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Pellicanolibri
{{Infobox company , name = Pellicanolibri , foundation = 1976 , founder = Beppe Costa , logo = LogoPellicanolibri.jpg , logo_size = 300px , type = , location = Rome, Italy , area_served = , key_people = , owner = , num_employees = , industry = Books, Publishing , products = Books , revenue = , homepage = The Pellicanolibri editions is a publishing house founded in 1976 in Catania by the poet and writer Beppe Costa, with the specific intent to highlight authors and discover forgotten or unknown youth. Story Pellicanolibri editions was created with the help of some academics: Gastone Manacorda, Giuseppe Barone, Antonino Recupero, Salvatore Lupo. It isn't born with the only purpose of publishing, but with the strong and specific intent to introduce in Italy (up to 85 in Sicily), Italian and foreign authors. From 1978 to 1996 the contribution of Dario Bellezza, gives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beppe Costa
Beppe Costa (born Concetto Costa, on , Catania, Italy) is an Italian poet, novelist and publisher. Biography The beginning Born into a poor family grows, however, in an environment rich in books. He published the first volume of poems in 1970 Casa della Poesia: bibliography of Beppe Costa.(''Una poltrona comoda'', Giuseppe Di Maria editore), characterized, like the others that follow, by the theme of love and nonconformity. Beppe Costa Beppe wrote and published two tour guides, first at local level, ''Catania, Guida ai monumenti'', and the second at regional level, ''Sicilia, Guida ai monumenti'', both with Muglia publisher. Translated two books of the playwright Fernando Arrabal. In 1978 he met the poet |
Dario Bellezza
Dario Bellezza (5 September 1944 – 31 March 1996) was an Italian poet, author and playwright. He won the Viareggio, Gatto, and Montale prizes. Biography Dario Bellezza was born in Rome on 5 September 1944. After his studies at a ''liceo classico'' in his native city, from which he graduated in 1962, he worked for several Italian literary and poetry magazines: ''Paragone'', ''Carte segrete'', ''Bimestre'', ''Periferia'', and ''Il Policordo''. Bellezza entered the Roman intellectual world in the mid-1960s when, thanks to literary critic and writer Enzo Siciliano, he became increasingly close to Sandro Penna, Aldo Palazzeschi, Attilio Bertolucci, Alberto Moravia, and Elsa Morante, who eventually became a confidant. The decade from 1950-1960 was a period in which the working class, the Italian Communist Party, the trade unions, and all their hopes for radical cultural change were dramatically defeated. The political and economic growth of the Christian Democrat middle class and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luce D'Eramo
Luce d’Eramo (June 17, 1925 in Reims – March 6, 2001 in Rome) was an Italian writer and literary critic. She is best known for her autobiographical novel ''Deviazione'', which recounts her experiences in Germany during World War II. D’Eramo’s writings are characterized by interest toward controversial subjects and a search of solutions that would liberate people from physical and mental constraints. Biography Early life Luce d’Eramo (née Lucette Mangione) was born in 1925 in Reims, France. The daughter of Italian parents, she lived in France until the age of fourteen. Her father, an illustrator and painter, lived in Paris from 1912 until 1915 and went back to Italy to fight in the Italian army during the First World War, as a military airplane pilot. After the war he got married and the couple moved back to France where he started a building company. Luce was the youngest of three daughters, of whom the oldest one died in infancy. Her mother served as a voluntary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adele Cambria
Adele Cambria (12 July 1931 in Reggio Calabria – 5 November 2015 in Rome) was an Italian journalist, writer, and actress. Biography She was a central figure in Italian culture before, during, and after the 1968 movement alongside Camilla Cederna and Oriana Fallaci, and was close to the progressive left and to the Partito Radicale under Marco Pannella. She was also a longtime supporter of the feminist movement. Cambria collaborated with newspapers and magazines and published several books. She graduated in law from the Università degli Studi di Messina. She became involved with journalism in 1956 after moving to Rome, where she remained until her death. An author of narrative works (and of other genres) intended for the theater, she was a founder of the Teatro La Maddalena in Rome alongside Dacia Maraini. She was also a friend of Pier Paolo Pasolini and acted in several of his films. With other progressive intellectuals she gave her support and authority as the director of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catania
Catania (, , Sicilian and ) is the second largest municipality in Sicily, after Palermo. Despite its reputation as the second city of the island, Catania is the largest Sicilian conurbation, among the largest in Italy, as evidenced also by the presence of important road and rail transport infrastructures as well as by the main airport in Sicily, fifth in Italy. It is located on Sicily's east coast, at the base of the active volcano, Mount Etna, and it faces the Ionian Sea. It is the capital of the 58-municipality region known as the Metropolitan City of Catania, which is the seventh-largest metropolitan city in Italy. The population of the city proper is 311,584, while the population of the Metropolitan City of Catania is 1,107,702. Catania was founded in the 8th century BC by Chalcidian Greeks. The city has weathered multiple geologic catastrophes: it was almost completely destroyed by a catastrophic earthquake in 1169. A major eruption and lava flow from nearby Mount Etna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARRABA
Arraba ( ar, عرّابة) can refer to the following: *Arraba, Israel *Arraba, Jenin Other *Arabah See also *Araba (other) Araba may refer to: Places and jurisdictions * the Ancient Arab Kingdom of Hatra, a Roman-Parthian buffer state in modern Iraq * Basque name of Álava, a province and medieval bishopric (now Latin titular see) in the autonomous Basque country, ... * Arriba (other) {{place name disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Pazzi
Roberto Pazzi (born 1946, in Ameglia, Italy) is an Italian novelist and poet. His works have been translated into twenty six languages. Pazzi graduated in classics in Bologna with a thesis on Luciano Anceschi and aesthetics on the poetry of Umberto Saba. He taught cultural anthropology and the philosophy of history and sociology of art and literature in high school and a college in Ferrara. His first poems appeared in a poetry anthology in the magazine ''Arte e poesia'' in 1970. His collections of verse are: ''L'esperienza anteriore'' (I dispari, 1973), ''Versi occidentali'' (Rebellato 1976), ''Il re, le parole'' (Lacaita, 1980), ''Calma di vento'' (Garzanti, 1987), ''Il filo delle bugie'' (Corbo, 1994), ''La gravità dei corpi'' (Palomar, 1998) and ''Talismani'' (Marietti 2003). He published his first novel ''Cercando l'Imperatore'' in 1985. The novel was translated into 12 languages and won the Premio Bergamo. He followed ''Cercando l'Imperatore'' with various historic nov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
