Sixty-six unconventional personalities, from Louis-Ferdinand Céline to Hannah Arendt, from Ernst Junger to George Orwell, from Oriana Fallaci to Pier Paolo Pasolini, portrayed by the pencils of Dionisio di Francescantonio and told by the pens of intellectuals, writers and art critics such as Eraldo Affinati, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, Piero Buscaroli, Alfredo Cattabiani, Alain de Benoist, Stenio Solinas. It is “Unlistened Prophets of the Twentieth Century”, a volume edited by Andrea Lombardi and Miriam Pastorino, with a preface by Vittorio Sgarbi, published in the Off Topic series of Italia Storica.
“From Jünger to Conrad, from Pound to Borges, from Ennio Flaiano to Cristina Campo, from Bernanos to Albert Camus. Such an Olympus, and often with the same protagonists, had illustrated, fearless, Tullio Pericoli. Today it is the turn of Dionisio di Francescantonio with drawing and to others, such as Stenio Solinas, with the words – writes Sgarbi in the preface – Art claims that freedom of expression that uncomfortable characters such as Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Hannah Arendt, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Cardinal Giuseppe Siri, have bravely and witnessed differently, even divided by the violent historical events of the twentieth century. I can only look favorably, therefore, at the portraits – accompanied by insights from esteemed thinkers and friends such as Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, Gianfranco de Turris, Luigi Iannone and others – of Dionisio di Francescantonio , so alive and expressive, shining in the darkness of an age without masters “.