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Irene Ferrarese

Elena — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 07:40:26 +0000

Irene Ferrarese is an art educator and head of the Artebambini branch in Lucca. Artebambini is a training organization recognized by the Italian Ministry of Education and a publishing house specializing in illustrated books for children, teenagers, and adults. It embraces the arts as an active pretext for discovering cultures, learning, storytelling, invention, and personal growth.

Didier Fassin

Martina Ricciardi — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 07:32:15 +0000

Didier Fassin is an anthropologist, sociologist, and physician, and a professor at the Collège de France and the Institute for Advanced Study. He has edited thirty collective volumes and authored twenty books, including Punire. Una passione contemporanea (2018), Le vite ineguali. Quanto vale un essere umano (2019), and, with Anne-Claire Defossez, Umanità in esilio. Cronache dalla frontiera alpina (2025), translated by Lorenzo Alunni and published in Italy by Feltrinelli.

Antonella Fioravanti

Martina Ricciardi — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:10:34 +0000

Antonella Fioravanti is a scientist pioneering innovative approaches to disarm pathogenic bacteria. Her research – featured in journals such as Nature Microbiology – has advanced new strategies to combat antibiotic-resistant infections. She has received international accolades, including the EOS Pipet Award (2020) from the Royal Academy of Belgium, and has served as a scientific advisor at the Italian Embassy in Brussels. Currently, she is a guest professor at ULB, an evaluator for the European Innovation Council, and President of the Parsec Foundation. Alongside her scientific work, she is committed to science communication, public policy, and championing women in STEM. In 2022, she was named Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy by President Mattarella. Viaggio nel mondo invisibile (Aboca, 2025) is her debut book.

Alessandra Faiella

Festival della Mente — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 09:49:12 +0000

Alessandra Faiella is a theatre and television comedian. She began her career with Dario Fo and Franca Rame, and worked with famous Italian actors including Max Pisu, Marina Massironi and Corrado Tedeschi. She took part in many television programmes, including Zelig and Colorado. In cinema, he has worked alongside Ambra Angiolini and Giovanni Storti. He has published books with Garzanti, Fazi and Mondadori.
ph. credits: Laila Pozzo

Erika Fatland

Festival della Mente — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 07:16:25 +0000

Erika Fatland (b. 1983 in Haugesund, Norway) achieved her international breakthrough with Sovietistan (2014), for which she was awarded the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize. She has an M.A. in social anthropology from the University of Oslo and the University of Copenhagen. Earlier works include The Village of Angels. Stories from Beslan (2011) and The Year Without Summer (2012). Her most recent books, The Border. A Journey around Russia (2017) and High. A Journey across the Himalaya (2019) were both shortlisted for Terzani Award and The Edward Standford Travel Book of the Year. In 2021 she won the Kapuściński Award for reportage. Her books are translated into 27 languages. She is currently working on a book about the Portuguese Empire.
ph. credits: Tine Poppe

Cristiana Farina

Festival della Mente — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 14:12:50 +0000

Cristiana Farina is a screenwriter, author and creator of TV series. Her latest work is the successful TV series Mare Fuori.

Alessandro Fo

Festival della Mente — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 08:08:33 +0000

Alessandro Fo teaches Latin Literature at the University of Siena. He translated and curated for Einaudi: Apuleius, Le Metamorfosi (2010) and La Favola di Amore e Psiche (2014); Virgilius, Eneide (2012); Catullus, Poetry (2018). Among his poetry books: Mancanze (Einaudi, 2014); Esseri umani (L’Arcolaio, 2018).

Antonio Forcellino

Festival della Mente — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 12:48:21 +0000

Antonio Forcellino, architect, restorer and writer, he restored some of the major pieces of Renaissance Italian art: Michelagelo’s grave for Giulio II in San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome, the facade of Pinturicchio’s Libreria Piccolomini and Michelangelo’s Altre Piccolomini in the Dome of Siena. His essays include the biographies of the three major Italian artists: Michelangelo. Una vita inquieta (Laterza, 2005), Raffaello. Una vita felice (Laterza, 2008), Leonardo. Genio senza pace (Laterza, 2016), being translated into the principal foreign languages. By the end of August the historical book Il cavallo di bronzo. L’avventura di Leonardo, first volume of the trilogy Il secolo dei Giganti, will be published by HarperCollins Italia.

Anna Foa

Festival della Mente — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 10:21:41 +0000

Anna Foa taught Modern history at the Sapienza University in Rome. Her research has focused on the Inquisition, witch-hunts, Jewish history and the Shoah. Her books include Ebrei in Europa. Dalla Peste Nera all’emancipazione (Laterza, 1992), Giordano Bruno (Il Mulino, 1999), Eretici. Storie di streghe, ebrei e convertiti (Il Mulino, 2004), Diaspora. Storia degli ebrei nel Novecento (Laterza, 2009), Portico d’Ottavia 13. Una casa del ghetto nel lungo inverno del ‘43 (Laterza, 2013), La famiglia F. (Laterza, 2018), Andare per i luoghi di confino (Il Mulino, 2018). She is a contributing writer for Osservatore Romano and Pagine ebraiche.

Michele Ferri

Festival della Mente — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 09:13:58 +0000

è un illustratore, pittore e violinista. Hais an illustrator, painter and violinist. He illustrated the book Il narratore by Saki (Orecchio Acerbo, 2007). illustrato Il narratore di Saki (Orecchio Acerbo, 2007).