Sala Baganza celebrates the link between literature and territory.

From 12 September to 22 November 2025, six Meetings with Parma authors including fiction, poetry, non-fiction, theatre and music, organised by the Municipal Library.

From Friday 12 September to Saturday 22 November 2025, a review of six events with free admission will transform the Municipal Library and the spaces of the Rocca di Sala Baganza into a meeting space between fiction, poetry, non-fiction, theater and music, accompanying the public on a journey that intertwines words, images and sounds.

The first date to mark on the calendar is Friday 12 September with the evening dedicated to the novel “Il falò del Patriarca” (Massimo Soncini Editore, 2025) by Giovanni Bergamini, born in Modena, Parmesan by adoption. The evening will open at 9 pm with “La Rossa”, a scenic reading interpreted by Paola Ferrari on an original text by the author freely based on the novel. This will be followed by a multi-voice dialogue with Bergamini and guests Silvia Bardella and Francesco Ficarra, who will accompany the audience into the atmospheres, family tensions and memories that animate the work.

On Sunday 28 September at 4.30 p.m. in the evocative Oratory of the Assumption of the Rocca, the poet Maddalena Chiari will be the protagonist with “The confessions of Zephyr” (Epika, 2025), a collection of verses inspired by memory and classical myth. The author will introduce the interventions of the actress Ursula Mezzadri, who will comment on the work accompanied by the musical performances of Maestro Davide Pigozzi and Maestro Marta Espejo Fernandez

On Saturday 4 October at 5.30 pm, Jacopo di Noto Marrella will present “The 27 princesses: a fantasy on the operas of Giuseppe Verdi” (Massimo Soncini Editore, 2024), illustrated by Anna Vettori. An original text, in which the works of the Swan of Busseto are told by as many princesses. Marrella published two collections of poetry before landing in the GialloParma series with the novel “The Morandini Case”, which was favorably received by critics.

The fourth appointment of Genius Loci will be on Saturday 11 October at 5 pm with Lorenzo Zucchi, born in Modena but Parmesan by adoption, with “I film belli li danno solo di notte” (Edizioni Underground?, 2025), a novel that tells the story of the attempt to reunite an old group of childhood friends, marked by the suicide of one of them. Between nicknames, night parties and unresolved tensions, the narrative explores trauma, memory and the possibility of rebuilding bonds.

On Saturday, November 15 at 5 p.m., the meeting with Sara Ferraglia who will present “I want a dance” (Giuliano Ladolfi Editore, 2023), a poetry collection that addresses profound issues with intense emotional participation, interpreting the variety of human feelings as an opening to multifaceted reality. Finalist and winner of numerous national awards, Ferraglia has seen her works included in anthologies, literary blogs and theatrical performances.

Closing the “Genius Loci” meetings, on Saturday 22 November at 5 pm, will be Piera Poli Berneri, author of “Giacomo Leopardi: paper, pen and inkwell” (Tipografie Riunite Donati, 2024). A work that explores Leopardi’s correspondence to bring out the human face of the poet, between rebellion and fragility, irony and rationalism, with the intention of bringing readers closer to the genius of the Broom with curiosity and lightness. Together with the author, Giuliano Masola, editor of the editing and author of one of the prefaces, will speak.