ABSTRACT
Edoardo Sanguineti had a natural theatrical disposition. In front of a lens he moved with gestures which were at the same time confident and ironic. When the University of Salerno organized a conference in honour of Sanguineti, who had taught at that university, his son Federico — a Faculty member at the same institution — decided to give a paper on 'Sanguineti as a Dante critic'. When Sanguineti gave his speech, predictably favourable to the allegorist tendency and to the avant-garde, nobody in the audience uttered a word. In the Nineties the only place left in Italy open to free debate was Reggio Emilia, where Renato Barilli and Nanni Balestrini used to organize 'Ricercare', in the month of May. Once, at Reggio Emilia, the great photographer Giovanni Giovannetti invited students backstage at the Teatro Reggio so he could take some pictures of the two of students — individually and together — for the archives.
