It is one of the most evocative places of the Bolognese summer, the convent of the Franciscan nuns of the Immaculate Conception, in via Santa Margherita. And its return for the second year, starting from May 20th to July 10th, as a literary salon, tells a lot about the infinite alliances possible in our city. Culture is united, it seems clear, because Words in the Cloister, the title of the hosted exhibition, is a proposal by biblioteca.coop Ambasciatori which immediately found favor with Sister Chiara Cavazza, the first nun to join the episcopal council of ‘Archdiocese, one of the five sisters of the Convent, which has long wanted to open the doors of “home” to all the people of Bologna. And, given the response last year, with over 100 chairs occupied at each event, it seems that the people of Bologna had a great desire to enter this place with roots that go back to antiquity. The debut of Parole nel Chiostro (free admission meetings) will be on May 20th at 7pm with an appointment dedicated to Joseph Conrad and Giuseppe Mendicino Conrad’s book. A life without borders, attended by Elena Di Gioia and Anna Lina Molteni. On May 28, following the biographical thread, the spotlight will be on Kafka, reread by the writer Giorgio Fontana, through a literary investigation that will lead us to discover the profound secrets of literature.
On 19 June George Simenon told by one of his most esteemed translators Simona Mambrini and by Valerio Varesi and, at the end of the cycle, on 3 July Leopardi a novelistic poet with Marco Antonio Bazzocchi. Good representation of Bolognese authors such as Grazia Verasani who brings her new novel Hotel Madridda to the cloister on May 30th, which contains a vision of the future filtered through an often confused and painful present, Giulia Baldelli who on July 8th talks about her novel Le words that you left me and Filippo Venturi, on 9 July, which proposes The Window Crime, a new case for the detective innkeeper Emilio Zucchini.
In June, two events for the younger ones: in addition to the meeting on the 3rd with the young musical promise Gianmaria Volpato, the following day will be the turn of Valentina Romani, protagonist of Mare Fuori, with an exciting novel: True as Love. A reflection on the female world of work conducted on 10 June by Irene Soave with her sentimental investigation in The Statute of Workers, accompanied by Agnese Pini, director of Quotidiano Nazionale, il Resto del Carlino, la Nazione, il Giorno and Luce!.
