{"id":2720,"date":"2019-04-27T14:25:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T14:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.archiviomariogiacomelli.it\/?page_id=2720"},"modified":"2020-11-22T12:46:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T12:46:10","slug":"a-silvia-di-giacomo-leopardi-to-silvia-by-giacomo-leopardi-poetry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.archiviomariogiacomelli.it\/en\/a-silvia-di-giacomo-leopardi-to-silvia-by-giacomo-leopardi-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"To Silvia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archiviomariogiacomelli.it\/1964-1988-a-silvia\/\">Images<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giacomo_Leopardi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Giacomo Leopardi<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archiviomariogiacomelli.it\/a-silvia-di-giacomo-leopardi-mario-giacomelli\/\">poem<\/a> A Silvia, Giacomelli created this series in 1964. Giacomelli followed the screenplay written by Luigi Crocenzi, the theorist of the photo-story, and it aired on RAI that same year. Giacomelli returned to the series in 1988 and radically changed it to make it more visionary and less literal. It centres on mystery.<br \/>\n\u2018Giacomelli said in an interview: \u201cIt isn\u2019t about [&#8230;] what I see, but what I want to anticipate. This being here and at the same time not being here, becomes a subtle game of life and death.\u201d This is exactly the same threshold occupied by the protagonist of A Silvia and the lovers in <strong>Caroline Branson<\/strong>. [&#8230;] Giacomelli does not perceive or photograph things as they are, but in the moment they are about to disappear, just as they enter the ambiguous and tragic coexistence of opposing forces. [&#8230;] Similarly, Leopardi\u2019s vivid recollection of carefree moments and Silvia\u2019s \u201claughing and fleeting\u201d eyes while she is still alive, contrasts with other verses in which he is painfully aware of her death: it is like looking at an old photograph of someone you once held dear, now gone forever. The pathos of Leopardi\u2019s poem comes from this \u201cseeming absence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.archiviomariogiacomelli.it\/en\/mario-giacomelli-giacomo-leopardi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">M Andreani in <em>Mario Giacomelli. Giacomo Leopardi, L&#8217;infinito, A Silvia<\/em><\/a>, Silvana Editoriale 2019).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archiviomariogiacomelli.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mario-Giacomelli-A-Silvia-\u00a9-Rita-Giacomelli-9.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1790\" src=\"https:\/\/www.archiviomariogiacomelli.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mario-Giacomelli-A-Silvia-\u00a9-Rita-Giacomelli-9-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"719\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.archiviomariogiacomelli.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mario-Giacomelli-A-Silvia-\u00a9-Rita-Giacomelli-9-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.archiviomariogiacomelli.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mario-Giacomelli-A-Silvia-\u00a9-Rita-Giacomelli-9-768x583.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.archiviomariogiacomelli.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mario-Giacomelli-A-Silvia-\u00a9-Rita-Giacomelli-9-1024x777.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.archiviomariogiacomelli.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mario-Giacomelli-A-Silvia-\u00a9-Rita-Giacomelli-9.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Images Inspired by Giacomo Leopardi\u2019s poem A Silvia, Giacomelli created this series in 1964. Giacomelli followed the screenplay written by Luigi Crocenzi, the theorist of the photo-story, and it aired on RAI that same year. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>To Silvia - MARIO GIACOMELLI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nel 1964 Giacomelli crea questa serie ispirata all\u2019omonima lirica di Giacomo Leopardi, seguendo la sceneggiatura\u00a0di Luigi Crocenzi, pensata per la Rai TV.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.archiviomariogiacomelli.it\/a-silvia-di-giacomo-leopardi-to-silvia-by-giacomo-leopardi-poetry\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[:it]A Silvia[:en]To Silvia[:] - 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