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It will be found in the Convitto Palmieri and will contain documents and books belonging to the intellectual born in Campi Salentina
Carmelo Bene he will have an archive dedicated to him in the Palmieri boarding school in Lecce. For some months now, what had been a dream of enhancing an essential intellectual and material heritage that has become a reality. The Puglia Region, the Biblio-Museum Pole of Lecce, the Pugliese Public Theater, the Archival and Book Superintendency of Puglia, the Province of Lecce and the heirs of Carmelo Bene, his daughter Salom and his wife Raffaella Baracchi, have managed to bring together the Maestro’s archive is in a single place and make it accessible to the community in Lecce, the city where the Maestro trained and took his first steps in the intellectual field.
Inside the Bene Archive at the Palmieri Convitto in Lecce, a large library houses the master’s personal library; inside rare volumes of art history, theater, literature and history, often accompanied by footnotes written by hand by the same Bene. They allow us to reconstruct a preponderant part of his imagination, because it is the bibliographic and iconographic sources that inspired him in the course of his passionate research, capable of moving beyond the fences of individual areas, under the banner of a plural itinerary, which marks his brilliant work as a playwright, poet, writer, director and all-round intellectual. The publication of the Bene Archive will be presented at the Pi books freer exhibition in Rome.
Carmelo Bene was born in Campi Salentina where his parents run a tobacco factory. been an actor, playwright, director, writer and poet. He spent his childhood and adolescence between the songs of the masses in which he plays the altar boy and those of the tobacconists, baroque palaces and soccer fields, music lessons given by his aunt and operas. Graduated from the Liceo Palmieri, in 1955 in Rome and after a brief experience at the Academy of Dramatic Art, he made his debut in 1959 as a protagonist in Camus’ Caligula. In 1960 Joice’s Ulysses was released, the most important literary encounter of his life. A brief tumultuous period of wandering between Florence and Genoa and back to Rome to animate the Roman underground scene with the Teatro Laboratorio and the Beat 72. He made five films, winning the Special Jury Prize in Venice in 1968 with Nostra Signora dei Turchi. 1988 and 1990 he led a Biennale Theater in Venice without audience and critics. In 1995 Opere collects all his works in the Bompiani Classics. In-Vulnerabilit di Achille, the last show, was staged in 2000. He died in Rome on March 16, 2002.
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