#Pasolini 100

[queerographies]

[Tormento presenta: Pasolini speciale. Segni senza compromessi][AA. VV.]

Otto autori e autrici, sette graphic novel dedicate alla figura e alle opere di Pier Paolo Pasolini a 10(1) anni dalla sua nascita.

Pier Paolo Pasolini, nato nel 1922 e ucciso nel 1975, è stato una figura di spicco del Novecento. Quanto, della sua opera, della sua vita ancora ci interroga, disturba, commuove? Spano e DayDreaming Project immaginano, chiedono: ad alcuni artisti/fumettisti/grafici vari racconti per un volume e una mostra. E Ralli spinge tutto più in là, propone: se imbastissimo un «Pasolini speciale» di una…

[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

[fatehbaz]

going through some recent essays from e-flux Journal on intersections of gender and trans-ness with colonialism and imperial imaginaries (of music, architecture, geography). all can be read online:

"Hija de Perra: Writings from a Poor, Aspirational, Sudaca, Third World Perspective" by Julia Eilers Smitth (Journal Issue #140, November 2023)

"Anarcho-Ecstasy: Options for an Afri-Queer Becoming" by KJ Abudu (Journal Issue #139, October 2023)

"Sadistic Chola Manifesto" by Olga Rodriguez-Ulloa (Journal Issue #137, June 2023)

"Reluctantly Queer" by Akosua Adoma Owusu and Kwame Edwin Otu (Journal Issue #137, June 2023)

"Don't Take It Away: BlackFem Voices in Electronic Dance Music" by Alexander Ghedi Weheliye (theme issue "Black Rave", Journal Issue #132, December 2022)

"Dark Banjee Aesthetic: Hearing a Queer-of-Color Archive within Club Music" by Blair Black (theme issue "Black Rave", Journal Issue #132, December 2022)

"A Whale Unbothered: Theorizing the Ecosystem of the Ballroom Scene" by Julian Kevon Glover (theme issue "Black Rave", Journal Issue #132, December 2022)

"Editorial: Black Rave" by madison moore and McKenzie Wark (December 2022)

"Pasolini and the Queer Revolution in Beirut" by Raed Rafei (Journal Issue #126, April 2022)

"Inappropriate Gestures: Vogue in Three Acts of Appropriation" by Sabel Gavaldon (Journal Issue #122, November 2021)

"Taking the Fiction Out of Science Fiction: A Conversation about Indigenous Futurisms" by Grace Dillon and Pedro Neves Marques (Journal Issue #120, September 2021)

"Editorial: trans femme aesthetics" by McKenzie Wark (Journal Issue #117, April 2021)

"The Cis Gaze and Its Others (for Shola)" by McKenzie Wark (Journal Issue #117, April 2021)

"Our Own Words: Fem & Trans, Past & Future" by Rosza Daniel Lang/Levitsky (Journal Issue #117, April 2021)

"Post-genitalist Fantasies / Temporalities of Latin American Trans Art" by Kira Xonorika (Journal Issue #117, April 2021)

"S/pacific Islands: Some Reflections on Identity and Art in Contemporary Oceania" by Greg Dvorak (Journal Issue #112, October 2020)

"Capitalocene, Waste, Race, and Gender" by Françoise Vergès (Journal Issue #100, May 2019)

"Non-Aligned Extinctions: Slavery, Neo-Orientalism, and Queerness" by Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic (Journal Issue #97, February 2019)

[rgr-pop]

My goal for the year was to watch & log 100 movies. Shorts count, didn't matter whether I had seen them before, but they can only count once for the year. I logged 117!

First & last watched: Ken Russell's Women in Love (1969)--the reason I cared about movies so much this year, just an obvious life-changer for me--and Ken Russell's The Rainbow (1989)--Westlin's suggestion for the perfect round out. Surprised to be surprised by how good it was. Great films! Totally on the program! Questions to this day unanswered! Let's go!

