The Municipality of Galeata has organized the presentation of the latest book by the Forlì writer Paolo Cortesi entitled “Fifty things you don’t know about Paris. Places, facts and characters that you can’t find in tourist guides” (Intermedia Edizioni, 2024), which will take place Tuesday 25 June, at 9.00 pm, at the Cloister of the Mambrini Museum in Pianetto-Galeata (in case of bad weather the conference will be hosted in the museum conference room).
Cortesi’s book, based only on historical documents, accompanies the reader to discover monuments and homes that witnessed curious and tragic events, providing you with precise indications to identify them. In fact, when can we say we truly know a city like Paris? Certainly not following the tourist trends that inevitably lead to queuing to enter the Eiffel Tower or the Louvre. To approach authentic Paris you need to immerse yourself in the dark and forgotten history of the French capital. The events, facts, characters, buildings that shaped the appearance and nature of Paris: rich and miserable, witches and saints, alchemists and scientists, visionaries and rebels, criminals and philanthropists, painters and merchants, lovers and depraved ; squalid hovels and sumptuous palaces, splendors and miseries, genius and madness: a rich, unpredictable universe, with a thousand facets, populated by an equally surprising humanity.
Paolo Cortesi, writer and essayist, was born in Forlì, where he lives and works. He has published several essays on the history of Western culture and is the author of the television program Testimoni, broadcast by Rai Storia. His debut novel, Il fuoco, la carne (Perdisa), won the Todaro-Faranda Prize in 2003, while his biography Cagliostro (Newton Compton) won the 2005 Castiglioncello Prize.
The event will continue on 2 July with Giuseppe Ghini and 10 July with Massimiliano Morini
For info: Culture Office 0543-975428 – Museum 0543-981854
