Meeting with the author
Building U6,听Spazio Agor脿听(Piazza dell鈥橝teneo Nuovo 1, Milano) | h. 15.00
Speakers of the event are听Pietro De Marchi听(professor of Italian Language and Literature at the University of Zurich and the University of Bern; fine scholar and limpid author of poetry and tales),听Francesca Caputo听(professor of Contemporary Italian Literature, University of Milan-Bicocca),听Gabriele Iannaccaro听(professor of Entolinguistics and General Linguistics, University of Milan- Bicocca)听Franca Zuccoli听(professor of General Didactics and Image Education, University of Milan- Bicocca).
In this event, for the students, teachers, scholars, and citizens (especially those from the Bicocca district), the book 鈥Con il foglio sulle ginocchia鈥澨(A paper on the knees), written by Pietro de Marchi, will be presented.
The audience and speakers will ponder on the 鈥sense of inheriting鈥
The starting point of this reflection will be the portraits the author depicted of unforgettable teachers and friends like writers Luigi Meneghello and Giovanni Orelli and the critic and philologist Dante Isella.
One more starting point will be the delicate fragments of 鈥someone else鈥檚 autobiography鈥(those of his grandparents- who moved from Veneto to Milan to work in Pirelli factory in the 30s; and the one of the father- glottologist and decennial teacher of Latin and Greek at Liceo Parini).
鈥淲hat have our fathers and mothers left for us? Whether a lot or not, to inherit something, we have to live up to it: even if just a word or a verse, we have to be capable of catching in a gesture, a letter, or an object, the听别辫颈辫丑补苍测听that lights up our path. An epiphany which will also light up the way of those who are coming after us, when the moment will come to leave for others our small or big heritage (P.di Stefano)
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A professor of linguistics and high school student of professor Valentino de Marchi; an educationalist and scholar of the relationship between material and intangible heritage, and a professor of Contemporary Italian Literature, curator of Luigi Meneghello鈥檚 work, will reason with the author.
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PRESENTED BOOK:
P.De Marchi, Con il foglio sulle ginocchia. Bellinzona, Casagrande 2020