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RECCOMENDED READING: "Spiriti",
a book by Francesca D'Aloja
The MAG - 04.23
By Cristina Morozzi
Francesca D’Aloja was born and lives in Rome. A writer, actress and director, she has worked with Vittorio Gassman, Carlo Verdone, Ferzan Ozpetek, Ettore Scola and Marco Risi, among others. She made her debut in fiction in 2007 with the novel Il sogno cattivo (The Bad Dream). On November 3, at the Spazio Marras space at Via Cola di Rienzo in Milan, she presented her latest book Spiriti (Spirits), published by La Nave di Teseo (Milan, 2022).
Spiriti talks about the lives of others, and in the presentation Francesca specified that she talked about people who tried to make sense of their existence and who revealed a stubborn desire to exist. She confessed that she was drawn to their drive, and that flame that turns life into adventure, fueled by passion. Among the lives she narrates are those of Nicola Tesla, the inventor of electricity; Chet Baker who played the trumpet in front of his house; sculptor Rembrandt Bugatti; writer Robert Louis Stevenson; French writer Roman Gray; film director Otto Preminger; English poet Richard Yates; German film director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, best known for directing Nosferatu, which won three Oscars; sculptor Camille Claudel; brothers Jules and Edmond Goncourt, founders of Académie Goncourt; and Lou Salomé, who all her life focused on the study of the human psyche, which Sigmund Freud, whom she studied under, called her his “ray of sunshine”.
It is a captivating book and is easy to read because it consists of documented biographies that can be read one at a time in different sittings.
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