Saturday 15 June, at 4pm, a very welcome return to Ozzano Monferrato at the Casa delle Arti in Via Trotti 1 of the writer Valeria Palumbo, for the presentation of her new book “S’avanza la mia ombra a passi di lupa” published by Enciclopedia delle Donne and dedicated to Romaine Brooks and the incendiary artists – writers, painters, actresses: Ida Rubinstein, Colette, Djuna Barnes, Renée Vivien and many others who theorized and made public their rejection of conventions by living openly and provocatively free, in creating and ‘love. “New” women, to whom a square, a street, or a page in a school book has rarely been dedicated, as if their revolution, public and private, should be obscured.
The exciting musical accompaniment by Carlo Rotondo will underline the salient moments of the author’s story.
Valeria Palumbo is a journalist and writer, one of the greatest experts on the history of women and their rights and editor-in-chief of the weekly Today. She was editor-in-chief of The European and of Global Foreign Policyworked for the Gazzetta dello SportThe Corriere della Sera, Friend And Capital. Correspondent for the Italian Swiss Radio, he is a contract professor of radio and web TV at the University of Milan. He collaborates with institutions, research bodies and associations. Among his books, we remember Lend me your face (2003), Undress as a man (2007); Lilith’s daughters (2008), Alpha girl time (2009), Mother’s genes (2013), I’d rather drown myself. Dizzying history of spinsters (2018), The Epic of Lunatics. Stories of rebel astronomers (2018), Veronica Franco, the courtesan poet of the Venetian Renaissance (2019), Not for me alone – History of Italian women through novels (2020),The woman who dared to love herself. Investigation into the Countess of Castiglione”, (2021).
Frequently a guest on television programmes, including Quante storie broadcast on Raitre, certainly one of the most interesting and long-lived cultural productions on national programming, Palumbo also hosts the online literary column “Libri d’Oggi” in tandem with Paolo Di Paolo.
