2017 Program
Event #3
Matteo Nucci, Valentina Carnelutti
The net of Eros. Seduction
Eros is a hunter. He drives prey into Aphrodites’ “inescapable net”, as Ibycus states in one of his poems, while Saffo most eloquently depicts her net and the feelings of those trapped within it: eyes without sight, ears buzzing, sweat flowing, tremors. For the net of the aphrodisia – that is, the aphrodisiac desires that sent Helen into confusion at the sight of Paris and made Zeus into an indomitable predator – is a “steep and irresistible” trap, as Hesiodus wrote of the gift sent to humans by the gods through Pandora’s vase. At the time, Plato judged it the most potent among those present in the human soul, and chose it for this reason: an invincible net for capturing the young and spurring them to the soul’s liberation. But how does one free a trapped soul?
Matteo Nucci is author of novels, short stories, reportages and essays. He published the novels Sono comuni le cose degli amici (Ponte alle Grazie, 2009) and È giusto obbedire alla notte (Ponte alle Grazie, 2017) both finalist at Premio Strega, together with the novel-essay Il toro non sbaglia mai (Ponte alle Grazie, 2011) and L’abisso di Eros (Ponte alle Grazie, 2018). He translated the translation of Plato’s Symposium (Einaudi, 2009) and the narrative essays Le lacrime degli eroi (Einaudi, 2013) and Achille e Odisseo. La ferocia e l’inganno (Einaudi, 2020). His short stories have been published in collections and magazines, and his reportages on Il Venerdì di Repubblica and L’Espresso and online on minima et moralia. He is editor of a taurine culture website: www.uominietori.it. In September his latest novel Sono difficili le cose belle will be published by HarperCollins.
actress and author, nominated this year for the Nastro d’Argento, has been directed by M. T. Giordana (La meglio gioventù), T. Angelopoulos (La polvere del tempo), P. Virzì (Tutta la vita davanti, La pazza gioia), C. Maselli (Le ombre rosse), A. Orlando (Sfiorarsi) and many others. She is the author of Sfiorarsi (A. Orlando) and of the film ReCuiem which she also directed. She also directed the documentary Melkam Zena in Ethiopia and the videoclip Le conseguenze dell’ingenuità.
Event #14Approfonditamente
Matteo Cerri
Keeping cool: hibernation and the exotic network of its physiology
Event #24
Alessandro Barbero
Clandestine networks. A network of partisans: the GAP groups in Rome and the attack in Via Rasella
Event #33Approfonditamente
C. Borgomeo, U. Bressanello, G. De Michelis, G. Giunta, V. Linarello
From silent social work to community networks
Event #41
Alessandro Barbero
Clandestine networks. A network of terrorists: the Red Brigades and the kidnapping of Aldo Moro
Event #52Children / Kids
Anna Resmini, Virginia Zini
Shapes of sound. Stories of encounters between sound and color
Event #57Children / Kids
Students of the I.I.S. Capellini-Sauro school of La Spezia, ScienziataMente
Find the culprit… with math!
