2015 Programme
Event #33
Daria Galateria, Emanuele Trevi
The aviator’s tale
Sitting in a New York restaurant, in 1942, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry began to draw a small blonde boy on the tablecloth, in clumsy, almost childish lines. «What’s that?», asked Curtis Hitchcock, his American editor along with Eugene Reynal. «A child I carry in my heart», answered Antoine. His editors’ insistence that he turn the doodle into a children’s story gave birth to The Little Prince, one of the three most-read books in the world: it has sold more than 140 million copies, and has been translated into more than 250 languages. Coinciding with the expiration of the copyright on the book (January 1st 2015), and with the publication of new editions and translations, Daria Galateria and Emanuele Trevi trace the history of “the 20th century’s most beautiful fairy tale” and of its author, attempting to untangle the mystery it hides.
Moderator: Mattia Carratello, Sellerio editor.
teaches French Literature at Università La Sapienza in Rome. She has written about Proust, Buffon, Jean Giono, Paul Morand. Her works published by Sellerio include Fughe dal Re Sole. Memorie di cortigiani riluttanti (1996), Entre nous (2002), Mestieri di scrittori (2007) and Scritti galeotti. Narratori in catene dal Settecento a oggi (2012). She wrote the afterword to the new edition of The Little Prince published by Sellerio (2015). She writes for la Repubblica.
is a writer and literary critic. His most famous books include I cani del nulla. Una storia vera (Einaudi, 2003), Senza verso. Un’estate a Roma (Laterza, 2005), Qualcosa di scritto (Ponte alle Grazie, 2012) and Il viaggio iniziatico («i Libri del Festival della Mente», Laterza, 2013). He translated and edited the edition of The Little Prince published by Newton Compton (2015). He collaborates with Radio 3 and writes for Corriere della Sera and il manifesto.
Event #6
Alessandro Barbero
The historian's responsibility. Gaetano Salvemini: from Socialist interventionism to anti-Fascism
Event #8Approfonditamente
Marco Rossi-Doria, Giulia Tosoni
Kids and school: what, how and where are they learning
Event #13Approfonditamente
Adolfo Ceretti, Simonetta Agnello Hornby, Alfredo Verde
Gender-based violence: Perpetrators, victims and models of intervention.
Event #22
Alessandro Barbero
The historian’s responsibility. Marc Bloch: from the Sorbonne to the Gestapo prisons
Event #25Approfonditamente
Marco Belpoliti, Gianfranco Marrone, Anna Stefi
Laziness, fatigue, and our constant running
Event #26
Eugenio Borgna, Simonetta Fiori
Knowing ourselves and knowing others: a different way of being responsible
Event #35
James R. Flynn, Armando Massarenti
Without an alibi: a voyage across life’s greatest questions
Event #38
Alessandro Barbero
The historian’s responsibility. Ernst Kantorowicz: from the Freikorps to McCarthyism
Event #57Children / Kids
Sante Bandirali e Lorenza Pozzi di uovonero
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