“La penna del Magnifico”
Writers meet the students in Florence

This is the calendar of our appointments:
April 23rd "Travel in Literature" (6.30 pm at the “Edison” bookstore on Piazza della Repubblica)
May 21st “Two books following the thread of our historical memory” (5 pm, at the ‘Sala Ferri’ of Palazzo Strozzi, Florence)
June 14th "Writers on the Internet" (5 pm, at the tavern “Divina Commedia ”, on Via dei Cimatori 7r, Florence)
October 24th "Writers and poets in today’s Italy" (5 pm, at Centro Linguistico Italiano Dante Alighieri, CLIDA, Piazza della Repubblica 5, Florence, 2nd floor)
November 22nd "Books on topical themes" (5 pm, at the tavern “Divina Commedia”, in Via dei Cimatori 7r, Florence)

The initiative "La penna del Magnifico”, promoted by the “Cittadini del Mondo” Association (www.cittadinidelmondo.net), with the participation of the literary blog “La poesia e lo spirito” and of the literary website “Domist.net – International Literary Project”, will consist of a series of meetings between writers and other operators of the cultural world and the students of the University of Florence, of Florentine high schools and of Florencebased schools for Foreigners.
Focused on topical themes of nowadays’ society, this new cultural proposal aims at recovering the central role of reading and writing, at a time when these activities apparently seem to have lost their importance.
The goal of the speeches and presentations of our guests, open to debate with the audience, will be that of raising people’s cultural curiosity, emphasizing literary works of particular relevance and offering both established and emerging authors an opportunity to express their ideas.

Conceiver and organiser of “LA PENNA DEL MAGNIFICO”:
Giovanni Agnoloni
www.domist.net/giovanniagnoloni
mobile +39 3403975477

Born in Florence on September 9th 1976, he attended the “Liceo Classico Galileo” in Florence and then obtained an honours degree in Law from the University of Florence. He has published the essay Letteratura del fantastico – I giardini di Lorien (Spazio Tre, 2004), focused on The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, apart from other articles on the theme of ‘fantasy’. Other publications of his are the English thriller Less Than a Mile (Stonegarden,
2004), the short story collections Frammenti galleggianti and Parabole terra (Agebook, 2004 & 2007; ebooks on www.agebook.com) and a short story included in the collection Noir No War, coordinated by Alda Teodorani and Marco Milani (Giulio Perrone, 2006). He also appears in the official book of the Literary Prize “Raccontare la periferia 2”, edited by the Gabinetto Scientifico Letterario G.P. Vieusseux (ed. Polistampa, 2008), with the short story Anime di campioni del mondo. He collaborates with the “International Literary Project” of the website Domist.net, and has published several short stories and poems in English and Spanish on American and Spanish literary reviews and websites. He also is a contributor to the literary blog “La poesia e lo spirito”. A couple of short stories of his have recently been published on the literary blog “Nazione Indiana”.
He is a literary and technical translator for the Italian, English, Spanish, French and Portuguese languages.

Together with : Leonardo Bettucci, Simone Billi, Agnieszka Moroz, Francesco Gori and David Torrini.