Eugenia Serafini
"I was born in 1946 in a family of Tosco-Romagnole origins in Tolfa, a small village in Upper Lazio, inhabited by the Etruscans but much earlier by prehistoric man: certainly for its extraordinary position, which dominates the valleys of the Mignone river, the view over the Tyrrhenian sea and is rich in pastures, forests and iron minerals. Here my parents had returned to live after a long professional period in Terni, and then moved to Rome: labyrinth of my care! I carry in me the proud resistance and creativity of that wild nature, but I also recognise different roots, almost anarchic, linked to another village, Castiglione Garfagnana, to its valley in the mountains of the Apuan Alps, where my maternal ancestors were born. , at the marble quarries of Aulla and Carrara: in his Academy of Fine Arts I was Assistant Professor of Art History. Who knows why, but I have always felt that it was my grandmother Eugenia and mother Paola who wanted me up there in their mountains, witness to an infinite love for ART! I love clouds and planets, woods and starry, the white "spuma" of the sea.
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Matilde Tortora (Italy, 1948) is author of several books of poems including Casa Tettoia, Periferia 1980 (Joppolo-Piccolo Award), An added ancestor / Monte Pavone, Andrea Livi Editore 1990, Her poems are in various anthologies, including Care Donne (edited by E. Malagò and G. Prosperi) Forum / Fifth Generation 1980, Italian Erotic Poetry of the 1900s (edited by Carlo Villa) Newton Compton 1980, won the Poetry Award of the International Women's House in 1990. She conceived and edited "Poesia in corpore", University of Calabria 1994. Her poems were published in Crocetti's "Poesia" magazine in May 2000. She also participated in various events including “Literature at the Botanical Garden, Literature Festival. The voices of writing "(directed by Giorgio Weiss) Rome 1988 and in the 1989 edition," The birth of poetry "(edited by Lamberto Pignotti) Palazzo Braschi, Rome 1979, then the following year at the Central Municipal Library of Florence, Palazzo Bosdari in Ancona and the Italian Cultural Institute in Cologne. The book L’abbecedario del bosco is published by Mongolfiera Editrice. In 2000 she was awarded the Culture Prize of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
Visit our Instagram to follow the exhibition Gallery of the exhibition in the House of Voices Alessandro Fo was born in Legnano, near Milan, in 1955. The nephew of Nobel Laureate Dario Fo, he grew up surrounded by the world of theater. But after producing some early screenplays, he turned his attention exclusively to poetry. His collections of verse include: Otto febbraio (Scheiwiller 1995); Piccole poesie per banconote (Polistampa 2002); Corpuscolo (Einaudi 2004); Vecchi filmati (Manni 2006); Mancanze (Einaudi 2014, for which he was awarded the prestigious Viareggio-Rèpaci Prize for Poetry); and Esseri umani (L’Arcolaio 2018). His forthcoming collection, entitled Filo spinato («Barbed wire»), is here previewed and will be published in Italian by Einaudi in 2021. Fo is also a classical philologist and Full Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Siena. For Einaudi he has translated anew Virgil’s Aeneid (in «barbaric hexameters», as he likes to say). Free access to a reading of the work, published in 2012, is available online. Similarly, some specimina of his 2018 complete «barbaric» translations of Catullus’ Carmina, also published by Einaudi (with an introduction and extensive commentary by Fo himself), can be heard online. His scholarly interests include contemporary Italian literature and «Classical Reception»: namely, promoting the classics in today’s society. Visit Instagram to follow the exhibition Gallery of the exhibition in the House of Voices |
AuthorHi, I am Giovanna Iorio. I am sound artist based in London and I am the curator of the House of voices, a doll's house for poets & artists memories. The main aspect of the exhibitions is that our guests are invited to share with us precious memories and they tell us their stories with their voices. Archives
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