Patrizia Poli
Bio
Patrizia Poli was born in Livorno in 1961. Writer of fiction and blogger, she published seven novels.
Stories (265/0)
Grant Allen's "Questi Barbari Inglesi"
As the author himself states in the preface, “The English Barbarians” aims to “represent points of view (…) in romantic fiction rather than in thoughtful essays”. And the novel, in fact, is a mixture of three genres: bland science fiction, sentimental fiction and pamphlet. In reality, it tends towards the third way, the other two are just pretexts to make the subject more captivating.
By Patrizia Poli11 months ago in Humans
The New Jewish Cemetery
The Jewish cemetery in Via Mei in Livorno, behind the municipal cemetery of La Cigna, is more recent than the other in via Ippolito Nievo (which preserves only nineteenth-century corpses and is in a state of decay) since it was opened in 1900. Of great historical value, the tombstones and cenotaphs (not the remains) of the very first cemeteries of the Jewish community, dating back to the seventeenth century, have now been sheltered.
By Patrizia Poli11 months ago in Humans
Gordiano Lupi's "Miracolo a Piombino"
Either because we are compatriots, either by age proximity, or by that contamination between high and popular culture that unites us, or by a profound inner affinity, no author pines and moves me like Gordiano Lupi, and “Miracle in Piombino” is no exception.
By Patrizia Poli11 months ago in Humans
Rosachiara's girls
There was not only the Michelangelo coffee bar in Florence, the headquarters of the Macchiaioli, where Renato Fucini recited his sonnets amid the general hilarity, together with his friend Edmondo de Amicis, there were also the Livorno cafes, meeting places for artists and writers, where cultural ferments and avant-garde boiled.
By Patrizia Poli11 months ago in Humans
Laura Nuti's "Storia di Melusina"
The legend of Melusina, half woman and half snake (or perhaps siren), dates back to ancient Celtic myths and has come down to us in different versions, all aimed at exalting remote European families, especially that of the Lusignano. Her figure is mainly present in French folklore, in the version written by Jean D ‘Arras and in the subsequent version by Coudrette, but is then taken up by many modern authors, among which Goethe stands out.
By Patrizia Poli11 months ago in Humans
Modì
Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920) was born in Livorno from Sephardi Jews. His father is an impoverished money changer, there are cases of depression in the family, a brother is jailed. Undermined by TB from an early age, he is stubborn, independent, very good at drawing, he becomes a pupil of Guglielmo Micheli and meets Giovanni Fattori and Silvestro Lega.
By Patrizia Poli11 months ago in Humans
Simone Giusti's "Pisa Connection"
Simone Giusti, whose delicate story for children “Il giardino di bosco fitto”, I read, inaugurates a Pulp series, with the short novel “Pisa Connection”. A whole different style, a whole different grit but always the same excellent writing.
By Patrizia Poli11 months ago in Humans
Riccardo Marchi
Riccardo Marchi (1897–1992) is truly a forgotten character in the Italian literary panorama, searching online you can find very little about him. Yet, Riccardo Marchi has been compared by critics to Tozzi, Verga and Capuana, for the realism of the description and for his being a scholar of Livorno folklore and traditions.
By Patrizia Poli11 months ago in Humans
Carlo Bini
Democratic and romantic, Carlo Bini was brilliant, intelligent, creative, but restless, indocile and rebellious. He was born of a humble family, in Via delle Galere in Livorno, he attended the college of the Barnabites, where he met Guerrazzi, but was forced to interrupt his studies and unwillingly devote himself to the father’s grain and cereal stand, which humiliated and conditioned him throughout the existence, frustrating his political and intellectual aspirations. He continued to study as a self-taught, learning Greek and Latin but also German, French and English, translating Byron and Sterne.
By Patrizia Poli11 months ago in Humans