Intorno al viaggio musicale di Andrea Zanzotto

Starting from Viaggio musicale, a small book curated by Paolo Cattelan in dialogue with Andrea Zanzotto on the theme of music and poetry, the article follows the path of formation of the poet to music: the nursery rhymes of childhood, Toti Dal Monte and the Opera arias sung by the villagers, the theatre of puppets and music by Margot Galante Garrone, Federico Fellini and Nino Rota, the musicians who met his poetry and set it to music

Comparing Notes: Recording and Criticism

This chapter charts the ways in which recording has changed the nature of music criticism. It both provides an overview of the history of recording and music criticism, from the advent of Edison’s Phonograph to the present day, and examines the issues arising from this new technology and the consequent transformation of critical thought and practice

Wider Still and Wider: British Music Criticism since the Second World War

This chapter provides the first historical examination of music criticism in Britain since the Second World War. In the process, it also challenges the simplistic prevailing view of this being a period of decline from a golden age in music criticism

La voce dell'opinione liberal democratica ligure alla vigilia del 1859. Il San Giorgio

ITALIANO: L’intervento illustra la brevissima esperienza d’impegno ‘politico’ di Vittorio Poggi in seno alla redazione del quotidiano liberal-democratico « Il San Giorgio » (Genova, 1858- 1859), di cui fu il primo direttore. / ENGLISH: The paper aims to introduce Vittorio Poggi as first director of « Il San Giorgio », a ‘liberal-oriented’ newspaper published in Genoa in 1858-1859

Sulla plaquette montaliana "La casa dei doganieri e altri versi" (1932)

The contribution focuses on a small collection of poems published by Montale on 1932. In this booklet poems are alternated with drawings made by some of the artists of the Antico Fattore restaurant in Florence, where they met and found a prize of the same name, which was awarded to Montale on 1931. The contribution examines material characteristics of this plaquette, the connection between poems and drawings, the literary importance of these five Montale’s poems, which are placed between the second edition of "Ossi di seppia" (1928) and the print of "Le occasioni" (1939)