#de cespedes

[boldlymagnificentperson]

Libri: la classifica del Tempo Ritrovato di Milano

[cinematic-literature]

L'amica geniale S04E07 (Il ritorno)

Book title

Dalla parte di lei (1949) by Alba De Céspedes

L'invenzione maschile by Elena Greco

[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

[luegootravez]

Morena Baccarin by © Hunter & Gatti

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Pablo de Céspedes (Spanish, 1538-1608) Christ's Descent into Limbo, ca.1600 Newfields In this painting by the artist-theorist Pablo de Céspedes, the radiant, white-robed figure of Christ descends into hell to liberate the souls of the righteous. Behind him, Adam and Eve represent humankind, its origins, fall, and salvation. The idealized physical beauty of these figures signifies their restoration to a state of perfection. Significantly, Adam’s features appear to be those of Céspedes himself.

[dinonfissatoaffetto]

Eravamo sempre di malumore.

Dopo l’amore,

fumavamo non so quanto,

(finiva col costare molto caro)

e continuavamo a ripetere:

«Non è questo,

non è questo soltanto

che vogliamo.

Dobbiamo fare

un’altra cosa.»

E così abbiamo fatto

la rivoluzione:

era quello che volevamo.

- Alba de Céspedes

[annacswenson]

« We're always inclined to forget what we've said or done in the past, partly in order not to have the tremendous obligation to remain faithful to it. Otherwise, it seems to me, we would all discover that we're full of mistakes and, above all, contradictions, between what we intended to do and what we have done, between what we desire to be and what we are content to be.»

—Alba de Cespédes, Forbidden Notebook

[smokingwiththestars]

Alba de Céspedes

[omgitsacuban]

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo, who was a plantation owner in Cuba, freed his slaves and made the declaration of Cuban independence in 1868 which started the Ten Years' War. Cuban Social vol VI No 3 (marzo 1921)

[luegootravez]

by Hunter & Gatti

Morena Baccarin

[irina-auf]

Habe Quaderno proibito zu Ende gelesen. Manches, was die Tagebuch schreibende Hauptfigur Valeria erlebt, ist typisch für ihre Zeit (so ist es heute kein Skandal mehr, zusammenzuleben, ohne verheiratet zu sein), anderes ist noch immer aktuell (muss eine berufstätige Frau sich gleichzeitig intensiv um Familie und Haushalt kümmern?). Valeria ist eine widersprüchliche Figur, die einerseits von einem anderen Leben träumt und andererseits ihre Moralvorstellungen nicht hinter sich lassen kann. Ihre Tochter Mirella verkörpert eine andere Generation und einen anderen Lebensentwurf. Bezeichnend ist, dass Valerias Chef Guido, den sie letztendlich abweist, sie als Einziger beim Vornamen nennt - das hat sie sich gewünscht, da es für sie bedeutet, wirklich gesehen zu werden. Sprachlich interessant: colazione ist offensichtlich das Mittagessen, pranzo das Abendessen (wobei gelegentlich auch der heutige Begriff cena verwendet wird).

[joywritesj]

Love is not all the things the poets say,

it's not a wave that falls and rises up again.

Love is not a rose, nor the color on our cheek.

Love is not the color of the flowers that fade.

Love is the feeling that grows in deep silence,

a burning and secret feeling,

an invincible impulse.

Love is the feeling that embraces two souls...

-Sonnet on Love, Alba de Céspedes:

[subaquinhodecobra]

[luegootravez]

Morena Baccarin by © Hunter & Gatti

[elmundotlax69]

GOBIERNOS DE TLAXCALA Y PUEBLA INTENSIFICARÁN OPERATIVOS DE SEGURIDAD EN ZONAS LIMÍTROFES

[annacswenson]

"I wondered if I was a good daughter, and then if I'm a good mother and a good wife, but, after a brief examination of my conscience, I had to admit that to all those questions I could answer yes and no with the same sincerity and, I believe, the same validity. So I stopped asking myself and I prayed God to help [my daughter], and me as wel, because we all have a great need of it."

—Alba de Céspedes, Forbidden Notebook