Giovanni: son

Marco: grandson curly hair

Giacomo: grandson glasses

Mum: dead

Dad: dead

Olga: wife? Gentle 

In his poem Montale describes the scorching Ligurian landscape as a metaphor for the desolation of life

Wife: where?

White pills are not candies are not don’t give the children don’t eat

Dante’s journey may be a dream but the passages in the text where he says that are too obscure and the scholars are

Paratore: mentor dead

Virgilio: Paratore’s grandson glasses tall

Si quicquam mutis gratum acceptumue sepulcris accidere a nostro Calue dolore potest quo desiderio ueteres renouamus amores ¹

Read Cicero

Wife: vacation? Dead

 

¹ If the silent grave can receive any pleasure or sweetness at all from our grief Calvus the grief and regret with which we make our old loves live again

Michelangelo Franchini is an Italian author and screenwriter. His short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in many Italian and English literary zines, such as Carmilla, Pastrengo Rivista, Tuffi Rivista, Isit Magazine, Neuro Logical, the big windows review, Maudlin House, and Sublunary Review.