Shorts (everything short of Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story) watched: 16

Favorite shorts: Nuit et Brouillard (Alain Resnais, 1956) (decided this year one of my all-time favorite films); Un Chant d'Amour (Jean Genet, 1950); Fireworks (Kenneth Anger, 1947)

Next year my shorts watching will be more programmatic

Films I watched twice in 2023: Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes, 1987) (another film I realized this year obviously belongs in my top ten--more specifically I decided finally that this is my favorite non-Texas Chain Saw film); Beau is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023); The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick, 1993)

By decade: Before 1900: 0 1900 - 1910: 1 1910 - 1919: 1 1920 - 1929: 1 bro come ON what the FUCK 1930 - 1939: 1 im literally evil 1940 - 1949: 7 1950 - 1959: 3 1960 - 1969: 24 1970 - 1979: 14 1980 - 1989: 16 1990 - 1999: 17 2000 - 2009: 13 2010 - 2019: 9 2020 - 2023: 10

By nation/language roughly: uk/english: 6 us/english: 66 canada/english: 6 france/french: 10 italy/italian: 4 italy/france/french: 1 italy/english: 1 czechoslovakia/czech: 5 palestine/arabic: 3 soviet/russian: 2 russia/russian: 1 austria/german: 1 austria/french: 1 spain/spanish: 1 japan/japanese: 1 poland/yiddish: 1 poland/polish: 1 senegal/wolof: 1 brazil/portuguese: 1 sweden/swedish: 1 eur/farsi: 1 south africa/afrikaans: 1

numbers not adding up there but w/e

By director: Not sure if this is surprising or totally unsurprising, but in spite of my auteurial talk (and all the thematic/completionist plans I like to make), I very rarely watched more than two movies by the same director. I can't decide how I feel about this, nor do I know how to proceed this year given that my goal is to discover who my top five directors might actually be. How do you go about investigating that?

Overwhelmingly the director I watched the most was Adrian Lyne, with five films. I have a few more things to work on but I'm close to done with my shakedown/theory. Neither my favorite director nor favorite guy, I would say I probably 'enjoy' and 'personally get more out of watching' his films more than most. In second place, I watched three Kenneth Anger films--all shorts of course. I watched two films each by the following directors: Ken Russell, David Cronenberg, Stanley Kubrick, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Paul Schrader, Bernardo Bertolucci, Ti West, Todd Haynes, Michael Haneke, Jan Švankmajer (both shorts), and Billy Wilder (one of which being a war department documentary short).

I have mixed feelings about this approach (let me watch man movies if i I want to!) but a quick skim suggests I watched about 15 films directed by women (12%)--lower than expected and probably low for me typically. I always have a romance habit on the backburner so it's never hard for me to watch a lot of movies by women, but obviously my focus on revered directors I never previously wanted to spend time on has had an impact here, meaning I should make an effort with Great women directors in 2024 to keep that in check. I will also say that I specifically recall having a hard time getting my hands on things I wanted to watch by women in a few different cases, including by Great women directors (Barbara Hammer and Akerman), and especially also soviet women directors. There's an overlap here with difficulty accessing short films!

I'm not an active or thoughtful starrer, but these are the films I watched in 2023 that I've given five stars to:

Women in Love (Ken Russell, 1969) (upgraded from four after the year of appreciating it) Mandabi (Ousmane Sembène, 1968) Crash (David Cronenberg, 1996) Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes, 1987) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974) Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1956) Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975) (demoted Teorema [1968] to four stars to prevent Salo is A Perfect Film deflation) Un Chant d'Amour (Jean Genet, 1950)

Least favorite films watched in 2023: Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi, 2019), Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023), All My Good Countrymen (Vojtěch Jasný, 1968), Zahrada (Jan Švankmajer, 1968), the one streaming true crime doc I watched that I then had to log (will not repeat in 2024)

Loved/treats for me: Barry Lyndon, Crossing Delancey, Unfaithful, The Cremator, The Night Porter, Cabaret, talking to people about Funny Games and realizing I love it more than I think I do

Recommended for the romance girls as a thank you for the good romance you have recommended me: Habibi (Susan Youssef, 2011)

Most incredible movie experience of the year by miles and I can only hope 2024 has something this good to offer: House of 1000 Corpses (Rob Zombie, 2003) anniversary screening my birthweek

The otherwise defining film of 2023 for me: Hostel (Eli Roth, 2005)

Onward! Back to work! On the Terror and Violence line! The Family is out there, comfortable, in relative peace…

[arcobalengo]

🇮🇹📟 A volte il polso della società si riesce a sentirlo meglio leggendo piccoli fatti di cronaca piuttosto che leggendo o ascoltando poderose e dottissime elucubrazioni di qualche luminare.

