{"id":230203,"date":"2011-01-10T20:37:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T19:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carlolevifondazione.it\/quaderno-a-cancelli\/"},"modified":"2011-01-10T20:37:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T19:37:19","slug":"quaderno-a-cancelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carlolevifondazione.it\/en\/quaderno-a-cancelli\/","title":{"rendered":"Quaderno a cancelli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carlolevifondazione.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/quaderno-a-cancellibis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/carlolevifondazione.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/quaderno-a-cancellibis-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"quaderno a cancellibis\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carlolevifondazione.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/quaderno-a-cancellibis-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/carlolevifondazione.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/quaderno-a-cancellibis-763x1024.jpg 763w, https:\/\/carlolevifondazione.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/quaderno-a-cancellibis.jpg 920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a>It is the last written piece left by the Turinese author, composed during his state of partial blindness. Carlo Levi was struck, at the end of 1972, by a retinal detachment that caused him temporary blindness and several eye surgeries. From this dramatic experience Quaderno a cancelli was born, published posthumously in 1979 and defined by Giovanni Russo as \u201cCarlo Levi&#8217;s secret book\u201d. It is, indeed, a sort of autobiographical diary that expresses the author&#8217;s thoughts, fears, and ideals are expressed; Levi learned not only to accept, but to recognise the time of illness as a special and privileged time, to the point that he wrote that &#8220;the history of the world is inscribed in the illness, much better and more clearly and profoundly engraved than in the history of ideas and institutions&#8221;. The title of the book recalls its special wire frame, a kind of hinged wooden notebook with lanyards stretched between both sides, designed to guide the writer&#8217;s hand. But, almost certainly, the expression \u201cquaderno a cancelli\u201d (gate notebook) dates from a poem written by Rocco Scotellaro in 1952: \u201cQuesto piccolo quaderno a cancelli \/ l\u2019ho scritto per te di cui non parlo \/ per i tuoi occhi chiusi e i tuoi capelli \/ di cera, il naso che non pu\u00f2 fiutarlo\u201d. The \u201cquaderno a cancelli\u201d of Tricarico\u2019s poet recalls the primary school workbooks of a time, in which the horizontal and vertical bars turn into rails, thus losing the vertical bars and leaving only the horizontal ones, in order to guide the writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the last written piece left by the Turinese author, composed during his state of partial blindness. Carlo Levi was struck, at the end of 1972, by a retinal detachment that caused him temporary blindness and several eye surgeries. From this dramatic experience Quaderno a cancelli was born, published posthumously in 1979 and defined by Giovanni Russo as \u201cCarlo Levi&#8217;s secret book\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-works"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlolevifondazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlolevifondazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlolevifondazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlolevifondazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlolevifondazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carlolevifondazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlolevifondazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlolevifondazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlolevifondazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlolevifondazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}