Attilio Bertolucci and his poetry

 

 

PORTRAITS OF ETTORE VIOLA

Rome, november 24, 2021

 

 

On November 18, 1911, the great poet Attilio Bertolucci, father of directors Bernardo and Giuseppe, was born.

We remember him with a portrait of Ettore Viola (published on the cover of TuttoLibri de La Stampa) and one of the most beautiful poems by Attilio Bertolucci, “Vento”

 

Come un lupo è il vento
che cala dai monti al piano
corica nei campi il grano
ovunque passa è sgomento.

Fischia nei mattini chiari
illuminando case e orizzonti
sconvolge l’acqua nelle fonti
caccia gli uomini ai ripari.
Poi, stanco s’addormenta e uno stupore
prende le cose, come dopo l’amore.

 

 

Enrico Berlinguer: the centenary of his birth

Enrico Berlinguer, secretary of the PCI from 1972 to 1984 would have turned one hundred today (he was born in Sassari on 25 May 1922). Ettore Viola remembers him with two portraits for the Manifesto and for the Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno.

Darwin Day

The 213rd birthday party of the father of the theory of evolution

Published today unpublished by Pier Paolo Posolini

On the occasion of the centenary of Pier Paolo Pasolini, the illustration by Ettore Viola