In un ridente comune del Polesine, Giavone, qualcuno, nottetempo, s'è rubato un dosso artificiale posto dal comune per rallentare la marcia delle automobili. Sì avete capito bene, si sono presi il dosso. Dov'è la morale? Semplice, la gente s'è rotta i coglioni. Si è rotta i co-glio-ni. Si è rotta i coglioni di continue prescrizioni, di continuo moralismo: «Rallenta l'automobile!», «Vai a 30/h!» ma «paga il debito per le infrastrutture moderne che abbiamo costruito per farti andare più veloce ed essere all'altezza delle sfide del mondo», e poi ancora «Mangia insetti, perchè le mucche scorreggiano e producono CO2». Non parliamo poi sulla sovranità sul nostro corpo che si sono presi: «Fai la punturina se non non lavori e non esci manco di casa...» Parliamo poi delle norme ambientali? Eccoci: « Metti il cappotto termico alla casa, se no, non l'affitti e non la vendi (ma continui a pagarci le tasse!). E se tu ritieni di essere vessato perchè imponi ad un sardo e a un siciliano norme finlandesi non ce ne frega nulla...è così e basta!».

E poi pensiamo agli strumenti pervasivi di controllo: Autovelox, telecamere anche dotate di strumenti di IA per il riconoscimento facciale ecc. Spesso si tratta di strumenti imposti - non si capisce a quale titoli - da semplici assessori e sindaci....

Insomma, un ginepraio di norme vessatorie, costosissime, contradditorie, spesso lesive non solo del buon senso, della stabilità economica di chi le subisce, ma proprio della dignità della persona.

Ed è proprio qui il punto: nel triveneto (come il altre parti d'Europa a partire dall'Inghilterra) stanno nascendo movimenti di protesta: rubano i dossi, abbattono i pali delle telecamere che vengono poi distrutte a martellate (qui sta il punto, se ci si limita ad abbattere il palo che costa 100 euro e si lascia la telecamera intatta che è costosissima la rimontano su un altro palo).

Ecco, io condanno fermamente questo modo di agire. No alla violenza, dobbiamo essere bravi a votare (se votiamo dei malfattori che ci vessano è perchè anche noi siamo in fondo malfattori nel nostro piccolo). Non bisogna danneggiare i beni dello Stato! Bisogna essere ligi al rispetto delle leggi anche quando sbagliate e vessatorie fino all'estremo sacrificio, quello di essere vessati come nel film Salò di Pasolini.

Mi raccomando, non rubate i dossi, non abbattete i pali delle telecamere (e soprattutto non rompete la costosa telecamera), non manomettete gli autovelox. Mi raccomando, pieno rispetto delle regole e piena fiducia nella magistratura e in "tuttecose" come dicono a Napoli ❤️

Giuseppe Masala

[cicerenella]

i went through your whole romano tag while listening to il canto delle lavandaie del vomero and now i’m picturing your design of him singing this…maybe while antonio plays the guitar 🥺 your take on him is so layered and charming, i love him. do you think he’d like the film “il decamerone”? (it’s where i first heard this song)

WOAH IL CANTO DELLE LAVANDAIE?? I thought nobody knew it outside of here! you got my sincere admiration and great choice of music! it is the oldest neapolitan folk song, from the XIII century circa ;)

and about the film "il decamerone" (the one from Pier Paolo Pasolini right?), I think Romano would love it! I see him as a big cinema/theatre fan, since many famous actors (take Sophia Loren or Massimo Troisi) come from his "territories". Moreover, the decameron would be up in his list. The beautiful sceneries of his cities along with Boccaccio's novelle would REALLY get his attention. It might be a bit "old fashioned" with a more rudimental production, but he loves it either way!

to end this answer, I will say that Antonio 100% accompanies with an instrument if Romano ever sings "Il canto delle Lavandaie" or other folkloristic songs of his. Did you know that the neapolitan dialect is full of hispanic terms? there's a lot of contamination in Southern culture from the spanish domain <33

[lonesomedreamereccentriclover]

Pasolini 101

One of the most original and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century, Italian polymath Pier Paolo Pasolini embodied a multitude of often seemingly contradictory ideologies and identities—and he expressed them all in his provocative, lyrical, and indelible films. Relentlessly concerned with society’s downtrodden and marginalized, he elevated pimps, hustlers, sex workers, and vagabonds to the realm of saints, while depicting actual saints with a radical earthiness. Traversing the sacred and the profane, the ancient and the modern, the mythic and the personal, the nine uncompromising, often scandal-inciting features he made in the 1960s still stand—on this, the 101st anniversary of his birth—as a monument to his daring vision of cinema as a form of resistance.

