AA.VV., "Witness of Europe." Introduction to the work of Piero Scanziani "Swiss Edition, Chiasso (Switzerland) 1991
and
Piero Scanziani," River from the mouth to the source "Swiss Editions, Morbio (Switzerland) 1996
Figure of Piero Scanziani is atypical in the literary scene Italian. Born in 1908 in Canton Ticino , Scanziani has always written in Italian, is distinguished by a highly heterogeneous production: novels, drama ( Alessandro of 1968), various essays, some of argument Wisdom - think of Aurobindo (1973) and especially Entronauta ( 1969) - an autobiography, just River from the mouth to the source where the third person, is narrated his adventure and human spiritual.
Witness of Europe is a compilation of contributions by several authors put together to celebrate the eighty years Scanziani of . The first volume collects the author's comments on literary path, the second part is devoted to his vision of the world (an outstanding contribution posthumous Massimo Scaliger, the affectionate profile spiritual dashed by his second wife and a Gaia Grimani short written Emilio Servadio ) and the third part contains testimonies of journalists and cultural figures.
What emerges is a portrait in the round of this isolated voice, twice proposed for the Nobel Prize for literature, which has ranged as a pansòfo Renaissance, from medicine (see the trilogy The art of longevity, L 'Art of youth and The art of healing) to zoology (Scanziani was the "creator of the Neapolitan mastiff) to literature itself. All
, to resume his neologism, from "Entronauta" or inner explorer.
Louis Turinese
In photos: 'Hidden trolls "
Review appeared in the" Books "to" PARAM, notebooks and the practice of Buddhism for dialogue ", Year XV, No. 58, April-June 1996
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