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Viareggio Prize (Premio Viareggio / Premio Letterario Viareggio-Rèpaci) Premio Viareggio-Rèpaci

Edition 61 (1990)

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Winners

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Luisa Adorno Winner

Set in a quiet bourgeois family in postwar Italy, the novel follows summers spent at a house near Mount Etna and everyday life in Rome, tracing memory and generational continuity. Subtle dialogue and a light ironic tone give the family's inward life a finely layered shape.

The memory of summers near Mount Etna settles gradually into the family's conversations.

220 pages
familymemorySicilyRomepostwar Italy

A poetry collection that distills feelings around faith and prayer into fragmented, concentrated language. Stepping away from fixed meanings and labels, it lets the sound and repetition of the name itself bring out spiritual tension and a quiet sense of elevation.

Calling and repeating a name turns language itself into poetry.

144 pages
poetry collectionprayerreligious feelingrepetitionlanguage

An art-historical monograph that reads Caravaggio's life and work through the intersections of documents, iconography, and the culture of his time. It traces the tension between violence and redemption, naturalism and religiosity, and places the painter's art in a fully historical frame.

The book digs into Caravaggio's pictorial world from both documentary and iconographic angles.

478 pages
art historyCaravaggioiconographyBaroquereligious painting