Alessia La Villa and Leandro Vanni present “Metà giardino, metà galera”

Just published in the essay series by Centro Studi Erickson Publisher “Half garden, half prison. The words of the prison in Italian music” represents a simple and ambitious project at the same time. To tell about the prison and its protagonists through the musical pieces that Italian artists have dedicated to this often uncomfortable theme from the post-war period to today. It is a long journey offered by the authors of the book who experience the reality of the prison every day from different angles: Alessia La Villa as an educator, and Leandro Vanni as an inspector of the Penitentiary Police.

Following the chronological thread of History with a capital letter with its days and its events, the authors have focused their attention on the words that Italian singer-songwriters have chosen to tell the stories with a lowercase letter that “overcrowd” the prison. In this journey we will therefore have the opportunity to get to know the Michè of De Andrè a prisoner, the lifer of Dalla, the young Cerutti Gino of Gaber, the man who left the prison of De Gregori, the judge of Vecchioni, the custody agents who arrived “From the Goats” by Lolli, Hitler who ends up in jail with Piero Ciampi, the prison of 1975, year of the Penitentiary System Reform, narrated in the album by Gianni Siviero.

The meeting is the second appointment of the festival “Donna, libro, altro”, curated by Enrico Pompeo. All events will take place at the Feltrinelli bookstore in Livorno.