Storytelling Festival: two events in Varese

Context

TL;DR

• Two cultural events in Varese on 9 and 11 October
• Dante at the center of Friday's meeting at 5:30 pm
• Three unpublished stories by Carlo Linati on Sunday at 5:00 pm

Key facts

• → Villa Recalcati headquarters, Piazzale Libertà 1, Varese
• Friday, October 9, 5:30 pm → One hundred questions to Dante and one hundred answers
• Sunday, October 11, 5:00 p.m. → The day of the confrontation and other stories
• First volume Hephaestus → Editions
• Second volume → GaEle Publisher

The first meeting

Varese hosts the double literary event with which the Storytelling Festival enters the heart of the programming. Next weekend, the headquarters of Villa Recalcati, in Piazzale Libertà 1, will be the site of two meetings dedicated to dialogue with the great classics and the rediscovery of Lombard literary heritage.

The first date is Friday, October 9, at 5:30 pm. The program includes the presentation of "One hundred questions to Dante and one hundred answers", a volume published by Edizioni Efesto and written by Giorgio Gibertini and Paolo Velonà.

The work is constructed as an impossible interview with the Supreme Poet. Its architecture recalls that of the Divine Comedy and entrusts Dante with answers on current issues, expressed through an alternation of modern language and ancient triplets. The setting thus combines the Dantean figure with questions related to contemporary life, maintaining the reference to the ancient poetic form.

In the course of the work, universal and contemporary themes enter. These include anger management, raising children, the possibility of a just war, and overcoming fear. The text also addresses curiosities about happiness and school, up to the invention of cinema.

During the afternoon Giorgio Gibertini will talk with Carla Soresina. The presentation focuses on the book signed by Gibertini and Velonà and the choice to have Dante answer questions related to current affairs, following the structure of the Divine Comedy.

Operational details

The unpublished works of Carlo Linati

A handcrafted publication

The second appointment of the Festival del Racconto is scheduled for Sunday, October 11th at 5:00 PM. For the occasion, the protagonist will be «La giornata del rinfaccio e altri racconti», published by GaEle Editore and presented as a precious volume entirely handcrafted by the publishing house from Cuvio.

The Sunday event will be the opportunity to present three unpublished short stories by Carlo Linati. The texts were discovered by his niece Bianca Maria Mora Pina and by Mario Chiodetti, noted as a scholar of the famous writer. The discovery brings never-before-published material by the Como-born author into the publication and forms the core of the meeting dedicated to the volume.

The publication turns the spotlight back on a writer deeply linked to Lombardy. The profile outlined by the program brings together innovative writing and a passion for nature and the culture of the region. These are the traits through which the book is included in the part of the Festival dedicated to the rediscovery of Lombard literary heritage.

At the event, Mario Chiodetti will engage in a discussion with Cesare Chiericati and Mauro Novelli. The program therefore adds to the presentation of the three stories a discussion with two interlocutors presented alongside the scholar who found the texts together with Bianca Maria Mora Pina.

The title chosen by GaEle Editore, the entirely handcrafted production of the volume, and the recovery of the never-before-published stories define the character of the second date. The source in fact connects the rediscovery of Carlo Linati to his relationship with Lombardy, with nature, and with the culture of the region, offering a new opportunity to bring the author back to the center of literary attention.

Key points

The continuation of the programming

The dates of the festival

The continuation of the initiative is already marked in the calendar of the Festival del Racconto: two separate meetings, concentrated on the weekend and hosted at the same venue of Villa Recalcati, at Piazzale Libertà 1 in Varese. The sequence connects the first appointment dedicated to Dante with the subsequent one dedicated to the unpublished works of Carlo Linati.

The first stage is set for Friday, October 9th at 5:30 PM. The event program indicates the presentation of 'Cento domande a Dante e cento risposte', published by Edizioni Efesto and written by Giorgio Gibertini and Paolo Velonà. A dialogue between Giorgio Gibertini and Carla Soresina is scheduled for this meeting.

The second stage arrives on Sunday, October 11th at 5:00 PM. The calendar lists the presentation of 'La giornata del rinfaccio e altri racconti', published by GaEle Editore. The volume includes three unpublished stories by Carlo Linati, while the appointment features a discussion between Mario Chiodetti, Cesare Chiericati, and Mauro Novelli.

The two dates make up the double cultural appointment announced by the Festival. The program combines a reinterpretation of the figure of the Supreme Poet, constructed through current questions and the structure of the Divine Comedy, with the rediscovery of never-published materials by an author linked to Lombardy.

The venue and the times therefore remain the common reference for both presentations: Villa Recalcati for both meetings, 5:30 PM for the volume dedicated to Dante, and 5:00 PM for the one dedicated to Carlo Linati. The Festival weekend thus unfolds between a literary dialogue with the great classic and the recovery of three stories that remained unpublished.

Source: varesenews.it