Tribute to Calvino (1923-2023)

On the image of the city, Calvino has written a great deal, and so begins one of his lectures from 1975 entitled “Gli dei delle città”, the gods of cities.

The final day of the seventh edition of Utopian Hours could not but have a tribute to Italo Calvino, exactly 100 years after his birth.

Reading one of the greatest Italian writers of all time will be Gabriele Vacis, a Turin-based director and playwright known for his collaboration with Marco Paolini in Racconto del Vajont and former director of the Teatro Stabile di Torino’s school for actors.

Vacis, an architect by training, will take us into the imaginary cities of The Invisible Cities, which tell our present better than any other narrative and invite us to change the way we see our cities.
Calvino is not just utopian literature. Through his works we rediscover the value of collective life, and a vision in which experimenting and innovating is possible and necessary.

Cover: ‘Anastasia’ courtesy of Carlo Stanga (limited edition fine art print of the work, signed on 100% cotton paper and with certificate of authenticity, available from Bonvini1909 in Milan).