The volume "In the shadow of the volcano. Futurism in Sicily and Marinetti's Etna"Published by Olschki Publisher, 2020, proposes, on the one hand, a study of the two most important Sicilian futurist magazines "La Balza futurista" and "Haschisch". If the "Balza futurista", "the first truly futurist magazine", was printed in Ragusa with the help of the poet Vann'Antò in the typography inaugurated by the "baron of the villains", Serafino Amabile Guastella, a man who never moved he ancient County of Modica, "Haschisch" is the magazine of young people from Catania who followed Commander D'Annunzio right into the City of Life, young people who, intoxicated by the "revolution festival", as in the case of Salvatore Lo Presti, literally ran away from his father's house to pursue a dream of beauty. On the other side there is Marinetti and his desired relationship with the Father, a father courted, imagined, prophesied and then finally known in depth on the occasion of the First Etna campsite, organized in August 1925 by the visionary trio made up of the engineer Vismara, the entrepreneur Mollica Alagona and the volcanologist Gaetano Ponte. A father called Etna, already glimpsed at the time of King Spree, and that he will accompany his own son until his last days, those of theAeropoem of Jesus.
Andrea GG Parasiliti (Ragusa 1988). Graduated in Modern Philology at the Catholic University of Milan, he obtained a research doctorate at the University of Catania. Collaborator of the European Research Center Book Publishing Library CRELEB and, in 2018, of PRISMES (Langues, Textes, Arts et Cultures du Monde Anglophone - Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris) is the author of: From the reader's side. Rumor of the infector between exegesis and ebook, Baglieri 2012; The Totality of the Word. Origins and cultural perspectives of the digital book, Baglieri 2014. Curator de Cards and pages. Sources for the study of twentieth-century publishing (Unicopli 2017), translated the New Observations on the Word in the Ancient Near East by Scott B. Noegel (CRELEB – Catholic University 2014). Freelance journalist, he is currently Post-doctoral Fellow of the Department of Italian Studies of the University of Toronto.
