BASSANI LIBRARY – Appointment Tuesday 28 May 2024 at 4.45 pm in via Grosoli 42 (Barco – Ferrara)
It will be dedicated to the book “The Countess. Virginia Verasis of Castiglione“, Of Benedetta Craveri the next reading group meetingThe forgotten writers” scheduled Tuesday 28 May at 4.45pm, at the Giorgio Bassani municipal library (via G. Grosoli 42, Barco – Ferrara). He will lead the meeting Rossana Gallio.
The reading group is made up of people who read a book chosen together in private. The reading is then shared: we talk about the book, we delve into its themes, we share the emotions we feel.
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THE SHEET (by the organizers)
“The Countess. Virginia Verasis di Castiglione”
All of us – thanks to the writings of witnesses and biographers, to films and television dramas, as well as to the many photographic portraits that have been published and exhibited in recent years – believe we know who the Countess of Castiglione was: a “serial seductress” of incomparable beauty who, after having conquered (according to the instructions received from the Count of Cavour) Napoleon III and dazzled the court of the Second Empire, closed herself in a house without mirrors, hiding her unstoppable decadence from her own eyes and those of the world. But she who Robert de Montesquiou consecrated forever as “la divine comtesse” was much more, and Benedetta Craveri, who has tracked down a huge amount of totally unpublished letters in the Italian and French archives, lets us discover it by letting it be Virginia to tell us about herself: her loves, her ambitions, her fears, her obsessions. Thus, surprising aspects of a woman who knew how to use her charm, but also her political intelligence, her audacity, her will to dominate, her extraordinary ability as a comedian, and also a good dose of cynicism, to achieve an unimaginable goal at the time: freely disposing of one’s existence. A rebellion against the rules imposed by the morality of the bourgeois century which, Craveri writes, “has kept its incendiary force intact and which still today disturbs, disconcertes and scandalises”.
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