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2021 Programme

Event #24

Daniele Aristarco

The origins of species

Beside being a wonderful scientist and adventurous traveler, Charles Darwin was a great writer. Starting from the Origin of Species, his masterpiece and one of humanity's most important books, we will investigate our origin and try to tell about it in a creative writing laboratory.

Daniele Aristarco was born in Naples. He taught literature in middle school and then devoted himself to children's books, cinema and theater. He is the author of several short stories and popular essays including La divina commedia. Il primo passo nella selva oscura (Einaudi Ragazzi, 2021), Il giardino dei giusti (Einaudi ragazzi, 2021), L’origine delle specie (Edizioni EL, 2021).

2021 Programme

Event #24

Daniele Aristarco

The origins of species

Dante and the creation of literary Italian language

Stories of life

Origin of wisdom: the enigma

may '43

Origins of civil wars. The English Civil War

From Homo sapiens to Homo caelestis: the beginning of a new era

Origin of feelings

Do not worry, you’re home

The birth of book in the ancient world

Fathers and masters

I start again from here

Fresh twenties

Origins of civil wars. The American civil war

War to retoric

Dreaming of a new cohexistance

Climate change: origins, calamities, hopes

Origins and future of the livings

A private matter

Origins of Russian literature

Origins of philosophy: dialectic

Alexander von Humboldt: origin of ecology

Origins of civil wars. The French civil war

Bright thoughts

The origins of species

What's in my mind?

What was I before myself?

Everything starts from chaos

Essential objects

An istant called desire

Dante's monsters… and ours too!

Small storytellers

Layers of memory

The origins of art