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Extracts from The Future of Our Memories by Italo Svevo (1925)

- Credits : FairyTale Waltz by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Reading from Dacia Maraini's masterpiece, The Silent Duchess.

From Italy's lakes region to Paris, the adventures of an idle young man in Piero Chiara's Astrakhan coat, featuring Sara Maiorana.

Celebrating a major poet of 1900s, Pier Paolo Pasolini, one hundred years after his birth. 

• Credits : "RV 481, concerto in re minore per fagotto, no. 5" by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Celebrating Morante's Bildungsroman in the year when the island of Procida is the Italian capital of culture.

- Credits : "Senza fine" by Gino Paoli and Ornella Vanoni (1961)

Reading from Goliarda Sapienza's masterpiece, The Art of Joy, featuring Elena Asciutti.

Reading from Italo Calvino's 1957 novel "The Baron in the Trees" courtesy of Fabrizia Di Francesco, master of theatrical arts. -
Credits: Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 - Classical Whimsical di Kevin MacLeod è un brano concesso in uso tramite licenza Creative Commons Attribuzione 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ - Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100303 - Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Reading from 1950 Premio Strega award winner Cesare Pavese's Beautiful Summer. -
Credits: "È troppo tardi" by Walter Colì, 1949; "Voglio vivere così" by Giovanni D'Anzi and Tito Manlio, 1941; "Quando l'estate" by Odoardo Spadaro, 1940.

Rain in the pinewoods, D'Annunzio's masterpiece of poetry.

Credits: "L'estate" by Antonio Vivaldi, 1725.

Special thanks to my friend Stijn Vermeire, who knows the poem by heart.