Art, cinema, literature: history and national identity in Pier Paolo Pasolini. Thursday, October 20 from 10 to 17 a day of multidisciplinary studies at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University and at 17.30:XNUMX the screening of the film “The Decameron” in the “Le Zifere” cultural lounge in piazzetta Nilo.
“In the overwhelming intellectual, artistic and human parable of Pier Paolo Pasolini, the passionate love for Italy, its history, its uniqueness represents a constant North Star”. This is how the historian Eugenio Capozzi, full professor of Contemporary History at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University, presents the day of studies that the Neapolitan University has chosen to dedicate on Thursday 20 October starting at 10 am to Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) in the year of the centenary of his birth.
To celebrate the extraordinary cultural eclecticism of one of the most appreciated intellectuals of the twentieth century, the Suor Orsola Benincasa University, with the patronage of the National Committee for the Centenary of the Birth of Pier Paolo Pasolini, has conceived a multidisciplinary study day that will attempt to reconstruct Pasolini's sense of national identity from the different angles in which his enormous artistic and cultural production unfolded.
"In every natural, social, artistic, literary aspect of Italy - Capozzi highlights - Pasolini avidly sought the legacy of that peasant and popular culture that he wanted to save from destruction by mass society and found in ruined villages as well as in the suburbs and outskirts of the metropolis. So the study day organized by the Suor Orsola University on the occasion of the centenary of his birth, taking up the historic quote ("this is Italy and this is not Italy") from his poem "L'umile Italia", aims to highlight some fundamental nuclei in which that passion takes shape in Pasolini's work, between poetry, narrative, cinema, theater, critical and political writings".
On Thursday 20 October at 10 am in the Pagliara Library of the Suor Orsola Benincasa University (and live streaming on www.facebook.com/unisob) to discuss “History and national identity in Pier Paolo Pasolini”, scholars from various disciplines will meet with presentations ranging from history (The abyss between body and history. Croce, Gramsci and the accounts with ideology) to literature (Pasolini's anti-grand tour), from art history (Roberto Longhi and Pasolini: Masaccio, the Mannerists, Caravaggio and an idea of Italy) to cinema ('Deep' Italy at the cinema: from Accattone to La ricotta).
At the speakers' table, coordinated by Alfonso Amendola, professor of Sociology of Cultural Processes at the University of Salerno, after the introduction by the Rector of Suor Orsola, Lucio d'Alessandro, the art historian Stefano Causa, the cinema historian Augusto Sainati, the Italianists Guido Cappelli, Nunzio Ruggiero, Carlo Vecce and Paola Villani and the journalists Alessandro Gnocchi and Antonio Tricomi will alternate from 10 to 17. Complete program of the speeches (www.unisob.na.it/eventi).
At 17.30:XNUMX pm the day dedicated to Pasolini by the Suor Orsola Benincasa University will continue with the screening of one of his most famous films, The Decameron, in the cultural salon “Le Zifere”, founded by the art historian Roberto Nicolucci, inside one of the most prestigious historic buildings in the city of Naples: the Palazzo De Sangro di Vietri in Piazzetta Nilo.
Article published on 18 October 2022 - 14:52
