Monica Pelliccione wins the Florence Award
Saturday 30 October 2021 – 01:34
Monica Pelliccione wins the Florence – Rive Gauche Award
With “Characters from L’Aquila” as the best non-fiction text
Milan, 30 Oct (askanews) – With the book “Characters from L’Aquila” (Arkhè edizioni) the journalist and writer, Monica Pelliccione, won the sixth edition of the “Florence Prize in Literature – Rive Gauche”, jury medal for the best non-fiction text. The Rive Gauche-Festival literary competition enjoys the patronage of Nardini BookStore, the Liber Pop association and the Centro Parterre. President of the jury Maria Rosaria Perilli, writer and literary critic, president of the Marino Demata Prize.
The works, received from all over Italy, were evaluated by Claudio Baldocci, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and poet, Arrighetta Casini, professor of Italian literature and literary critic, Giorgio Diaz, writer and poet, Elisabetta Bavasso, literary critic and linguistic expert, Giovanni Rodella, art critic and Alessio Sorelli, anthropologist, expert in 19th and 20th century history and literature.
“Characters from Aquila”, published at the end of 2020, is a journey through history and memory in the Eagle of 99 squares, fountains and churches, where members of noble families, Saints and popes, wandering travelers, barefoot preachers and men of arms have passed , kings, queens, poets and sculptors. Among the twenty faces that animate the book Gaius Sallustio Crispo, Frederick II of Swabia, Buccio da Ranallo, Celestino V, Anton Ludovico Antinori, Braccio da Montone, Sant’Agnese, Margherita of Austria up to icons of the modern era as the manager Marisa Bellisario, the archistar Renzo Piano and Beverly Pepper. With “Personaggi Aquilani” Pelliccione has already won the International City of Etiquette Award, the President of the Republic’s medal, the Caffè delle arti competition, the Kalos 2021 International Award and the Ut pictura poesis award. (in the photo: Monica Pelliccione)