event
Tuesday 21 May 2024 5.30 PM

conferencePrimo TesoroThe Premio Strega books 1947-2021

Carlo Scarpa hall
free admission subject to availability
event in Italian

A vocabulary of the Italian literary language of the 20th and contemporary eras.

Published in 2007 on electronic support, the Primo Tesoro can now be consulted online and collects the texts of 115 winning books and finalists of the Premio Strega between 1947 and 2021, making an important intangible heritage universally accessible, opening up to future and dynamic expansion.

institutional greetings
Irene de Vico Fallani Head of MAXXI Orientations and Development
Giovanni Solimine Fondazione Maria e Goffredo Bellonci President
Natale Antonio Rossi FUIS – Federazione Unitaria Italiana Scrittori President
Paolo D’Achille Accademia della Crusca President

introduction
Silvana Ferreri University of Tuscia

speaker
Stefano Bartezzaghi IULM University

round table
Giuseppe Antonelli University of Pavia
Valeria Della Valle Sapienza University of Rome
Chiara Fenoglio University of Turin
Emanuele Trevi writer and essayist
Sandro Veronesi writer and screenwriter

coordination
Matteo Motolese Sapienza University of Rome

conclusions
Giorgio Enrico Mariani and Fabio Sposini curators of the project

The conference is realised with the contribution of the Lazio Region, Regional Directorate for Culture, Youth and Family Policies, Equal Opportunities, Civil Service-Communication Area and Promotion of Cultural Services, Regional Law no. 24/2019, Plan 2023.


individual seats reserved for myMAXXI card holders by writing to mymaxxi@fondazionemaxxi.it, by the day before the event