At the Baths of Caracalla Calvino and the portraits of Tullio Pericoli

The Baths of Caracalla are hosting, from November 25, 2023 to April 14, 2024, as part of the official program of the celebrations of the centenary of Italo Calvino’s birth, the exhibition Challenge to the Labyrinth. Calvino, Cities, and Portraits by Tullio Pericoli. Curated by Nunzio Giustozzi and Giulio Carlo Pantalei, promoted by the Special Superintendence of Rome, directed by Daniela Porro, and organized by Electa in collaboration with the Tullio Pericoli Archive, the exhibition, a literary and visual project, takes its cue from the title of one of Italo Calvino’s most famous essays, which appeared in 1962 in Menabò, a magazine he edited with Vittorin

The exhibition develops along three sections in dialogue with each other. The first path consists of dozens of photographic documents and author’s shots. The second brings together for the first time, in faithful reproductions, all the drawings and paintings that Tullio Pericoli dedicated to the visionary writer. Opposite the new room with a tank opened this year, the third and final section, with a series of totems, focuses on the lesser-known relationship between Calvin, classical literature and Roman antiquity.

Coordinated image exhibition Igor Bevilacqua. Photo: Calvino during his stay in New York, autumn-winter 1959-1960. Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Calvino Fund. Drawing: Tullio Pericoli, Italo Calvino, 2012. Watercolor on paper.

At the Baths of Caracalla Calvino and the portraits of Tullio Pericoli

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