{"id":53888,"date":"2016-03-14T12:22:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T11:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2016\/03\/lisbona-bassani-a-cento-anni-dalla-2\/"},"modified":"2016-03-14T12:22:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T11:22:40","slug":"lisbona-bassani-a-cento-anni-dalla-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2016\/03\/lisbona-bassani-a-cento-anni-dalla-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisbon &#8211; Bassani, the Italian Institute of Culture commemorates him on the 100th anniversary of his birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giorgio Bassani was born one hundred years ago, on the 4<sup>th<\/sup> of March of 1916. To celebrate this anniversary, the Italian Institute of Culture (IIC) in Lisbon will hold an event at 7:15 p.m. on March 15<sup>th<\/sup> to commemorate the Emilian-born writer with an event which will be attended by his daughter Paola Bassani, the president of the Giorgio Bassani Foundation. The IIC presentation note reads: \u201cThe event includes the screening of several videos tracing a significant and unforgettable profile of Bassani as man and writer, especially Silvana Palumbieri\u2019s documentary \u2018Il giardino perduto di Giorgio Bassani\u2019 (\u2018Giorgio Bassani\u2019s Lost Garden\u2019). Bassani was born in Bologna in a Jewish middle-class family but spent his childhood and youth in Ferrara, which was later to become the throbbing heart of his poetic world. He moved to Rome in 1943 and it was not until 1945 that he gave continuity to his literary activity, working both as writer and journalist. After the publication of a first collection of poems and of a single book, \u201cCinque storie ferraresi\u201d in 1956, Bassani achieved stardom with \u201cThe Garden of the Finzi Continis\u201d (1962), which inspired the film by the same name by director Vittorio De Sica in 1970, and which won the 1972 Oscar for the best foreign language film. His later works were all developed around the great geographical and sentimental setting of Ferrara: \u201cBehind the Door\u201d (1964); \u201cL\u2019Airone\u201d (1968); \u00a0\u201cL\u2019odore del fieno\u201d (1973), which were united in a single volume entitled \u00a0\u201cIl romanzo di Ferrara\u201d and published together with the short novel \u201cThe Gold Rimmed Glasses\u201d (1958), which was made into a film by Giuliano Montaldo in 1987. Bassani died in Rome on the 13<sup>th<\/sup> of April 2000 after a long illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giorgio Bassani was born one hundred years ago, on the 4th of March of 1916. To celebrate this anniversary, the Italian Institute of Culture (IIC) in Lisbon will hold an event at 7:15 p.m. on March 15th to commemorate the Emilian-born writer with an event which will be attended by his daughter Paola Bassani, the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32,9],"class_list":["post-53888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-diplomazia-culturale","tag-europa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}