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Dolci fatti in casa senza glutine  (Gluten-free homemade desserts)

Marco Scaglione - Gluten-free Chef

Reverdito Publisher
Thursday, 22 October - 4.00 p.m. / 4.30 p.m.

Fortezza da Basso, Spadolini Pavilion, Bookshop Area

Marco Scaglione graduated from the Hotel School in Montecatini Terme and after training in France, he returned to Italy and dedicated himself to gluten-free cuisine, which he became passionate about. It has been a decade since his beginnings and it is now clear that Marco Scaglione's strength lies in the fact that even though he is not a coeliac, he is able to develop innovative recipes.

It is precisely on the book of gluten-free desserts that he has worked hard to create a book dedicated to all coeliacs committed to making both simple and delicate desserts at home. Marco, therefore, has introduced complicated recipes with the use of the mix for mix enthusiasts and simpler ones with commercially available mixes. The most complicated to make are, among the large leavened products, croissants, panettone, pandoro and colomba. In fact, they require peculiar tricks in the right balance of water, starches and eggs: certainly, in this book, they have been given extraordinary attention thanks to more accurate research.

For example, puff pastry or panettone: making them gluten-free was a real challenge, both in terms of crispness, in the first case, and softness in the second. The study and creation of the puff pastry mix required a lot of trial and error in terms of the yield and balance of the same foods in the various mixes. Simply remove the wheat and use alternative cereals such as teff, buckwheat or the entire starch family: we will realise that we can love ‘glutenfree’ by accepting the proposed ingredients. It really is true: just remove gluten and we have a world that changes for the better. These recipes are the clearest example of this, in terms of liquid consistency, use of yeast and natural flavourings, and will give taste to a starch that has no taste.

In conclusion, we can assure all those who want to make the recipes in this book correctly that they will have the joy of sitting down at the table and discovering the ‘pleasure of eating’. Enjoy your meal and have a good digestion!

Harald Szeemann. The Art of Creating Exhibitions
Ambra Stazzone. Afterword by Giacinto di Pierantonio
Fausto Lupetti Publisher
Friday, 23 October - 5.00 p.m. / 5.30 p.m.

Fortezza da Basso, Spadolini Pavilion, Bookshop Area

‘I am not a critic. I am a curator... a poet of space.’ Harald Szeemann (Bern 1933 - Tegna 2005), the first independent curator, is internationally recognised as one of the leading figures in contemporary art. In the course of his long and intense career, he conceived and staged around two hundred exhibitions, many of which are essential for understanding certain fundamental junctures in 20th century art.

The book investigates Szeemann's unique curatorial methodology and his continuous research in relation to the relationship between works and space through an extensive collection of sketches, plans and photographs of installations. A series of previously unpublished conversations with the author collected over the years at the Fabbrica, his studio/archives located in Canton Ticino, introduces a careful reflection on his working method in relation to the main exhibitions he realised, from the disruptive When Attitudes Become Form, to thematic exhibitions such as Le Macchine Celibi, Monte Verità, Der Hang zum Gesamtkunstwerk, monographic exhibitions of artists such as Mario Merz, Joseph Beuys, to the Venice Art Biennales of ‘99 and 2001.

Scirocco. Segni di folate e altri segreti (Sirocco. Signs of gusts and other secrets)

Aniello Ertico
Telemaco Publisher
Saturday, 24 October - 5.00 p.m. / 6.00 p.m.

Fortezza da Basso, Spadolini Pavilion, Bookshop Area

The young and legendary Queen of Sheba, Macheda, is imagined by the author to be on her adventurous journey to meet the wise Solomon in the land of Lucania. 21 poetic prose essays, punctuated by icastic Haiku, punctuate the moods and emotions of this initiatory journey. And epiphanic will turn out to be this journey of crisis and change, in which, first of all, Macheda will encounter the turmoil of her own being female. The feminine, in a play of mirrors, is represented in the transfiguration woman/earth, in the sense of sensuality, fertility, danger and seduction, driven by the gusts of the Sirocco wind, to signify, in a single word, Desire. Accompanying the story is a kaleidoscope of images: 21 plates revive, in chromatic assonances, the verses in painting. Finally, the short film modulates the rhapsodic progression of this journey in moving images, following our imaginary Lucanian Macheda through mythical places, which become an ecstatic station: from the arid light landscapes of the calanchi (MT), to the castle of Monteserico (PZ).