Leporello hosts the presentation of Portraits and Places. Steve Turtell, poet, writer and friend of Peter Hujar, will read from his autobiographical essays and discuss them with Giulia Crispiani. The book brings together six intimate essays offering a personal view of a New York that, fifty years on, feels both vivid and distant. From the first Gay Pride march to Frank Zappa's thirtieth birthday party, to the end of a cherished friendship w

After two months in Rome as part of a residency supported by the Goethe-Institut, curator Alexis de Bonis presents Chronology of Love — on Dario Bellezza. Somewhere between storytelling and research, the project takes the literary work of Dario Bellezza as its starting point to explore the relationships between language, translation and the act of loving. Through the play of quotation, Chronology of Love — on Dario Bellezza traces an intertextual genealogy that sets his writing in