Where and when
Appointment on Monday 15 April at 6 pm at the Museo Novecento with “Ottone Rosai. Writings dispersed“, presentation of the volume edited by Giuseppe Nicoletti and published by Polistampa which sees published together for the first time the writings collected by the scholar Carlo Cordié (1910-2002) relating to Ottone Rosai’s long journey as a writer, from his beginnings with Lacerba in 1914 until the last days of life. The presentation will be introduced by the artistic director of the museum Sergio Risaliti and will be attended by Luigi Cavallo, Gloria Manghetti and the curator, Giuseppe Nicoletti.
Articles of costume, short essays of both artistic and literary criticism, autobiographical passages, narrative sketches also in the Florentine vernacular. Rosai’s personal memories are inevitably intertwined with the Italian history of the last century as well as with that of Florence, from the partnership with Soffici to joining Maccari’s Futurism and Strapaese, hence his experience as a daring in the Great War and as an artist and man of action during the Twenties. The artist’s restless soul contrasts with the more lyrical one, between critical and self-critical ideas and precious cameos dedicated to prominent figures of Italian culture, such as Filippo Tommaso Marinetti or Aldo Palazzeschi.
Giuseppe Nicoletti
Born in Florence in 1945, he was full professor of Italian literature in the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Florence. He has mainly dealt with works and authors of the last four centuries of Italian literature, publishing, among other things, editions and comments on writers such as F. Galiani, G. Parini, U. Foscolo, G. Pecchio, F. Tozzi, L. Pirandello, G. Papini, A. Palazzeschi, O. Rosai, R. Bilenchi.