Piperno on the classics, Favino and Veronesi: here is «la Lettura» – Corriere.it

An experience that challenges the exhibition industry and transgresses the boundary of the frame, understood as the perimeter of the sacredness of the painting. Like this the street artists, who make the city their open-air studio, promote the environmental redemption of disadvantaged areas. The Theme of the Day, the daily digital-only extra of the «la Lettura» App, on Monday 12 December is a text by Vincenzo Trione dedicated to the «post-studios» of Street Art, and to the artistic code of an art form that defies the rules. While in supplement #576, available on newsstands and in the App itself, Trione writes about the studies of great artists. The text is accompanied by photographs by Aurelio Amendola narrated by Stefano Bucci.

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In the «Themes» section of the App you can also read the previous insights. Two are dedicated to children, on the occasion of the release – on newsstands and in the App together with “la Lettura” #576 – of the third issue of “La Lettura delle bambini e dei bambini”: the focus by Giulia Ziino, dedicated to the s“grown-up” critics they love to raid the shelves of the little ones and that of Severino Colombo, suggests some Christmas theater events for children: .

Number #576 of the mother “Reading” plays on the ambivalence between the uncertainty of tomorrow on the one hand, and the security of the past on the other. The insert opens with a conversation between the classicist Donatella Puliga, the neuroscientist Ugo Faraguna and the Jesuit Matteo Suffritti: three different points of view to answer questions about the future. Where have the dreams gone? What do boys and girls dream about? Questions that “measure” hope and the ability to imagine tomorrow; and which have direct dealings with the challenges and problems of the present (the pandemic, wars, the environment, human rights…). Alongside the adults, the new generations also take the floor: “La Lettura” went to some schools in Rome and Milan to be told by the young people themselves what they dream of, if and how they imagine tomorrow.

On the other hand, the certainty of the past comes from the classics, from the great authors who can be guides and beacons in difficult times Stendhal (alias Marie Henri Beyle). Or like Shakespeare. A new translation of the masterpiece has come out of the first The Charterhouse of Parma (1838), made for Einaudi by Margherita Botto. The novelty offers the opportunity to two contemporary authors, George Montefoschi And Alexander Piperno, to reflect, each with his own intervention, on literature, classics and the ability of the latter to renew themselves through new versions. For the text by Stendhal, first published in Italy in 1855, this is the twenty-second translation into our language. Shakespeare’s verses are, however, the basis of the dialogue between the critic Daniel Piccini and the theater director and actor Valter Malosti, who translated two poems by the Bard written with acute feminine sensitivity, Venus and Adonis And The rape of Lucretia (Einaudi).

Between dreams of tomorrow and certainties of the past there is also room for acts of heroism like that of the commander Salvatore Todaro of the Italian Royal Navy which, in 1940, in contravention of orders received from the German command, chose to rescue the crew of a recently sunk Belgian submarine. The film by Edoardo De Angelis was taken from this episode Commander, with Pierfrancesco Favino, and the novel of the same name (which comes out on January 25 for Bompiani), co-written by De Angelis himself together with Sandro Veronesi. The latter also signs the introduction of the book, a passage that «la Lettura» offers as a preview at the end of the new issue.

On the occasion of Christmas – and the holiday period often associated with it – «la Lettura» offers a selection, curated by Stefano Bucci, of twelve exhibitions in as many cities (eight Italian, four abroad), from the exhibition dedicated to Macchiaioli painting in Pisa to the Edward Hopper exhibition in New York.