From the talk on the social role of the artist, with singers Roberto Colella, Ciccio Merolla, and comedian Vincenzo Comunale, to the overwhelming Roberto Mercadini, from the superhero Spiderman/Mattia Villardita, from an unprecedented Marcello Cesena, outside the role of his Jean Claude of Gialappa's, to the web star Cristina Fogazzi, entrepreneur with 1000000 followers, this time in the role of writer, up to the writer/myth Dacia Maraini, here is the intense and passionate program that Morante brings to the Royal Palace of Naples.
Brilliant, engaging, intelligent, the format that the Elsa Morante Award creates with the Campania dei Festival Foundation, in collaboration with Rai, and that enriches the days of the Campania Libri Festival. This year's title is precisely "Il Morante al Campania Libri Festival" and creates six meetings in four days, conducted by the journalist Tiuna Notarbartolo and the Rai Director Antonio Parlati.
It starts on Thursday 5 October with a talk in the splendid Teatrino di Corte at 12,00:XNUMX, also suitable for schools, entitled "Counter-revolution. The social role of the artist, between creativity and legality", on stage three "positive" examples of artists who have made it by transmitting clean values to thousands of their fans, the singers Roberto Colella, frontman of La Maschera, and Ciccio Merolla, whose piece "Malatia" has recently received the gold record, which the artist received at the Arena di Verona, and the comedian Vincenzo Comunale, who also laughs at Zelig and manages to make people laugh and reflect on criminal power.
Also on October 5th, at 15 pm, at the Sala D'Ercole it's the turn of Roberto Mercadini and his “La donna che rise di Dio”, published just three months ago by Mondadori. Playwright, writer and youtuber from Cesena, in one of his rare episodes in Naples.
On October 6, at 12,00:XNUMX, there will be the writer/superhero Mattia Villardita, who dedicates a lot of time to volunteering, in the role of Spiderman, awarded the knighthood of the Republic by the President and even invited by the Pope. His book, winner of the Elsa Morante Social Award and the Elsa Morante School Award, is a star in the Salani firmament, whose Director, Maria Grazia Mazzitelli, will be in Naples to accompany him.
Again October 6th, 16,00 pm, Teatrino di Corte, Marcello Cesena presents his
“A Safe Place”, published a few months ago by Sperling & Kupfer.
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On October 7th at 16,30:1 pm, again at the Teatrino di Corte, the entrepreneur Cristina Fogazzi, a very well-known blogger with the nickname of l'Estetista cinica on Instagram, where she has XNUMX million followers, offers us her side as a lover of art places with the book “Il mio Grand Tour”, recently published by Mondadori.
Sunday 8 October, 16,00:XNUMX pm, grand finale at the Teatrino di Corte, with the greatest Italian writer, the most translated abroad and, for several years, a Nobel candidate: Dacia Maraini. She will talk about her most recent book, the one published by Giannini “Ti parlo, mi ascolti?”. It collects three theatrical pieces, three stories of women, very representative of Maraini's writing and thought.
The organization of Morante, led by Tiuna Notarbartolo, avails itself of the coordination of Iki Notarbartolo, of the beautiful graphic images of Umberto Amicucci and of the Pem press office, with Lisa Terranova and Gilda Notarbartolo, Raimondo Miele for Institutional Relations.
Partners of these days, in which the synergy between the Elsa Morante Award, the Campania dei Festival Foundation and the Campania Region is a winning one, are the Rai of Naples, in the year of its sixtieth anniversary, the Grand Hotel Oriente, a true refuge for stars, the Al 53 restaurant, which tells the story of Naples through culinary art, and Giannini Editore.
All events are free to attend.
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