
I Capolavori del cinema
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Mario Fortunato, for years one of the most controversial protagonists of Italian public life, currently the controversial director of the Italian Institute of Culture in London, published his first novel The First Sky in 1990.
The novel The Materassi Sisters, published in 1934, is the most famous work of the Italian writer Aldo Palazzeschi. The story is set in the suburb of Florence, Santa Maria a Coverciano, between 1918 and 1928.
The touching and painfully honest dialogue of a mother with her unborn child, written by the famous Italian journalist and writer Oriana Fallaci, has been delighting generations of readers around the world for decades.
In Florence 1925–1926, in the poor Via del Corno, the residents live in love, poverty and fear. The arrival of fascism destroys the community: lovers fight, some die from violence, but popular solidarity survives.
Although the songs of this artistic genius cannot be compared to his artistic creations, his canconiere composed of 302 songs confirms the author's exceptional artistic and human personality.
The novel is an important representative of verismo, Italian realism, and depicts the lives of people from the south of Italy, especially the conflicts between the poor peasantry and the decaying aristocracy.