SPECIAL FEATURES

New 4K digital restorations of seven films and 2K digital restorations of Teorema and Medea, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks

Two shorts made by director Pier Paolo Pasolini for anthology films: La ricotta (1963) and The Sequence of the Paper Flower (1969)

Two documentaries made by Pasolini during his travels

New program on Pasolini’s visual style as told through his personal writing, narrated by actor Tilda Swinton and writer Rachel Kushner

Audio commentaries on Accattone and Teorema

Documentaries on Pasolini’s life and career featuring archival interviews with the director and his close collaborators

Episode from 1966 of the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps

Interviews with filmmakers and scholars

Trailers

New English subtitle translations

PLUS: Deluxe packaging, including a 100-page book featuring an essay and notes on the films by critic James Quandt, and writings and drawings by Pasolini

New cover by Eric Skillman

[891movies]

500 to go (!!!)

The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964, dir. Pier Paoli Pasolini): Given how radical and anti-establishment this movie feels, it's kind of amazing to me that every line of dialogue is taken directly from the gospel.

Winchester '73 (1950, dir. Anthony Mann): This is the history of the US in microcosm. Was this intentional on part of the filmmakers? I don't know but it sure works.

Throne of Blood (1957, dir. Akira Kurosawa): Best Shakespeare adaptation I've seen since 10 Things I Hate About You. Toshirô Mifune gives such a beautifully unhinged performance, even if the rest of the film didn't match up (it does!), it would still make it a 10/10.

Amour (2012, dir. Michael Haneke): Heartbreaking in such a straightforward, understated way. There's no dramatics, no sentimentality, just a devastating scenario shown as true-to-life as possible on film.

Hugo (2011, dir. Martin Scorsese): I'm not normally a fan of this type of magical realism 2000s/2010s Hollywood children's film (highly specific genre but if you know, you know). The subject matter and the deft hands of Scorsese made it hit for me, though, and I was legitimately tearing up by the end.

Shame (2011, dir. Steve McQueen): Spent so much of this movie worried that Fassbinder was gonna try to fuck his sister. Hey, I've been burned before!

Skyfall (2012, dir. Sam Mendes): I was mostly entertained throughout, give or take a couple of sour notes (the treatment of Séverine was pretty heinous ngl), but I was also ready for it to wind down around the 100 minute mark. And then it kept going for another 40 minutes! I do prefer Daniel Craig to Sean Connery but if we're going there then I also prefer Benoit Blanc to James Bond.

Phantom Thread (2017, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson): A meticulously beautiful film, in a way that truly complements the narrative.

[brutalistemple]

I wasn't expecting to adore Pasolini's Medea as much as I did. Everything from the dreamy plot to costumes, sets and soundtrack, but especially the depiction of the 'barbaric' Colchis' religion. I'm drawn to the shamanic and asiatic facets of the Hellenistic cults and seeing them portrayed with such audacity even if not 100% historically accurate made me happy. And also Maria ffs.

[delectablywaywardbeard-blog]

Ferrara omaggia Giovanna Bemporad a 100 anni dalla nascita

Sarà intitolata a Giovanna Bemporad, poetessa e traduttrice ferrarese di origini ebraiche, amica di Pasolini, la nuova Darsena di Ferrara: il 19 dicembre vi sarà apposta una targa alla memoria alla presenza del sottosegretario alla Cultura Vittorio Sgarbi, mentre la sera precedente al Teatro Comunale si terrà lo spettacolo “Giovanna Bemporad: una luce nella notte”, con Vittorio Sgarbi,…

[lamilanomagazine]

100 nuovi alberi al giardino Pier Paolo Pasolini: salgono così a 1.100 quelli piantati nei parchi pubblici nell'ultimo anno

