BOOK CLUB
« A book is a garden you can carry in your pocket »
« Un libro è come un giardino che puoi custodire in tasca »
Umberto Saba
Are you a reader? Are you passionate about Italian Literature?
If so, join our Book Club! Starting October 30, we will meet monthly to read and discuss books written by Italian authors and translated into English. No Italian language knowledge is required; the discussions will be in English.
We will be exploring Italy through stories, characters and narrative styles, we will share our thoughts, impressions and interpretations, widening together our comprehension of the book. Marisa Castagno and Emanuele Capoano will be our guides throughout this journey.
The reading sessions take place in our splendid library, named after Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart’s librettist and the first professor of Italian Literature in America.
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The reading of this month will be
Le città invisibili – Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
What is the city today, for us? I think I have written something like the last love poem to cities, as it is becoming increasingly difficult to live in them, as cities. Perhaps we are approaching a moment of crisis in urban life, and Invisible Cities is a dream born from the heart of unlivable cities. Today there is as much talk about the destruction of natural environment as there is about the fragility of large technological systems, which can produce chain failures, paralyzing entire metropolises. The crisis of a city that has become too large is the other side of the crisis of nature. It is the image of the “megalopolis,” the continuous, uniform city spreading over the world, also guides my book.
(From a lecture given by Italo Calvino in New York in 1983 – published in the Oscar Mondadori edition, 1993)
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