We look forward to welcoming you to the Palazzo Corboli Museum for a new series of “Appointment at the Museum”: encounters with Art and Culture!

PROGRAM:

Official Greetings: Enrica Ercoli, Councillor for Culture, Municipality of Asciano

Introduction: Stefano Tesi, Journalist and President of DMO Lauretana ETS “The Crete Senesi: Literature and Landscape”

Presentation of the novel: “Il Campo di Gosto” by Anna Luisa Pignatelli.
Interview with the author conducted by Elisa Rubegni, Director of the Asciano Museums, and Francesco Brogi, Researcher and Vice President of the Association for Cultural Research in Asciano (A.R.C.A.), with a contribution by Professor and author Fabio Pellegrini.

Followed by a farewell cocktail.

 Anna Luisa Pignatelli, born in Tuscany, has spent many years outside Italy, including several in Tanzania, Portugal, South Korea, and Guatemala. She is well known in France, where in 2010 she won the Prix des lecteurs de Var with the translation of her short story collection Nero Toscano. With Ruggine, published by Fazi Editore in 2026, highly praised by both the public and critics, she won the Premio Lugnano 2016. Also for Fazi Editore, in 2019, she published Foschia.

"Il campo di Gosto" is a tense story that plays on the contrast between the sunlit Tuscan landscapes and the inner shadows of its protagonist.

A writer with a strong and unmistakable voice, the author offers readers a bitter yet profound tale that, through brief memories, traces the existential arc of a man, while reflecting on the inequities and cruelties of the world. Gosto is an old, lonely man, caught between the inhospitable place he lives in and the malice of his fellow villagers, yet he is also the portrait of someone who has never lost faith in others and has preserved his love for life intact.

With a concise and clear prose, the author fits into a well-established tradition, doing so with her own distinctive style which, as Antonio Tabucchi noted, makes her "an unusual voice in today’s Italian literature: lyrical, sharp, and desolate."

Free event.

Where: Palazzo Corboli Museum, C.so G. Matteotti 122, Asciano, Siena

4:00 PM

Event organized in co-operation with the M. Monicelli Municipal Library of Asciano.

Information: +39 0577 714450 | palazzocorboli@museisenesi.org