100 nuovi alberi al giardino Pier Paolo Pasolini: salgono così a 1.100 quelli piantati nei parchi pubblici nell'ultimo anno. BolognaIn questi giorni sono in corso i lavori di forestazione al Giardino Pier Paolo Pasolini, dove vengono messi a dimora 100 alberi autoctoni (aceri campestri, olmi, carpini, catalpe, ciliegi, ornielli, frassini, tigli, salici bianchi e pioppi bianchi). L'intervento fa parte di un progetto più ampio realizzato in sei differenti parchi pubblici dove in totale sono stati piantati 1.100 alberi già formati (con una circonferenza del tronco di circa 18-20 cm), creando così aree densamente alberate in grado di: -contribuire alla regolazione del microclima, soprattutto grazie alla calmierizzazione dei fenomeni estremi di calore estivo, ma anche della qualità dell'aria attraverso il fitorimedio degli inquinanti gassosi e del ciclo dell'acqua; -rendere gli spazi pubblici interessati più fruibili e vivibili anche nel periodo estivo, grazie al miglioramento del comfort termico delle persone garantito dell'ombreggiamento e al raffrescamento generato da coperture vegetali di tipo forestale. Il progetto, del valore di circa 1 milione di euro, fu finanziato con fondi dell'allora Ministero della Transizione Ecologica poi rinominato dell'Ambiente e della Sicurezza Energetica. Oltre alla piantagione degli alberi, le spese comprendono la realizzazione dell'impianto di irrigazione e opere di manutenzione per 7 anni.   Le altre aree che sono state oggetto della forestazione sono: parco dell'ex Cava Bruschetti (Borgo Panigale - Reno): 400 alberi parco di via Bragaglia (Borgo Panigale - Reno): 200 alberi parco delle Artiste (Borgo Panigale – Reno): 200 alberi parco dell'ex area ortiva di Villa Contri (Borgo Panigale - Reno) 100 alberi parco delle Aquile Randagie (Savena) 100 alberi Come ogni anno la Festa degli alberi è l'occasione per piantare nuovi esemplari nei giardini scolastici con il coinvolgimento degli alunni. Domani martedì 21 novembre alle 11 l'assessore alla Scuola Daniele Ara sarà alla scuola dell'infanzia Fantini dove sarà piantato un albero di siliquastro. Il Comune, in collaborazione con Fondazione Villa Ghigi e il patrocinio dell'Associazione Italiana Pubblici Giardini, fino al 2 dicembre propone una serie di attività dedicate soprattutto ai bambini e alle famiglie, ma anche ai cittadini, ai professionisti del settore e alle imprese del territorio. Tutti gli appuntamenti sono centrati sull'albero e il contributo che le piante possono offrire nell'ambito delle mitigazioni ambientali. Si parlerà anche di crisi climatica e dei riverberi che ha sulla vita delle piante. Sabato 25 dalle 9:45 alle 13, al Parco di Villa Cassarini, appuntamento con "Bologna è i suoi alberi", una giornata con percorsi didattici e interattivi alla scoperta degli alberi. Per iscrizioni a questo linka questo link.... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

[queerographies]

[Passione e ideologia][Pier Paolo Pasolini]

Nelle pagine acute e originali di "Passione e ideologia" di Pier Paolo Pasolini emerge sempre, in filigrana, il vissuto dell’autore.

Comparso per la prima volta nel 1960, Passione e ideologia raccoglie la produzione critica della lunga e feconda stagione degli anni Cinquanta di Pier Paolo Pasolini, recuperando in particolare l’esperienza della rivista «Officina». Al centro del volume vi sono due ampie panoramiche dedicate rispettivamente alla poesia dialettale e alla poesia popolare italiana; nella seconda parte, spiccano…

[italian-lit-tournament]

Italian Literature Tournament Masterpost: rules and final list of partecipants!

The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (forth episode) - Sandro Botticelli. Do you see how much they're happy after having experienced the horrors? You'll be like them from monday, yay!

👉 After almost three months from the first post, the first edition of the Italian Lit(🔥)erature Tournament is about to start Monday 21 October!

👉 The rules will be presented in this masterpost with the final list of authors under the cut.

👉 We arrived at 96 authors partecipants: actually, between the original list and the new names added with this poll (closed yesterday, October 10th at 14,45 CET), the number of names exceeded quota 100, so I had to remove some of them for time matters and to achieve a number divisible by 2, if not by 16, the exact amount which is possible to create a challenge of this type. To make this, without removing the names proposed on the google fom (I accepted all of them, considering that if they have been proposed it means that a least they can achieve one vote) and triying to keep the male/female -nothern/southern authors balance, I removed many of the philosophers/essayists names (lefting only the ones from the google form, as I have specified). It's been a painful choice but, as I already wrote, it's caused by time and organizational matters. If the next year a new edition of this challenge will succeed, I could organize different mini bracket each for century or historical era (like for example: Best Medieval Italian Lit Act, Best Renaissance, Best 20th Century, Best Playwriter, etc), so there will be more space for more authors who didn't manage to being part of this challenge.

