Organized in collaboration with the Andrea Camilleri Fund and curated by Italian literature historian Giulio Ferroni, the exhibition at Palazzo Firenze, seat of the Società Dante Alighieri, is part of the project celebrating the centenary of the birth of one of the most beloved Italian authors of the 20th century.
Featuring original documents, photographs, letters, scripts, rare editions and audiovisual material, accompanied by an audio guide narrated by Marco Presta, a student of Andrea Camilleri at the National Academy of Dramatic Arts, the exhibition explores the Sicilian writer’s life and work, going well beyond his role as the “inventor” of the famous Inspector Montalbano, the protagonist of almost thirty novels published since 1994 that have won over millions of readers, and then a TV series that has become a cultural phenomenon.
The six sections that make up the exhibition reveal to visitors his human and professional universe, his network of contacts and personal relationships with numerous protagonists of Italian cultural life, his intellectual depth, his original vision and the profound consistency of his cultural and artistic commitment as an author, from his early years to international acclaim, through his work in theatre, radio, television, fiction and visual art from the mid-twentieth century to the present day.
The exhibition concludes with the show “Conversazione su Tiresia” (Conversation about Tiresias), the monologue performed by Camilleri at the Greek Theatre in Syracuse in 2018, a year before his death: a poetic and autobiographical “final act”, a moving farewell to his audience. The exhibition is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday to Friday and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays (closed 1-2 November).
Cover image: Andrea Camilleri at his typewriter in his home in Porto Empedocle, 1999, photo by Angelo Pitrone
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