Serena Bortone will be the next guest of ‘Incontri Capitali’: the journalist, author and television presenter is expected in Pesaro on Monday 29 April to present her debut novel “A te Neighbor So Sweet” (Rizzoli) in dialogue with the writer and literary critic Giulia Ciarapica (Alusfera in Piazza del Popolo at 6.30pm). Bortone, recently returning from the controversy following Rai’s decision to cancel Antonio Scurati’s monologue scheduled for the ‘CheSarà’ broadcast she hosted, begins the novel with a tender and at the same time courageous story that speaks to us of love and of friendship in that season of life in which feelings seem to prevail over everything. The story is set in Rome at the end of the 1980s, when the Internet didn’t yet exist in Italy and information only passed through chatter or books. At the center, the friendship between Serena and Vittoria and what happens in their lives when love erupts, decisive and devastating. When Vittoria and Paolo fall in love, Serena will have the difficult task of discovering the truth about him, in a contrast between victims and executioners that will undermine every certainty. Between twists and betrayals, complicity, illusions and traumas, Bortone gives us the story of an era and the portrait of a generation that she discovers has never been as free as they made her believe.
The ‘Capital Encounters’ events will then continue on Tuesday 30 April with the lectio magistralis by Sandra Mazzoli, microbiologist and virologist on the topic ‘Microbiomes and microbiota in human evolution’ (Pesaro, Alusfera in Piazza del Popolo at 6.30 pm). The event is promoted by Pesaro Italian Capital of Culture in collaboration with Passaggi Cultura. The entire program on Pesaro2024.it.
