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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Merlin
Perhaps it is a sign of fate that I saw the latest episode of the Merlin television series the day after the release of my Axis Mundi. Of course, when I started following the first season of this long outdated production — broadcast on BBC One from 2008 to 2012 — I never thought I’d spend a few words on it. Instead, perhaps because of the affection for the characters, or because of the change and evolution from season to season, now I leave Arthur and Merlin with regret and with a lump in my throat.
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in Geeks
J. C. Casalini ".Otto."
The theme of the double in fiction has illustrious precedents, starting with the portrait aging in place of the corrupt Dorian Gray all the way to Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde. In the novel “.OTTO.”, By J.C. Casalini, the double is expressed in the classic Good / Evil dichotomy, where evil is Lucifer, the bearer of light, while it is darkness that is redeeming.
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in Fiction
A magic night
I am thinking about what Christmas was like in the sixties. Not everyone’s, mine. I lived in a nuclear family: father, mother, me. My brother hadn’t been planned yet. A provincial town in Tuscany, an apartment in a popular neighborhood, furnished in a functional and modern way, because we were a family in step with the times. My mother worked, drove the Bianchina and did the shopping at Smec, the first supermarket to set foot in the center. We lived the economic boom with hope, proud of the progress that would only bring civilization, proud of the refrigerator, the toaster, the blender, the carbonated water with the the Idrolitina, the bottled wine on the table.
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in Confessions
The last Christmas
A small excerpt from my novel “Una casa di vento”. The table has been extended and covered with a red tablecloth, bought in a Chinese store, which does not need to be ironed and is washed with a sponge. The dishes, on the other hand, are the good ones. Michela even tried to make a centerpiece out of discount candles and cones sprinkled with silver spray. Keeping your hands and head busy is an effort that consumes a lot of energy, exhausts and leaves room for little else, but it is essential, it is part of the daily process of repression, which has been going on for a long time now. At this very moment she forces herself to keep her eyes fixed on the plate she is holding, to breathe in order to clear her head and find a way to get to the end of the evening. From the kitchen comes a sickening smell of scorched croutons and sizzled roast. It is as if there were luminous writings in the air, festoons announcing the advent of horror, not of Jesus.
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in Fiction
The seed of crying
“Livorno, when she passed by, she smelled of air and boats “ Giorgio Caproni (1912–1990) was born in Livorno and there he set his most beautiful poems, those dedicated to his mother, Anna Picchi, Annina, called “Versi Livornesi”, in the collection “The seed of crying” of 1959.
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in Poets
Lucifer
What better modern incarnation of the nineteenth-century Byronic and Satanic hero than the devil himself? There are products — television, literary, cinematographic — that stand out not for the plot or originality of the idea and setting, but for a single perfect character. This is the case of the urban fantasy and police procedural series Lucifer, developed by Tom Kapinos, produced by anything but rookie Jerry Bruckheimer, based on a comic, aired from 2016 to 2021, and now distributed by Netflix, which impresses in the collective (and erotic) imagination with its protagonist: Lucifer Morningstar, the rejected son of God, the fallen angel Samael who later became Lucifer, that is “bearer of Light”, or of clarity, of knowledge, of truth.
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in Geeks
An old English Cemetery
With the Livornine laws, promulgated by Grand Duke Ferdinand I, starting from 1590, to promote the economy and the repopulation of an unhealthy and malarial area, first the Jewish communities , and then all the others, were allowed to settle in Livorno. The main purpose was to attract wealthy Sephardi communities.
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in The Swamp
The Cemetery
Wondering if “in the shade of the cypresses and inside the comforted by crying urns” the sleep of death is perhaps less hard or not, I enter the Cemetery of the Lupi, or La Cigna Municipal Cemetery, today on 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 gronda of the Lupi , 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, of 1804, to which Foscolo refers in the Carme “I Sepolcri”, together with a concomitant epidemic of yellow fever, to decree the birth of the new cemetery.
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in FYI
Lilith
I have already talked about “At the Back of the North Wind”, by the Scotsman George MacDonald, written in 1871, which has Death as its protagonist. The Lilith saga, composed around 1895 and declined in the three novels “Beyond the Looking Glass”, “Lilith” and “The House of Regret”, takes up the figure of the female demon associated with the wind. The protagonist of the trilogy is Lilith, from Akkadian Lil-itu, lady of the air, a creature connected to the storm and the cat. In Mesopotamian culture, Lilith was a demon, whom the Jews borrowed during the Babylonian captivity and transformed into Adam’s first wife, disowned for refusing to obey her husband. She has always had negative characteristics, of a nocturnal, witchy, adulterous and lustful feminine. In the nineteenth century, however, with the emancipation of women, she came to represent the strong woman who no longer submits to men, she is re-evaluated by modern neo-pagan cults and assimilated to the Great Mother.
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in Fiction
Conspiracy
This essay has no title, it is recognized through an isbn code. It is the final part of a trilogy, which also includes “My Continuous Becoming” and “The Omniverse”, which the author himself defines as “a trilogy of thoughts, considerations, opinions, comparisons, hopes, opportunities”.
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in Futurism
