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CANCELLED – Book Presentation and Reading | Un brindisi alla malattia (A Toast to Illness) by Corrado Paina

DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

The Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto is pleased to present the Italian edition of Corrado Paina’s collection of poems Un brindisi alla malattia (A Toast to illness) published by Societa’ Editrice Fiorentina, Firenze, 2022.

POETRY READING AND BOOK PRESENTATION

Un brindisi alla malattia

by

Corrado Paina

Moderated by 

Luca Somigli
Chair, Department of Italian Studies
University of Toronto

Thursday, June 30 | 6:30PM EDT

Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto
496 Huron Street

FREE EVENT | REGISTRATION REQUIRED

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Un brindisi alla malattia is a direct poetic testimony of Corrado Paina’s extended affliction with a long illness that he is surviving.

A long odyssey and at the same time impossible to avoid, a true journey through the physical and psychological phases that the illness imposes on the patient. It is the author himself that evokes this journey as a metaphor, being himself an avid traveller.  Paina seems to see every aspect of his own existence, including the most difficult ones as indeed the illness itself, as a journey, a crossing that leads to new places even when one is set in a specific space because, in the end, it is the traveller who has actually changed. 

Luca Somigli

Readings will be presented in both Italian and English.

Light refreshments will follow.

  • Organizzato da: Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto