Quarenghi and Gabos present the book “Veloce Afar History of letters, messages and messengers”

Friday 24 May at 10.30 am, in the historic room of the Oratory San Crispinoì alla Libreria Bookboy of Ferrara Giusi Quarenghi and Otto Gabos present the book “Quick away History of letters, messages and messengers” (Topipittori). A proposal in collaboration with Ferrara meets publishing and promoted by the University of Ferrara. The students of the Istituto Comprensivo C. Govoni dialogue with the authors.

We read on the back cover: In the beginning was the message. Something important, serious, necessary, new, strange, beautiful, curious… something to know or to let someone else know. Simple, if you are close; but what if you are far away? If you are far away, it must be entrusted to something or someone: to a messenger. From the tales of antiquity we know of special messengers who go fast and very far: Hermes for the Greeks, Mercury for the Romans, the very fast Pheidippides who arrived in Athens in a single day starting from Marathon, then the angels, the trained and employed carrier pigeons for urgent and secret communications and, again, the very courageous partisan relays.

Giusi Quarenghi she is an author of children’s literature. You have written and published short stories, nursery rhymes, short stories, popular texts, screenplays, novels, texts for the theatre, poems; she has retold fairy tales, myths, sacred stories; she held training meetings on reading-writing-narration-poetry. She was born in Sottochiesa in Val Taleggio in 1951, she lives in Bergamo.

Otto Gabos was born in Cagliari on 31 May 1962 and lives and works in Bologna. He is a teacher in the Comics and Illustration course at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. Since his debut in 1985, for Tempi Supplementari, a magazine of the Frigidaire group, he has been part of the main comics movements, collaborating with various magazines, including Nova Express, Dolce Vita, Cyborg of which he was also editor, Mondo Naif and Fuego of which was co-founder. He has received several awards including the Micheluzzi award at the Comicon in Naples, the Caran d’Ache at the Expocartoon in Rome, two Boscarato at the TCBF in Treviso and the recent and prestigious Andersen award for the series Revolutions as illustrator for the best editorial series.