HERE IF EVER YOU COME/ Isabella Benone e Claudia Di Palma

Claudia Ruggeri's poetry touches the deepest chords of the soul. Her verses gave voice to a dense and unbearable existential emptiness during the period of cultural ferment in Salento in the 1980s. A black restlessness that led her to take her own life at the age of just 29. Her poems are declaimed by Claudia Di Palma on the notes of Isabella Benone's violin, as part of the review 'Qui se mai verrai, il Salento dei poeti', organised by the Fondo Verri, until October, as part of the initiatives promoted for Summer 2022 by the municipal administration. "T'avrei lavato i piedi/oppure mi avrebbe fatto altissima/come i soffitti scavalcati di cieli/come voce in voce si sconquassa" ("I would have washed your feet/and I would have made myself very high/as the ceilings of the skies/as voice in voice is shattered") are her famous verses that, invisible and immaterial, climb up to the branches of the ficus magnolia in the courtyard of the former Sant'Anna convent that silently witnesses the memory of a rare soul. Organisation, curatorship and literary consultancy are by Mauro Marino, Simone Giorgino and Piero Rapanà.

Free entrance.

Info: 327/3246985.