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Alberto Savinio
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Tragedy of Childhood
Tragedy of Childhood tells the events that occur during a young boy's recovery from serious illness including a sea voyage and a summer vacation.
Operatic Lives
Writing under the pen name Alberto Savinio, Andrea de Chirico (brother of painter Giorgio) penned fourteen short portraits of such luminaries as the painter Arnold Böcklin, the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, Verdi, Stradivarius, Nostradamus, Paracelsus, Jules Verne, the bullfighter Bienvenido, Isadora Duncan, and Carlo Collodi, the creator of Pinocchio. In these biographies, Savinio's complex tone is at times warm and cordial -and, at other times, ironic to the point of malignancy.
Alberto Savinio
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Speaking to Clio
Speaking to Clio is the journal of brief trips Savinio took in 1939 to the Abruzzi highlands and the Etruscan burial places at Cerveteri and Tarquinia.
Signor Dido
Painter, musician, journalist, essayist, playwright, and composer, Alberto Savinio was one of the most gifted and singular Italian writers of the twentieth century. Italian critics rank him alongside Pirandello, Calvino and Sciascia, but he is hardly known to American readers. He was the younger brother of Giorgio De Chirico, and Andre Breton said that the whole Modernist enterprise might be found in the work of these two brothers. Savinio composed five operas and more than forty books. A friend of Apollinaire, figures on the scene during Savinio's artistic and literary career included Picasso, Cocteau, Max Jacob and Fernand Leger. As the translator says, "his writing, like his panting, move...
Capri
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Alberto Savinio
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Art of Enigma
Biography of these artist and writer brothers that places them within the context of myth, history, and Italian culture politics.
Alberto Savinio
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