«A company almost impossible to accuse Vittorini Editore, Vittorini Talent Scout, Vittorini who, directing his necklaces, discovered many authors. I can only accuse the intolerance and heaviness with which he did it ». The debut of the indictment of Professor Antonio di Grado by lets the outcome of the trial to Vittorini Editore, one of the most anticipated appointments of the Victorinian week who will end tomorrow at 20.30 at the ancient market of Ortigia, with the proclamation of the winner of the Elio Vittorini 2025 prize for which Giuseppe Catozzella are in Lizza with “The flower of the illusions” (Feltrinelli); Wanda Marasco with “From behind to this world” (Neri Pozza), and Elisabetta Rasy with “lost this sea” (Rizzoli).
The magistrate Simona Lo Iacono, winner of the past edition, chaired the court by acquitting Vittorini because the fact does not exist but putting back to another judge the assessment of the damages of a patrimonial nature. According to the Court “the damage, of an exquisitely patrimonial nature, which Vittorini caused the publishing houses for which he worked, deprived of the nourishment of” Il Gattopardo “and” The Lord of the Rings “, can be evaluated in positive terms.
The same prof. He had recalled that “Vittorini as well as when he translated American writers reduced them to Vittorini’s books, he did the same with the Italian authors. A sensational case is that of Stefano D’Arrigo to whom he caused unwary neurosis struggling with the masterpiece “Horcynus Orca” that was never good and that D’Arrigo rewritten incessantly. Or when he banned the best of international culture, from Croce Mann, as authors to be erased because they are accomplices of fascism ».
The work of the defense entrusted to Professor Salvatore Ferlita, professor of contemporary Italian literature at the Kore University of Enna: “Two necklaces of Bompiani, Corona and Pantheon, they would already be enough to pay him glory with the imperishable: Vittorini was always ahead of the others and even when he did great books such as the one dedicated to American literature or the Spanish theater, he tried to extend a look at the borders. “The tokens”, Einaudi’s necklace, represent a milestone in the history of literature of the second 900. We think of the editorial work on “American” and the iconographic apparatus that accompanies the selection of the texts: there is a choice of images that seem to anticipate Instagram, with photos that testify to everyday life, the architectural beauties, fashion “. The popular jury also expressed judgment of non -guilt.
The debate on “Industry and Literature: the Utopia of Vittorini”, protagonists Daniele Pitteri, Superintendent of investigating, Gian Piero Reale, president of Confindustria Syracuse, the semiologist except for sequinzia, the president of the Syracusan society of History of the Patria Salvatore Santuccio, the Professor Francesco Ortisi and the writer Emma di Rao. The editorial one was among the first “industries” that already in the 19th century began to successfully experiment with diversified productions to meet the different tastes of readers. A challenge still open today if you look between opportunities and risks to artificial intelligence.