Patrizia Poli
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Patrizia Poli was born in Livorno in 1961. Writer of fiction and blogger, she published seven novels.
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Gordiano Lupi, "Alla ricerca della Piombino perduta"
Only a reader born in the sixties can welcome this book by Gordiano Lupi, “In search of the lost Piombino”, with a commotion that turns you upside down and knots your throat. The author dedicates the first part to remembrance, to recherche, to retrace one’s steps. We are catapulted backwards, in the early sixties, in a Piombino that has just emerged from the miseries of war and is barely touched by a boom that the inhabitants don’t even notice. A Piombino that seems to leap out of a film by Virzì, divided in half between rich children and children of metalworkers and railway workers, between ice cream parlors and beach resorts where you only go on Sundays and small everyday bars on beaches smelling of stale frying. The love for these memories is absolute, visceral, unconditional. Lupi accepts everything from the past, the beautiful and the monstrous, the shining sea but also the polluted beaches, the undergrowth of the improvised football fields, the crumbling walls, the pungent smells, the steel mill, today a gigantic wreck of industrial archaeology, always looming, always present in the thoughts and words of the inhabitants. “They were romantic times”, he repeats to us. And it is in this romanticism that neorealism dissolves, transforming itself from ideology into sentiment. Everything was beautiful, everything had more grandeur, more thickness, more flavor, everything is embellished, emphasized by the memory. Even the decay, the dilapidation were languid and melancholy. Overbearing, in every chapter and on every page, the feeling of the failure of one’s existence, the idea that the best is now behind us. The dreams have not come true, the path has been interrupted, the aspirations have not materialised.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Paolo Mantioni, "Le età della vita"
“It seems to me that you don’t truly believe in anything you do, you don’t wear yourself out completely, you continue to maintain a control that you need to stay out. But in this way you risk staying out of literature, work and even life.”
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
The Ancient English Cemetery
With the Livornine laws, promulgated by Grand Duke Ferdinando I, starting from 1590, to favor the economy and the repopulation of an unhealthy and malarial zone, the Jewish communities were allowed first, and then all the others, to settle in Livorno. The main purpose was to attract the rich Sephardic communities.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
An excerpt from "The Flight of the Serpent Dragon"
An excerpt from “Flight of the Serpent Dragon” by Patrizia Poli A wound in the red rock. An ocher mouth open in the blue of a sky that knows no clouds: the Ohnigah Mountain chain that splits in two before descending to the stony ground, the mountains dug by the dry Egelloch river bed. On both sides of the dry river bed, the palm grove, an emerald ribbon in a universe of red earth.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Fiction
The Lupi Cemetery
Wondering if “in the shadow of the cypresses and inside the urns comforted by crying the sleep of death is perhaps less hard or not”, I enter the Cimitero dei Lupi, or La Cigna Municipal Cemetery, today at the edge of the port and industrial area of the city of Livorno, near the Cigna stream, in the locality of Santo Stefano dei Lupi. The area takes its name from the Lupi’s Gronda, a vast area that in medieval times extended from Pisa to the village of Labron, so-called by the landowning family. It was precisely the edict of San Cloud, in 1804, to which Foscolo refers in the poem “I Sepolcri”, together with a concomitant yellow fever epidemic, to decree the birth of the new cemetery.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Geeks
Carlo Valentini, "Elvira la modella di Modigliani"
“Death overtook him when he came to glory” Being portrayed by Modì, it was used to say in the milieu, was like “having your soul undressed”. The setting is that of Montmatre and Montparnasse, the portrait in particular stands out on the cover of Carlo Valentini’s book: “Elvira the model of Modigliani.”
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Carlo Valentini, "Elvira la modella di Modigliani"
“Death overtook him when he came to glory” Being portrayed by Modì, it was used to say in the milieu, was like “having your soul undressed”. The setting is that of Montmatre and Montparnasse, the portrait in particular stands out on the cover of Carlo Valentini’s book: “Elvira the model of Modigliani.”
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
