For immediate release Subject: Event in Italian : Le Parole del Mare

For immediate release
Subject: Event in Italian : Le Parole del Mare
At: the Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8NX
Date: 22nd October 2007
Time: 6.30 pm
Entrance fee £5.00, free for members. Booking essential.
More information:
Press Officer:
Stefania Bochicchio direct line 0207 396 4402
Email [email protected]
The Sea is a real presence in the Italian consciousness: it can be said that it has shaped
Italy’s history and its culture.
It has been beautifully described by the widest of range of Italian writers from the very
beginning of a recognizable Italian literature.
Professor of Italian Studies Martin McLaughlin, of Fiat-Serena at Magdalene College,
Oxford has chosen the texts together with actress Graziella Galvani, who will read them
with the piano accompaniment by Mario Mariani.
The event has been organized for the VII Italian Language Week and will be in Italian.
Excerpts from:
Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968): Epigrammi, A un poeta nemico
Giorno dopo Giorno, S’ode ancora il Mare
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321): Inferno, Canto XXVI
Gabriele d’Annunzio (1863-1938): Alcyone, L’Onda
Stanislao Nievo (1928-2006): Il Prato in Fondo al Mare
Tiziano Scarpa (1963): Venezia e’un pesce
Erri de Luca (1950): Il contrario di Uno, Udito: un Grido
Raffaella La Capria (1922): Ferito a Morte
Eugenio Montale (1896-1981): Poesie Disperse