Patrizia Poli
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Patrizia Poli was born in Livorno in 1961. Writer of fiction and blogger, she published seven novels.
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Paolo Mantioni, "Le età della vita"
“It seems to me that you don’t truly believe in anything you do, you don’t wear yourself out completely, you continue to maintain a control that you need to stay out. But in this way you risk staying out of literature, work and even life.”
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
The Ancient English Cemetery
With the Livornine laws, promulgated by Grand Duke Ferdinando I, starting from 1590, to favor the economy and the repopulation of an unhealthy and malarial zone, the Jewish communities were allowed first, and then all the others, to settle in Livorno. The main purpose was to attract the rich Sephardic communities.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
An excerpt from "The Flight of the Serpent Dragon"
An excerpt from “Flight of the Serpent Dragon” by Patrizia Poli A wound in the red rock. An ocher mouth open in the blue of a sky that knows no clouds: the Ohnigah Mountain chain that splits in two before descending to the stony ground, the mountains dug by the dry Egelloch river bed. On both sides of the dry river bed, the palm grove, an emerald ribbon in a universe of red earth.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Fiction
The Lupi Cemetery
Wondering if “in the shadow of the cypresses and inside the urns comforted by crying the sleep of death is perhaps less hard or not”, I enter the Cimitero dei Lupi, or La Cigna Municipal Cemetery, today at the edge of the port and industrial area of the city of Livorno, near the Cigna stream, in the locality of Santo Stefano dei Lupi. The area takes its name from the Lupi’s Gronda, a vast area that in medieval times extended from Pisa to the village of Labron, so-called by the landowning family. It was precisely the edict of San Cloud, in 1804, to which Foscolo refers in the poem “I Sepolcri”, together with a concomitant yellow fever epidemic, to decree the birth of the new cemetery.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Geeks
Carlo Valentini, "Elvira la modella di Modigliani"
“Death overtook him when he came to glory” Being portrayed by Modì, it was used to say in the milieu, was like “having your soul undressed”. The setting is that of Montmatre and Montparnasse, the portrait in particular stands out on the cover of Carlo Valentini’s book: “Elvira the model of Modigliani.”
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Carlo Valentini, "Elvira la modella di Modigliani"
“Death overtook him when he came to glory” Being portrayed by Modì, it was used to say in the milieu, was like “having your soul undressed”. The setting is that of Montmatre and Montparnasse, the portrait in particular stands out on the cover of Carlo Valentini’s book: “Elvira the model of Modigliani.”
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Roberto Marchesini, "Il cane secondo me"
“I would like to talk about the trust of dogs, about the thousands of inspirations they arouse with their apparent mute presence. Dogs are always there! What a strange thing to know that there is someone who does not reserve, that you do not have to convince, that he will not want to be reciprocated, that does not consider it an obligation or kindness to accept your invitation! " (page 24)
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Petlife
Maria Vittoria Masserotti, "Racconti per una canzone"
Once upon a time there were short stories published in the most famous magazines, even writers of a certain depth, such as Scerbanenco, signed them. The stories of Maria Vittoria Masserotti remind me of those. Short stories that are read one at a time for the blessed, sacrosanct, pure and simple desire to read, for the now unobtainable and outdated joy of discovering an atmosphere and a plot.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Fiction