👉 The combinations for the first round, which will start Monday 21, is already created and will be published by Monday 14th. At each round start, the combination list will be fixed as the first post with the links to the surveys, so anyone who wants to reach a specify author to vote can do it without much issues. In any case, any post regarding a partecipant will be tagged under it's name.

👉 The list with the 96 names is under the cut, organized with the surnames in alphabetical order. To create the various combinations, I chose the most basic of the software (usually I use excel, but on my pc sometimes it goes down and to manage 96 variables is hard, at least I want to make it with a simple tool). For the first three rounds, due to the great number of partecipants, the combinations will be sorted randomly each time: by the fourth round, it will be created the semi-final bracked. Always due to the large number, the final round will not have two partecipants, but three. I already thought how to organize it and make it to the final winner so don't worry, but for now it's a spoiler 🤫

Dante Alighieri

Sibilla Aleramo

Vittorio Alfieri

Cecco Angiolieri

Pietro Aretino

Ludovico Ariosto

Cletto Arrighi

Matteo Bandello

Anna Banti

Giambattista Basile

Giorgio Bassani

Pietro Bembo

Luciano Bianciardi

Matteo Maria Boiardo

Giovanni Boccaccio

Giordano Bruno

Dino Buzzati

Italo Calvino

Luigi Capuana

Andrea Camilleri

Giosuè Carducci

Carlo Cassola

Guido Cavalcanti

Carlo Collodi

Vittoria Colonna

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Giacomo da Lentini

Tullia d'Aragona

Alba de Céspedes

Cielo (Ciullo) d'Alcamo

Jacopone da Todi

Edoardo De Filippo

Federico de Roberto

Antonio Fogazzaro

Grazia Deledda

Umberto Eco

Beppe Fenoglio

Dario Fo

Ennio Flaiano

Ugo Foscolo

(Carlo) Fruttero & (Franco) Lucentini

Veronica Franco

Carlo Emilio Gadda

Natalia Ginzburg

Carlo Goldoni

Guido Gozzano

Carlo Gozzi

Francesco Guicciardini

Tommaso Landolfi

Giacomo Leopardi

Carlo Levi

Primo Levi

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

Giorgio Scerbanenco

Leonardo Sciascia

Matilde Serao

Gaspara Stampa

Mario Rigoni Stern

Italo Svevo

Antonio Tabucchi

Elena Cassandra Tarabotti

Igino Ugo Tarchetti

Torquato Tasso

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Pier Vittorio Tondelli

Sebastiano Vassalli

Giovanni Verga

Renata Viganò

Elio Vittorini

Giuseppe Ungaretti

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I nuovi appuntamenti di Roma Culture 2023 Dal 25 al 31 gennaio Il programma degli eventi è disponibile su culture.roma.it, sui canali FB e IG @cultureroma, TW culture_roma e con #CultureRoma #Pasolini100Roma #memoriagenerafuturo2023 In partenza una nuova settimana di Roma Culture con le iniziative proposte dalle istituzioni culturali cittadine e con la programmazione di PPP 100 - Roma racconta Pasolini, dedicata alla celebrazione del centenario pasoliniano. Nel corso di questa settimana, di particolare interesse, inoltre, gli appuntamenti di Memoria genera Futuro, il calendario di eventi di Roma Capitale per celebrare il Giorno della Memoria 2023. https://www.fashionluxury.info/it/

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Ro.Go.Pa.G. Pier Paolo Pasolini

Ro.Go.Pa.G. Pier Paolo Pasolini

Ro.Go.Pa.G. Pier Paolo Pasolini Ro.Go.Pa.G. Pier Paolo Pasolini 100 anni fa a Bologna nasceva Pier Paolo Pasolini, per onorare il grande regista ho pensato di creare una ricetta ispirata al film Ro.Go.Pa.G.. Il film del 1963 diviso in quattro episodi, il cui titolo è una sigla che identifica i registi dei quattro segmenti: Rossellini, Godard, Pasolini e Gregoretti. L’episodio diretto da Pasolini…

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NOTICIAS I MUSICA I RT @GabyRuizMx: 100 años del natalicio de PIER PAOLO PASOLINI (1922-1975), la @cinemateca_ec presenta: PROVOCACIÓN Y DESAFÍO del 28 nov - 3 dic. Como pieza invitada se estrena QUADERNI (Fabiano Kueva, 2022) el 30 nov a las 15h00 @CasadelaCultura INFO: https://t.co/jhPywbXqYv https://t.co/bMmFsbrt7H