booksSono cose che passanoby Pietrangelo Buttafuoco
sala della Voliera
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A seductive and fiery novel like Sicily, a divorce Italian style that Buttafuoco transforms into a modern female Faust.
The book, set after World War II, tells the story of when the baron of dubious nobility Rodolfo Polizzi marries Ottavia, Princess of Bauci, and takes her with him to Leonforte, a village in the Sicilian hinterland.
It is the summer of 1951, when, not so far away, Roberto Rossellini was falling in love with Ingrid Bergman on the island of Vulcano and Lucio Piccolo, with his brother Casimiro and sister Agata Giovanna – Ottavia’s aunts and uncles – were welcoming the international jet set in Capo d’Orlando. Lucy Thompson, his wife’s college friend, arrives at the home of the candid Rodolfo to awaken the princess’s misspent youth, full of strange practices and student witchcraft. Under the gaze of Signorina Lia, an enthusiastic witness to an exhilarating summer, while Baron Polizzi falls ill and the princess allows herself to be seduced by a building foreman, the village of Leonforte descends into complete pandemonium.
welcomes
Paolo Le Grazie MAXXI L’Aquila Coordinator
Pierluigi Biondi Mayor of L’Aquila
speakers
Pietrangelo Buttafuoco journalist and writer, President of the Teatro Stabile d’Abruzzo
Rita Centofanti journalist, Vice President of the Teatro Stabile d’Abruzzo
In partnership with the Municipality of L’Aquila, Il Segno della Rinascita, the Teatro Stabile d’Abruzzo and La nave di Teseo.
