The “Paride” literary festival for the May of Books 2025 is aimed at conclusion with two exceptional guests. Friday 30 at 18:30, in the suggestive garden of the Villa Paola hotel, the young cultural popularizer Giacomo Visconti He will be present again in Tropea after his participation during the “Telemaco” review of 2023. The author Emiliano will present his first novel “An almost perfect year” published by Rizzoli. The young professor Alessandro Laghi goes from the province of Bologna to Rome to teach in a scientific high school. In the classroom he enters with the books for the lessons, but also with the enthusiasm of those who know they have a group of guys in front of them who will learn from him and, at the same time, will teach him something precious. The story of Alessandro intertwines with that of Serena, Marco, Jocelyn, Edoardo, Rebecca, Christian and Paolo. There are their dreams and their fears, errors and lessons they learn, which do not always concern literature. A year of life, in a choral novel on the great challenges that anyone, at any age, is facing.
On Saturday 31 at 18:00 he will close in the chapel of the nobles, the art historian and social popularizer Rey skiutto, a multifaceted native author of Pizzo and affirmed promoter of art distinguished nationally with his irreverent calabro ingenuity. Title of the thematic meeting on the dissemination of art will be “uncomfortable: the works of art that have scandalized and that will scandalize you.” In this monologue the works of art that have made scandal, caused debates and broken and broken the social, political and religious conventions of their time will be explored. From The Demoiselles d’Avignon of Picasso, which overturned the concept of beauty, a Klimt’s kissa symbol of a bold and boldly “desecrating” intimacy, up to the provocative naked of Egon Schiele and the symbolic violence of Michelangelo’s pityeven reaching Robert Mapplethorpe passing through Caravaggio. Each work is an act of rebellion, a challenge to order and an invitation to look beyond the usual. The monologue mixes irony and deeper reflections on art as a tool of breaking and change. A journey through the creations that have shaken the world and that, after some time, continue to make us question what is “right” or “acceptable” in art and society. For the occasion, the book “Michelangelo is not a turtle and eight other things that (perhaps) do not know about art” will be presented, a work before of Rey Sciutto where he does not lose his caustic and ironic style giving us a series of curiosities about the history of art.
It will be a last weekend of May with two high -level cultural events not to be missed, in the setting of an Liberty -style villa that became hotels in Excellence with Giacomo Visconti and in the Sacral Aura of a Patrizia church overlooking the sea with Rey Sciutto, the two illustrious guests of the Literary review Paride will seal with their talent the prestigious cultural program that has enriched the spring events of Tropea.