The Busseto Library of the Cariparma Foundation offers its users and citizens a new series of conferences of “The Fridays of the Library” which will be held between October and December 2024. With this initiative the intention is to enhance not only the historical and artistic heritage of the centuries-old Busseto institution, but above all the skills of numerous teachers and researchers, historians, art historians and professionals of the territory who have had and continue to have in the Busseto library a fundamental point of cultural, training and research reference, but also emotional.
The meetings will all be hosted at the Busseto Library, in via Roma 38, at 9pm.
Free entry while places last.
info: biblioteca.busseto@fondazionecrp.it
Busseto Library – 4 October 2024, 9pm – curated by Corrado Mingardi
Among the collections of the Cariparma Foundation Library in Busseto there are around a hundred letters from Giuseppe Verdi’s wife to Don Giovanni Avanzi, parish priest of Vidalenzo and canon of the Collegiate Church of Busseto. Some were written during the Verdi couple’s stay in Russia on the occasion of the first performance of La Forza del Destino.
Busseto Library – 11 October 2024, 9pm – curated by Giuseppe Martini
Giuseppe Verdi was transformed from his lifetime into a familiar figure, into a part of our identity, into a sort of saint of which we possess a shred, with the result that things are attributed to him that he never did or said. Some funny anecdotes, a look at how he reacted (and how he would react today) and why all this explains his music better than any technical analysis.
Busseto Library – 18 October 2024, 9pm – curated by Alessandra Mordacci
The fortresses of Torchiara and Rezinoldo, built in the mid-century. XV by Pier Maria Rossi of San Secondo, hosted one of the most intense love stories of the Po Valley Renaissance and the resulting paintings are a mirror of the mentality of a noble court of those times. The identification of the theme of the frescoes is due to Father Ireneo Affò (Busseto, 1741-1797), a man of letters and art historian belonging to the Order of Observant Friars Minor and since 1785 librarian of the Palatine Library of Parma.
Busseto Library – 8 November 2024, 9pm – curated by Stefano Roffi
There are men who, when they move away from the earth, bring with them a world, a civilization. One of these was Luigi Magnani, who is suited to the nickname of lord, in the sense in which the great patrons of the Renaissance were lords, who used power and wealth without serving them, as means of preserving and increasing the beauty of the world – art, music, literature, landscape – indispensable goods of the spirit.
Busseto Library – 15 November 2024, 9pm – curated by Merika Rossetti
A journey through the enchanted and committed words, the odes and poems, the songs, the loves and the diplomacy of an immense Chilean poet. In “I refuse to chew on theories” he writes: “I don’t know if men should be divided into natural and artificial, into realists and illusionists: I believe that it is sufficient to put on one side those who are men and on the other those who are not. The latter have nothing to do with my poetry, or at least, with my songs.”
Busseto Library – 22 November 2024, 9pm – curated by Marcello Cavalli
The 360-degree creative process, a journey to discover the processes that allow an author to construct new and imaginative situations, starting from personal experience, observation and documentation, also in light of the advent of new technologies and artificial intelligence.
Busseto Library – 6 December 2024, 9pm – curated by Anna Mavilla
The almost twenty-year correspondence between Renato Brozzi (Traversetolo, 1885-1963) and Gabriele D’Annunzio highlights the truly exclusive experience lived by the artist in his relationship with the authoritative client, not only in relation to the numerous artistic commissions for the Vittoriale, but also in relation to the human relationship that was established, with moments of very close understanding, between the Pope of Italy and his favorite animal breeder.
Busseto Library – 13 December 2024, 9pm – curated by Cristina Vernizzi
In collaboration with A.M.I Section of Turin and Piedmont, ANPI Busseto
The Roman Republic marked the highest moment of our Risorgimento: under the impulse and ideal tension of Giuseppe Mazzini, the best youth of the time flocked there, and supported by people who were its protagonists: from Cristina di Belgioso to Goffredo Mameli, from Giuseppe Garibaldi to Giuseppe Verdi. It was a fierce and heroic struggle for a Republic that was the most advanced experiment in “pure” democracy, a model for all of Europe at the time and a model for our Constitution of 1948.
Busseto Library
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