The letterature festival internazionale di roma has been happening for about a month, but we just found about it last week. The topic for this year's festival is "la vita dolce," and for each night of the month-long event, well known authors and musicians respond to a topic like " affetti," "denaro," piachere," destino" and "ossessione." The event is free, and but it takes place in the Roman Forum, so people queue up at 7pm for first-come-first-serve tickets for the 9pm show. Juliette and I went twice last week, first to "destino," where we heard Massimo Cacciari (Italian), Jamacia Kincaid, and Sapphire (the author of "Precious") read their works, accompanied by a pianist named Alessandra Celletti. Both Cacciari and Sapphire read in Italian, and Jamacia read in English with Italian "subtitles" projected onto the screen behind her. The last night we saw "sfide," with Giacomo Marramao, Herta Muller and Maurizio Maggiani, accompanied by 3 Untitled DJ's. Although I couldn't understand much of the readings, Italian is beautiful to listen to and the music was stunning. And of course it's always nice to be in the Roman Forum with the Romans.
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