Spanish women who left a mark on the history of Naples

Meeting with Yvonne Carbonaro for World Book Day. Tuesday, April 23, 2024, at 5:30 p.m. at the Instituto Cervantes (Via Chiatamone, 6G – Naples).

On the occasion of World Book and Copyright Day, the Instituto Cervantes of Naples is organizing a meeting with the writer Yvonne Carbonaro. On Tuesday 23 April at 17.30:XNUMX pm, the Italian-Venezuelan writer, essayist, journalist and art critic will be the protagonist of the conference (free admission until all seats are taken) entitled “Spanish women who have left a mark on the history of Naples”.

Introduced by Ana Navarro, director of the Instituto Cervantes in Naples, Yvonne Carbonaro will talk about famous women, Spanish by birth or origin, who in various ways have entered the Neapolitan world of culture, faith, power, as narrated in her book “History of the Women of Naples”, published by Kairòs.

With the help of a video projection that connects the characters to the places in the city that remind them, female figures who have distinguished themselves in the history of Naples will be told. A quick overview of the history of the city and its documentary sources to identify, in the context of the female condition over the centuries, the most significant and interesting personalities, up to the women of our times.

Author of fiction, poetry, plays and historical research with a particular focus on Naples and its culture, Yvonne Carbonaro has been a tenured professor of Italian literature, history and art history and has collaborated with the Faculty of Letters at the Federico II University. An art critic, translator from Spanish to Italian and journalist for paper and online magazines, she recently won the Intercontinental Award “Le Nove Muse”. She has translated into Italian El Hombre Light by psychiatrist Enrique Rojas and poems by Venezuelan authors. In Spanish she has written the teaching text La Historia de Jorgito for the MECD and has published poems and short texts in Spanish for the Universidad Abierta para el Mundo – Caracas. One of her microrelatos was selected by the Chilean magazine Brevilla.

Established by UNESCO in 1995 and celebrated in over 80 countries around the world, World Book and Copyright Day is celebrated around the world every April 23 to commemorate three great figures of universal literature: the Spaniard Miguel de Cervantes, the British William Shakespeare and the Peruvian Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. The idea for this celebration was born in Catalonia where on April 23, the day of Saint George, a rose is donated for every book sold. Initially established on October 7, 1926 to commemorate the birth of Miguel de Cervantes, World Book Day was conceived by Vicente Clavel Andrés, a writer and editor from Valencia, who proposed it to the Cámara Oficial del Libro of the city and received the approval of the Government, with Alfonso XIII officially establishing the “Spanish Book Festival”. In 1930 it was decided to change the date to April 23, the day of the death of Cervantes, as well as Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso, three authors who crossed borders and became essential references of universal literature.