Where and when
Orario
18:00
Museo Novecento
Who
Lauretta Colonnelli
Writer and Journalist
Sergio Risaliti
Free entry
On Tuesday, March 8, on the occasion of the International Women’s Day, the Museo Novecento hosts the writer and journalist Lauretta Colonnelli for the presentation of her latest book, Storie Meridiane. Miti, leggende e favole per raccontare l’arte (Marsilio Editore, 2021)
After the success of The Hidden Muses, the author returns with a collection of ancient stories that narrate art, all set in the lands of the South, from Naples to Sicily. It is not a guide, nor a collection of essays, but a series of short stories, in which, however, nothing is invented. Each story is born from an enchantment for a painting, a sculpture, a work of architecture, a literary masterpiece.
From these stories appear mythological figures and characters who really existed, from the time of Magna Grecia to the present day. The images of these characters, or their works, are found scattered in museums that hardly anyone knows, or in private buildings, or in archaeological sites that are inaccessible to reach but full of magic, or in parks dotted with works of contemporary art.
An immense heritage that you never stop discovering. And by narrating it, we see times of war and times of peace, feasts and epidemics, the birth of civilizations and their dissolve in the lands of the South. Armies and migrants coming from the sea, or from very distant northern countries, or from the near Middle East, are seen passing. We recognize the intertwining of religions and cultures, of habits and customs, of private events that seem to be today and instead took place thousands of centuries ago. And everything has remained a trace.
Lauretta Colonnelli
She was born in Pitigliano (Grosseto). She lives between Rome and Tuscany. Graduated in Philosophy, she taught History of Theater at the Sapienza University of Rome, and worked as a programmer-director at Rai Radio2. Journalist since 1979, first on the cultural pages of the European, then on Corriere dello Sera. Writer of essays on art: The unrepeatable 60s in Rome (Milan 2011); Do you know Rome? (Florence 2013); Do you know Rome? Volume second (Florence 2014); The table of God (Florence 2015) on the paintings of the Last Supper; Fifty paintings. The paintings that everyone knows. For real? (Florence 2016); The hidden muses (Florence 2020).