The Italian Cultural Institute and the Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics of Concordia University are pleased to present the conference “Towards a genesis of the new edition of Gadda’s writings published by Adelphi” by Paola Italia. Dario Brancato, professor Concordia University, and Francesco D’Arelli, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute, present the speaker and the themes of the conference.
Thursday May 2 2019, 6pm
Italian Cultural Institute
1200, Av. du Dr. Penfield
Montréal (QC), QC H3A 1A9
Conference in Italian
With the recent discovery of hitherto unstudied personal archive of Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973), one of the most important and famous writer of 20th-century Italy, Paola Italia, together with Giorgio Pinotti and Claudio Vela, undertook the task of studying this new material and re-publishing the complete works of Gadda with prestigious Italian publisher Adelphi. In this paper, Paola Italia, expert in Gadda (Come lavorava Gadda, Roma, Carocci, 2017, Atelier Gadda, Paris, CNRS, 2019) tells us how to approach and study the work of one of the greatest writers of 20th-century Italy and reveals us the secrets of his writing workshop in a fascinating journey through his personal papers, library and numerous re-writings of Gadda’s masterpieces.
Paola Italia has studied in Pavia, Ginevra, Pisa and since 2005 she has been Associate Professor of Italian Literature. She has been teaching at the University of Siena, Roma “La Sapienza”, Bologna. She has studied Modern Literature, from ‘700 to ‘900, with a specific interest in ecdotic problems and Authorial Philology (www.filologiadautore.it). She took part in two philological teams devoted to the critical edition of Promessi Sposi’s first draft (Fermo e Lucia, edited by Dante Isella, published in 2006), and Canti’critical edition, directed by Franco Gavazzeni, published in 2006 and 2009 by Accademia della Crusca). She carried out a research on 20th century Italian Literature language and philology, focused on different authors such as Gadda (Glossario di Carlo Emilio Gadda ‘milanese’, Edizioni dell’Orso, 1998 [Premio “Marino Moretti” per la Critica e la Filologia nel 1999]), Manganelli, Savinio (Il pellegrino appassionato, Sellerio 2004; Premio “Domenico Rea” 2005), Bassani, Tobino. With Giorgio Pinotti and Claudio Vela she is now the editor of Carlo Emilio Gadda’s work in Adelphi, and with Giorgio Pinotti has edited Eros e Priapo’s new critical edition based on the first draft (Milano, 2016).
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