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Menotti Lerro | |
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Menotti Lerro at the Literary Caffè Giubbe Rosse in Florence | |
Born | Omignano, Italy | 22 February 1980
Occupation(s) | Teacher, writer, poet, playwright |
Menotti Augusto Serse Lerro (22 February 1980) is an Italian poet, writer, playwright, librettist and academic. His work explores matters of social alienation and existentialism, the physicality and vulnerability of the body, the interpretation of memories, the meaning of objects and the philosophical importance of human identity. In 2015 he published Donna Giovanna, l'ingannatrice di Salerno, a feminized bisexual version of the mythical figure of Don Juan, El Burlador de Sevilla. In 2018 he wrote Il Dottor Faust , an original version of the character of Faust. In addition he is the author of a New Manifesto of Arts and the founder of the Empathic movement (Empathism) that arose in the South of Italy at the beginning of 2020.
Lerro studied English and Spanish languages and literatures at University of Salerno, starting in 2000, and received his degree in 2004. [1] [2] During this time he spent seven months in Oxford as an exchange student. [3] [4] In 2006, after working one year in Milan for Mondadori publishing house, he received a scholarship from the University of Salerno to study abroad and began his masters' degree in "The Body and Representation" at the University of Reading [5] under the supervision of Carolyn Williams Lyle. [6] He later received the expert status of “Cultore della Materia” at the University of Salerno [7] [8] and in 2010 became visiting scholar at the University of Reading, where he undertook postgraduate teaching. [9] Later, after completing his PhD in English and Spanish literature at the University of Salerno, he became a visiting scholar at the University of Warwick (2014) [10] and at the University of Edinburgh (2020). [11] He taught English Culture and Civilization and English Literature at Ciels University of Milan for four years (2014–2018) [12] before moving to Padua to teach the same subjects. He collaborated and taught lessons at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Accademia Albertina and IULM University. [13] [14] In 2022 he received a degree in Italian Studies (Lettere, Sapere Umanistico e Formazione). [15]
Enrolled in the register of journalists since 2005, in 2022 he started writing opinion pieces for the Italian newspaper Affari Italiani. [16] [17]
According to Andrew Mangham: "Menotti Lerro is one of the most interesting poets in modern-day Europe". [18] Lerro has also been praised by the Italian influential critic Giorgio Barberi Squarotti, who defined him as "brillant". [19] In addition, the same Squarotti, wrote a preface at Lerro's collection of poetry titled Gli occhi sul Tempo, Manni editore, 2009. [20] In 2012, Roberto Carifi referred to Lerro as "one of the most interesting poets of the current Italian panorama" in the magazine "Poesia" (Crocetti editore). [21] Moreover, Alessandro Serpieri, known for his work about William Shakespeare and Emeritus Professor at the University of Florence in the end of his preface at Poesie scelte of Lerro (Zona: 2010) stated that "Between despair and dreaming, the poetic voice of Lerro shows a peculiar, expressive power modulated with images (that are often surprising) and a techniques in rhyme and metre that is often masterful". [22]
One of his 2015 dramas, Donna Giovanna, l'ingannatrice di Salerno , was the subject of a Master's degree from a student of the University of Palermo. The same dissertation became the basis for a critical volume about the figure [23] [24] [25] of a female [26] [27] and bisexual Don Giovanni, [28] first performed at the Biblioteca Marucelliana. [29] [30] [31] Maria Teresa Chialant, Professor of English Literature at the Università degli Studi di Salerno stressed the "deep complexity" of Lerro's writing in the review of his dystopian novel 2084: Il potere dell'immortalità nelle città del dolore . [32] In 2008 Mondadori’s literary magazine Nuovi Argomenti selected Lerro as one of the poets to represent the new generation of poets born in the 1980s. [33] [34]
Lerro has written several books of poetry and prose. Several of his works have been translated into other languages such as Poeme Alese. [35] [36] [37] ISBN 978-8874143764 He also has visual poetry including Ritagli, consisting of 30 canvases, shown in Berlin, Milan, Florence, [38] Omignano, Vallo della Lucania and Salerno (Pinacoteca di Salerno, Santa Maria de Lama's church and ipogeo del Complesso Monumentale di San Pietro a Corte) [39] [40] [41]
