Patrizia Poli
Bio
Patrizia Poli was born in Livorno in 1961. Writer of fiction and blogger, she published seven novels.
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Giuseppe Benassi, "Lomicidio Serpenti o l'enigma del bosco sacro"
As always in Benassi, crime story is a pretext to talk about esoteric culture, about alchemical paths, which he approaches not as an adept but as a scholar, fascinated even if disenchanted. In this novel — the second of a series starring the irreverent lawyer Borrani — more than in the other two, the characters remain in the background, they are colorless like the story around which the plot revolves, i.e. the murder of the handsome Rosario Serpenti, a goldsmith and former butcher, who, already from his name, is more than what appears. And everything is really played on the contrast between what lies behind things and the appearance, between the dreamlike and the real.
By Patrizia Poliabout a year ago in Humans
I versi livornesi di Giorgio Caproni
“Livorno, when she passed by, she smelled of air and boats “ Giorgio Caproni (1912–1990) was born in Livorno and there he set his most beautiful poems, those dedicated to his mother, Anna Picchi, Annina, called “Versi Livornesi”, in the collection “The seed of crying” of 1959.
By Patrizia Poliabout a year ago in Humans
Folco Terzani, "A piedi nudi sulla terra"
“Values depend on the point of view. For example, for the mass media, for the public, a sahdu is ruined, he is a poor fellow because he renounces attachments, houses, things. Whereas a sahdu, a fakir, thinks that those who remain in samsara are ruined. They are the ones who give up knowledge, the dimension of greatness that can be god, to get lost in material histories in illusion”.
By Patrizia Poliabout a year ago in Humans
Renato Fucini Opere, a cura di Davide Puccini
Davide Puccini, essayist, fine scholar, but above all passionate about Italian literature has edited this edition of the works of Renato Fucini. The operation, he explains, derives from the need to re-propose a now forgotten author, whose works can no longer be found.
By Patrizia Poliabout a year ago in Humans
Virginia Woolf, "Walter Sickert: a Conversation"
Just leaf through the Damocle editions catalog to understand that Pierpaolo Pregnolato belongs to quality micro-publishing: he directs a series of paperbacks and the latest bet was the publication of an unpublished essay by Virginia Woolf “Walter Sickert: a Conversation”.
By Patrizia Poliabout a year ago in Humans
Il trascendentalismo di Louisa May Alcott
The region around Boston was simple and genuine countryside. “There,” says Cunliff, “the aspiring writer could live with very little, cultivating a piece of land to get what he needed for his livelihood […] and doing occasionally a trip to Boston to borrow books, or to meet with a publisher. […] it was in that circle of cultured and intimately connected communities, near Boston, that the phenomenon of transcendentalism appeared, an imprecise term and difficult to attribute to any among the most important figures of the time.”
By Patrizia Poliabout a year ago in Humans
"A mille ce n'è..." Le fiabe dei fratelli Fabbri
Not long before Christmas 1966, the Fratelli Fabbri editori distributed a promotional record of “Le Fiabe Sonore”, with “The Three Little Pigs”, free of charge on newsstands. The following week, the first official issue was released, “Puss in Boots” by Charles Perrault, accompanied by a large format book (27x35) with splendid romantic and yet ironic, alluring, however modern illustrations.
By Patrizia Poliabout a year ago in Education
Wuthering Heights
At three years old Emily Brontë had already lost her mother and was growing in memory of the two missing sisters, Maria and Elisabeth. Her aunt raised her, Charlotte, Anne and Patrick (called Branwell from the maternal surname) with the Wesleyan method, in family reunions a usual theme was the report of edifying deaths. The father was Irish, the mother of Cornwall, more than English, they were Celts, and this legacy of myths and folklore, combined with the wild nature in which they grew up, exalted the imagination of the brothers.
By Patrizia Poliabout a year ago in Humans
Michael Viewegh, "Fuori gioco"
Atmosphere Libri is not an Eap but actually penalizes Italians. They have chosen, in particular with the “Biblioteca dell’Acqua” series, to make foreign novels known, especially from Eastern Europe. They translate authors united by what is universal in the human being: feelings, development, growth, the sense of failure or fulfilment. So it is for the Czech Michael Viewegh, considered by many to be the new Kundera.
By Patrizia Poliabout a year ago in Humans
Liala
After 1950 contempt the bourgeois novel fell, the same that now aspires to be part of literature. But first, in the fascist period and beyond, there is a clear division between mass literature and entertainment, with large-scale novelists (Zuccoli, D’Ambra, Pitigrilli, Da Verona) and novels written by intellectuals for other intellectuals (Gadda, Landolfi, Bilenchi, Vittorini, Bersani).
By Patrizia Poliabout a year ago in Humans
En Francais
Anyone who has a grandmother with an apron as armor and a ladle brandished like a sword may have noticed that the legendary Artusi has now been replaced in the kitchen by the books of “La prova del cuoco”, under the Eri Rai brand. Eri is the publishing brand under which Rai publishes books, magazines and multimedia products associated with its programming, churning out an average of fifty texts a year and defines itself as “Rai to be read”.
By Patrizia Poliabout a year ago in Education