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La parola

Teresa Carson's reading of her own piece of poetry - unprecedentedly - in Italian. Credits : "Guarda l'alba" by C. Consoli / T. Ferro (2010)

Jun 26, 2025•2 min

L'invisibile

Alessandro G's reading from Rodari's Telephone Tales, The Invisible Kid. Credits : "Tonino l'invisibile" by G. Rodari (1962)

Apr 24, 2025•7 min

Season's reading from Alberto Moravia's Roman Tales, on his very birthday. Credits : "Canon and Variation" by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 - http://www.twinmusicom.org/

Nov 28, 2024•17 min

Piccole virtù

Reading from narrator-essayist Natalia Ginzburg's Human Relationships (1953) and Small Virtues (1962) clear and easy to understand. Credits : "Due destini" by F. Zampaglione / R. Sinigallia (2000)

Jul 11, 2024•18 min

Voce di David

Alessandro G's reading of father David Maria Turoldo as voiced by poet Alda Merini (2009)

Mar 21, 2024•5 min

L'avvenire dei ricordi

Extracts from The Future of Our Memories by Italo Svevo (1925) - Credits : FairyTale Waltz by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100232 Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Dec 14, 2023•10 min

Marianna Ucria

Reading from Dacia Maraini's masterpiece, The Silent Duchess.

Aug 02, 2023•19 min

Il cappotto di astrakan

From Italy's lakes region to Paris, the adventures of an idle young man in Piero Chiara's Astrakhan coat , featuring Sara Maiorana.

Jan 24, 2023•16 min

Le ceneri di Gramsci

Celebrating a major poet of 1900s, Pier Paolo Pasolini, one hundred years after his birth. - Credits : "RV 481, concerto in re minore per fagotto, no. 5" by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Nov 02, 2022•8 min

L'isola di Arturo

Celebrating Morante's Bildungsroman in the year when the island of Procida is the Italian capital of culture. - Credits : "Senza fine" by Gino Paoli and Ornella Vanoni (1961)

Jul 20, 2022•23 min

Lettera da Casablanca

From Antonio Tabucchi's short story "Letter from Casablanca" featuring Domenico De Marco. - Credits : Josephine Baker's "Banana Dance" (1925) ; "Rosamunda" by Jaromír Vejvoda (1927) ; "Acércate Más" by Osvaldo Farres (1946) ; Beniamino Gigli's "O begli occhi di fata" by Luigi Denza and Tremacoldo (1884)

Apr 16, 2022•10 min

L'arte della gioia

Reading from Goliarda Sapienza's masterpiece, The Art of Joy , featuring Elena Asciutti.

Sep 15, 2021•24 min

Il barone rampante

Reading from Italo Calvino's 1957 novel "The Baron in the Trees" courtesy of Fabrizia Di Francesco, master of theatrical arts. - Credits: Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 - Classical Whimsical di Kevin MacLeod è un brano concesso in uso tramite licenza Creative Commons Attribuzione 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ - Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100303 - Artist: http://incompetech.com/...

Dec 16, 2020•13 min

La bella estate

Reading from 1950 Premio Strega award winner Cesare Pavese's Beautiful Summer. - Credits: "È troppo tardi" by Walter Colì, 1949; "Voglio vivere così" by Giovanni D'Anzi and Tito Manlio, 1941; "Quando l'estate" by Odoardo Spadaro, 1940.

Jul 29, 2020•11 min

La pioggia nel pineto

Rain in the pinewoods, D'Annunzio's masterpiece of poetry. Credits: "L'estate" by Antonio Vivaldi, 1725. Special thanks to my friend Stijn Vermeire, who knows the poem by heart.

May 13, 2020•6 min

Il prete bello

Reading about The Handsome Priest, a 1954 novel by Goffredo Parise, probably his best work as a realist writer. A fresco of ordinary Italians under the Fascist regime. Credits: "Vivere" by Bixio and Brignone, 1936. Featuring: Paola Medri, who read it in grace.

Feb 19, 2020•10 min

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