di Commercio di Roma, in collaborazione con BPER Banca), giunge alla serata finale, ospitata, come di consueto, dal Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia di Roma, dal 1953 sede dell’atto conclusivo del riconoscimento letterario. E a vincere…

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Un documentario su Maria Bellonci

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Il milione. Scritto in italiano da Maria Bellonci

Nel 1271 il giovanissimo Marco Polo partì da Venezia per la Cina, dove divenne uomo di fiducia dell’imperatore del Catai. Per lui viaggiò attraverso l’Asia, terra piena di storie e leggende. Quando, vent’anni dopo, fece ritorno in Europa, venne catturato dai Genovesi, e in carcere conobbe il poeta Rustichello da Pisa, cui dettò il resoconto dei suoi viaggi. Nacque così “Il Milione”, un’opera in…

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La dozzina del Premio Strega: rivelati i finalisti della 78ª edizione Nella suggestiva cornice della Camera d... #dozzina #premiostrega https://agrpress.it/la-dozzina-del-premio-strega-rivelati-i-finalisti-della-78a-edizione/?feed_id=4457&_unique_id=66144166460bb

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Strega Giovani, vince Ada d'Adamo con Come d'aria

(ANSA) – NAPOLI, 06 GIU – Ada d’Adamo, con il romanzo “Come d’aria” (Elliot), è la vincitrice della decima edizione del Premio Strega Giovani, promosso dalla Fondazione Maria e Goffredo Bellonci e da Strega Alberti con il contributo della Camera di Commercio di Roma e in collaborazione con BPER Banca, Media Partner Rai, sponsor tecnico IBS.it. La vincitrice è stata annunciata da Stefano…

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Ph. Federico Garolla, Maria Bellonci

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“Roma andava vaporando in una polvere rosea, di sera, mentre la campana del Campidoglio commentava ed esaltava i fasti borgiani.”

“Rome was steaming in a rosy dust in the evening, while the bell of the Capitol commented and exalted the Borgian splendor.”

Lucrezia Borgia par Maria Bellonci,1929

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"She was beautiful, sophisticated, and had a free-spirited nature that rejected superstition." — Pietro Bembo's description of Lucrezia Borgia in a letter, included in the book 'The Life and Times of Lucrezia Borgia' (by Maria Bellonci)

[italian-lit-tournament]

The participating authors for the Italian Lit(erature) Tournament: the general list WITH the new ADDITIONS + the link to the google form to add the last proposals

John William Waterhouse - The Decameron

The Italian 🔥Lit(erature) Tournament is approaching and new names have been submitted in addition to the ones from the original list! This post is only to remember that the google form will remail open for a while to add the last proposals, plus other few details 👇

You can find the first part of the rules here and link to the survey to add new names here!

Under the cut you'll find the usual list but with the addition of the names from the survey so far, all in italics. Other names that have been submitted but already present on the first list remain in a regular font.

There are 13 new names, of the 18 submitted (5 of them already present as written above).

Dante Alighieri

Sibilla Aleramo

Vittorio Alfieri

Cecco Angiolieri

Pietro Aretino

Ludovico Ariosto

Cletto Arrighi

Matteo Bandello

Anna Banti

Giambattista Basile

Giorgio Bassani

Maria Bellonci

Pietro Bembo

Matteo Maria Boiardo

Giovanni Boccaccio

Giordano Bruno

Dino Buzzati

Italo Calvino

Luigi Capuana

Andrea Camilleri

Giosuè Carducci

Guido Cavalcanti

Fausta Cialente

Carlo Collodi

Vittoria Colonna

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Giacomo da Lentini

Tullia d'Aragona

Alba de Céspedes

Cielo (Ciullo) d'Alcamo

Jacopone da Todi

Federico de Roberto

Edoardo De Filippo

Antonio Fogazzaro

Grazia Deledda

Umberto Eco

Beppe Fenoglio

Dario Fo

Marsilio Ficino

Ennio Flaiano

Ugo Foscolo

Fruttero & Lucentini

Veronica Franco

Carlo Emilio Gadda

Natalia Ginzburg

Carlo Goldoni

Guido Gozzano

Carlo Gozzi

Amelia Guglielmetti

Francesco Guicciardini

Tommaso Landolfi

Giacomo Leopardi

Carlo Levi

Primo Levi

Carla Lonzi

Niccolò Machiavelli

Alessandro Manzoni

Giovanbattista Marino

Giovanni Meli

Alda Merini

Pietro Metastasio

Eugenio Montale

Elsa Morante

Alberto Moravia

Anna Maria Ortese

Giuseppe Parini

Goffredo Parise

Giovanni Pascoli

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cesare Pavese

Francesco Petrarca

Luigi Pirandello

Angelo Poliziano

Luigi Pulci

Salvator Quasimodo

Gianni Rodari

Lalla Romano

Amelia Rosselli

Umberto Saba

Emilio Salgari

Jacopo Sannazaro

Goliarda Sapienza

Leonardo Sciascia

Matilde Serao

Gaspara Stampa

Mario Rigoni Stern

Italo Svevo

Antonio Tabucchi

Igino Ugo Tarchetti

Torquato Tasso

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Pier Vittorio Tondelli

Giovanni Verga

Renata Viganò

Elio Vittorini

Giuseppe Ungaretti

[girlpetrarca]

1, 3 and 12?

1. How many books did you read this year?

89 (a frankly obscene amount, but I stopped watching tv series and started reading poetry)

3. What were your top five books of the year?

Rinascimento privato by Maria Bellonci

I sette pilastri della saggezza by T. E. Lawrence

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

La stanza di Giovanni by James Baldwin

Il maestro e margherita by Michail Bulgakov

Honorary Mentions to:

Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures by Sahar Amer

The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography by Angela Carter

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

12. Any books that disappointed you?

Le nuove eroidi, a retelling of Ovid's Heroides. I don't usually read retellings, but I was given this book as a gift and it intrigued me. It is true that the individual stories are written by different authors, but there is no coherent overall plan, they are different works that only take into account the myth and not Ovid's poetry (and some of them do not even work as retellings of the myth in question). Some stories were nice at best, others did not convince me. I did not have high expectations, but I still expected better.