The images of Justice in Leonardo Sciascia and Nicola Curzio’s Looks on contemporary cinema
A meeting in the name of the symbolic correspondences between Nicola Curzio’s profound views on contemporary cinema and the return of Sciascia’s torment on the theme of “The possibilities that perhaps still remain for justice”, as evoked in the epigraph, taken from F. Dürrenmatt, by “A simple story”. In fact, Sciasciano’s latest novel draws inspiration from the theft of an “image”, the canvas of the “Nativity with Saints Lorenzo and Francis of Assisi” by Caravaggio, which occurred in Palermo in 1969.
The event conceived and organized by the Agrigento Bar Association in collaboration with the Sicilia Mater cultural column is included among the initiatives of the May of books 2024 “If you read you will free yourself” and has the patronage of the National Association of Magistrates district section of Palermo, of the Nicola Curzio Foundation, of the Valle dei Templi Archaeological Park of Agrigento and of the Chiaramontane Factories of the Orestiadi Foundation which host the event.
And the two volumes being presented draw a line of connection and symbolic affinities between the legal spheres explored in the publication edited by the Council of the Bar Association of Agrigento “About Law, Truth, Justice” collection of the proceedings of two conferences dedicated to Leonardo Sciascia, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth, and to his incessant and current questions on the theme of Justice, and the dizzying reflections on contemporary cinema opened by Nicola Curzio in “Before everything returns dark” published by Laterza.
After greetings from Beniamino Biondi, Director of the Factories of Agrigento, from Calogero Pumilia, President of the Orestiadi Foundation, from Giuseppe Tango, President of the ANM, district section of Palermo, and from Vincenza Gaziano, President of the Council of the Bar Association of Agrigento, the moderator Diego Guadagnino, Lawyer of the Court of Agrigento, introduces the various interventions planned. Speakers on the volume “Apropos of Law, Truth, Justice” include: Aurora Notarianni, Lawyer of the Court of Messina and Stefano Zammuto, Magistrate.
On Nicola Curzio’s book “Prima che tuttotorn cuore” published by Laterza, followed by the contributions of Salvo Presti “We will remember these images”, Fabrizio Catalano “The stolen imagination” and Antonina Nocera “The great Inquisition. A comparison between Sciascia and Dostoevskji on the themes of Freedom and Justice”. At the end of the meeting, the speech by Pietro Curzio, former First President of the Court of Cassation.
Finally, the screening of extracts from films by Atom Egoyan, Miguel Gomes, Gabriel Mascaro, Abel Ferrara etc. and from the film “A simple story” by Emidio Greco.