He produced the music CD I Battiti della Notte (Lerro-Krezymon) and in 2015 three concerts have been performed in Poland: Kraków, [42] [43] Warsaw [44] [45] and Gdańsk, [46] [47] organized by Italian Institute of Culture. [48] [49] [50] In 2017, he performed two concerts in Italy: Ascea and Salento. [51] [52] In 2019 the concert was given in Vallo della Lucania. [53]
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The Empathic Movement, or Empathism (Italian: La Scuola Empatica / Empatismo) [54] is a literary, artistic, philosophical and cultural movement born in Italy in 2020 [55] [56] within the ‘New Cultural Triangle of Ancient Cilento’: (Omignano – "The Aphorisms Village", [57] [58] Salento – "The Poetry Village", [59] Vallo della Lucania – "Seat of Contemporary Arts Centre"). [60] [61] [62] Starting with the values and ideas expressed in the New Manifesto of Arts [63] [64] [65] written by Menotti Lerro and Antonello Pelliccia in 2018. [56] [66] The manifesto places empathy and the need to feel close, at the centre of the self, in contrast to previous views as isolated artists. It proposes that any creative or didactic experimentation cannot be separated from a process of identification with other's life stories. The manifesto further implies a civil promotion of the artistic society from individual and community growth, according to ethical purposes mediated by art. [67] [68] [69]
Lerro developed the Cilento Poetry Prize (Italian: Premio Cilento Poesia), an Italian literary prize founded in 2017 [70] [71] and awarded annually in Salento Cilento – "The Poetry Village". [72] [73] [74] Some of the prize awardees include: 2017 – Davide Rondoni; [75] 2018 – Milo de Angelis; [76] [77] 2019 – Giampiero Neri and Vivian Lamarque; [78] 2020 – Elio Pecora; [79] 2021 – Dacia Maraini; [80] - Valerio Magrelli [81] and Tiziano Rossi. [82] [83] 2023 - Maurizio Cucchi and Najwan Darwish. [84] Prizes for criticism have been awarded to: 2018 – Francesco D'Episcopo; [85] 2019 – Umberto Curi; [78] 2020 – Remo Bodei [86]
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Remo Bodei was an Italian philosopher. He was a professor of the history of philosophy at the UCLA University, Los Angeles California, and also taught at the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.
Caffè Giubbe Rosse is a historical literary café in Piazza della Repubblica, Florence. When opened in 1896, the cafè was actually called "Fratelli Reininghaus". It was named "Giubbe Rosse" in 1910, after the red jackets which waiters used to wear every day.
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Donna Giovanna, the Trickster of Salerno is a play written by the Italian poet, writer, dramatist, librettist and academic Menotti Lerro. The original title was just Donna Giovanna first published on 2015, performed on 25 November 2017 at the Biblioteca Marucelliana of Florence. The play is considered an innovative feminine and bisexual version of the mythical figure of Don Juan, El Burlador de Sevilla.
The Empathic Movement is a literary, artistic, philosophical and cultural movement founded in the South of Italy in 2020 within the 'New Cultural Triangle of Ancient Cilento': Omignano - "The Aphorisms Village", Salento - "The Poetry Village", Vallo della Lucania - "Seat of Contemporary Arts Centre". From this first Triangle the Cultural Pyramid of Cilento was born to represent the enlarged epicenter of the Movement with 25 villages involved which joined with a new cultural identity and signing a protocol agreement.
The Cultural Pyramid of Cilento is a geometric drawing created in 2020 by the poet Menotti Lerro representing the epicenter of the Empathism. The Pyramid shape came out adding the "Cultural Triangle" founded by Lerro at the historical summits of high cultural tradition of the Cilento area.
2084: Il potere dell'immortalità nelle città del dolore is an Italian-language dystopian science fiction novel written by the Italian writer Menotti Lerro. It was published in November 2013 by Zona Publishing.
Augusto Orrel: memorie d'orrore e poesia is a semi-autobiographical novel written in Italian language by Menotti Lerro and printed on 2007 by Joker Publishing.
Il Dottor Faust is a tragedy written in 2018 by the Italian poet Menotti Lerro. It is based on the mythical, German figure of Faust.
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