Today is Italo Calvino's centenary. All the exhibitions in Italy celebrating him

On October 15, 1923, Italo Calvino, one of the greatest Italian writers of the second half of the twentieth century and an intellectual of political, civil and cultural commitment, was born in Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba. Among his most celebrated literary masterpieces are The Path of the Spider’s Nests, If One Winter’s Night a Traveler, the trilogy of Our Ancestors, which includes The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees and The Inexistent Knight, Marcovaldo, The Invisible Cities, The Castle of Crossed Destinies, and The Cosmicomics, but he wrote many other works, including fairy tales, short stories, essays, and songs.

To celebrate the centenary of his birth, several exhibitions have been opened in Italy. Here are which ones.

The Scuderie del Quirinale is hosting from October 13, 2023 to February 4, 2024 the major exhibition Fabulous Calvin. The World as a Work of Art. Carpaccio, de Chirico, Gnoli, Melotti and others, curated by Mario Barenghi and organized by Scuderie del Quirinale with Electa publishing house. Special attention will be devoted to Calvino’s relationship with the arts; the intent is above all to provide a panoramic representation of Calvino’s visual imagination, relating real environments and possible worlds, adventures of the gaze, visions, and theories. The common thread will be precisely the visual dimension, through more than four hundred loans. For info: www.scuderiequirinale.it

The Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, in the spaces of the Loggia degli Abati, celebrates Italo Calvino and his relationship with the poetic unverse of the fairy tale with the exhibition Calvino cantafavole, curated by Eloisa Morra and Luca Scarlini, supported by the Region of Liguria, the Municipality of Genoa with Fondazione Palazzo Ducale, and organized by the publishing house Electa in collaboration with the Scuderie del Quirinale, Teatro della Tosse and Lele Luzzati Foundation. On view from Oct. 15, 2023 to April 7, 2024, the exhibition is divided into six sections: to the many artists Calvino wrote about, all linked to the fantastic-from Enrico Baj to Bona de Pisis, from Domenico Gnoli to Luigi Serafini-the exhibition flanks a pathway on the fairy tale as declined in its relations with music, television and theater. Parallel to the exhibition in the Loggia degli Abati, Casa Luzzati offers an in-depth look at the master’s work for Calvino with more than 100 original works. Divided into two sections, the public will be able to admire the entire collection of materials from the Cetra Quartet, record covers of Calvino’s fairy tales, original illustrations, interviews, set designs for theater, and the nursery rhyme work for Rai 1’s Baron rampant in Turin. For info: www.palazzoducale.genova.it

Finally, the Labyrinth of the Masone in Fontanellato pays homage to the great writer with an exhibition recounting his relationship with the great publisher Franco Maria Ricci: Crossed Fates. Italo Calvino and Franco Maria Ricci, curated by Pietro Mercogliano and Cesare Dal Pane and set up by Maddalena Casalis. On view from October 15, 2023 to January 7, 2024, the exhibition aims to trace and investigate the working and personal relationship between Ricci and Calvino. It was 1969 when Franco Maria Ricci first published Italo Calvino’s Il castello dei destini incrociati (The Castle of Crossed Fates) they then continued to collaborate under the banner of the encounter between the word and the figurative. Their relationship was not only working, but also personal, of great mutual esteem and affection: the more than twenty years of their friendship are narrated in the exhibition by letters, handwritten or typewritten, all signed and exhibited in original. For info: https://www.labirintodifrancomariaricci.it/

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Today is Italo Calvino's centenary. All the exhibitions in Italy celebrating him

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