The right inclination. Poems and collages. Presentation of the book by Paola Setaro
La giusta inclinazione (La Gru edition, 2022) is the voice of a woman who retraces the stages of her transformation, from inadequacy to deep self-knowledge. The collages mark the invisible rhythm of a narrative where memory is a room that is always inhabited, in which, if a wall gives way, there is also a point, purer and brighter, that persists in remaining.
Paola Setaro graduated in Modern Literature and Art History from the University of Naples Federico II and obtained her research doctorate in Estudios Artísticos, Literarios y de la Cultura from the Autonomous University of Madrid, in co-supervision with the University of Naples Federico II.
She is the author of essays focusing on the artistic and cultural relations between Naples and Spain in the modern age and on the themes of collecting and celebration. She is currently a scholarship holder for the Alti Studi sull’Età e la Cultura del Barocco of the Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura of the Compagnia di San Paolo in Turin.
Alongside her research activities, she devotes herself to poetry and photography. She has published the book of poems and photos Non potevo metterci anche l’orizzonte (Edizioni La Gru, 2019), while the short story Il mare è di stoffa was included in the second volume of Racconti Campani (Historica Edizioni, 2020). The photographic book Atlantique. Frammenti di un sentimento oceanico (with Marco Rinaldi, Eretica edizioni, 2021). A finalist in the 2021 “Roma Fotografia” Special Prize for Women’s Photography, she exhibited at the Bresciani Visual Art gallery in Rome in the same year.
Francesca Romana de Paolis graduated in Modern Philology from La Sapienza University in Rome.
She completed her studies with an Advanced Training Course on Museum Curation and Event Organisation at the European Institute of Design in Rome.
An independent curator and ghostwriter, she collaborates with “Artribune”, “Artslife”, “Exibart” and the quarterly magazine “Myrrha. Il dono del Sud”.
Interested in the relationship between literature and art, a lover of writing and a profound connoisseur of the Neo-avant-garde and in particular of Gruppo 63, specialised in Literary Criticism and Theory, she has been conducting research on the Provençal troubadours for some years.
Giampiero Moretti is Full Professor of Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”.
A scholar of German Romanticism, he has written several volumes on the relationship between philosophy and literature, the latest of which is Estetica e comparatistica (Morcelliana, 2021). He has edited Italian translations of Hölderlin, Schiller, Novalis, Schelling, Fechner, Klages, Heidegger and Bachofen.
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Coordination: Prof. Guglielmo Gigliotti g.gigliotti@abaroma.it
Collaboration: Chiara Picco, Martina Macchia, Marianna Pontillo comunicazione@abaroma.it