The meetings dedicated to the ‘Revolutionary Objects’ that marked the last century, both in everyday life and in the imagination, continue at the San Carlo Foundation in Modena. Today at 6pm, in the Green Room of the Foundation, the professor of contemporary Italian literature and twentieth-century Italian poetry at the University of Bologna, as well as poet, Alberto Bertoni (photo), will talk about ‘Democratic Inks. Between biro and bic, the pens in revolt, that is, the revolutionary ballpoint pen. The meeting is part of the multi-year ‘Revolutions’ project, promoted by the Collegio San Carlo Foundation, the Modena Historical Institute, the Donna Modena Documentation Center, the Committee for the History and Memories of the Twentieth Century of the Municipality of Modena and the Modena Foundation . “My elementary school teacher Norma Mazzoni certainly had an influence on this study – says Bertoni –. Around 1962 she was considered a revolutionary because she imposed on me and my second grade classmates, in Sant’Agnese Centro in via Prampolini, the the use of a tool that was still unusual for the time, the ballpoint pen: more precisely the very thin and elegant pelikanina. More than sixty years later, I realize the importance of that choice”. msc
