SIENA - An exhibition with a series of drawings inspired by the libretto Bestie, by Federigo Tozzi (Siena 1883 - Rome 1920): this is what the Santa Maria della Scala museum in Siena proposes to celebrate the centenary of the death of the greatest Sienese writer of the Twentieth century. The review, entitled 'Bestie color di carta. The animals in the prose of Federigo Tozzi 'will be open to visitors until March 4, 2022.
The drawings on display are created as a graphic kit for the new edition of the same volume, on behalf of Betti Editrice, with a preface by Riccardo Castellana, text by Fabio Mazzieri and biographical cards of the artists of Maria Pia Lippi Mazzieri.
Bestie is recognized among the author's masterpieces, a work in which Tozzi measures himself with an unusual literary genre, that is an assembly of sixty-nine short prose on various topics in which the apparitions of the 'beasts' are always abrupt and fleeting, becoming the concrete representation of the moods of the author.
Animals that at the same time are usual presences in Federigo Tozzi's daily life, drawn from clearly autobiographical situations, which bring us back to that Sienese society active between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, still deeply linked to artisanal and rural activities.
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