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«Far from the world and from the time, detached. Property and imperishable, Venice must be respected as far as possible. Do not touch me , dice.»

( Bruno Barilli, The boot )
Bruno Barilli

Bruno Barilli (Fano, 14 December 1880 – Rome, April 15, 1952) was an Italian writer and music critic.

He was born in Fano in 1880, from Cecrope, a Parmesan painter, and from the Marche Anna Aanti. He moved after a short time to Parma, where he began to study musical composition at the Arrigo Boito Conservatory and continued with the orchestral direction to Conductor school of Munich, but however he chose to devote himself to the music critic activity.

In Munich Barilli met the student from Serbian Danitza Pavlovic (grandson of King Pietro Karađorđević), who then married and from whom he had a daughter, the famous painter Milena Pavlović-Barilli. As a composer he left only two theatrical works. Returned to Italy in 1910, the realization of Medusa , a three -act work on Booklet by O. Schanzer, who in 1914 won the Mac Cormick competition in Milan, but the work was never represented.

June 1939: first issue of the weekly Today
Rome: Caffè Aragno in the 1950s
A portrait of Bruno Barili painted by his daughter Milena (1938)

With Medusa , his other title is Emiral (booklet of the composer), considered one of its most successful themes, in fact obtained prizes and awards, including that of a well -known Roman competition for musical works chaired by Giacomo Puccini. [first]

In 1919 Barilli founded in Rome, where he had in the meantime moved, the magazine Round , keeping a permanent column entitled Delirama . In the same period he was an assiduous visitor to Caffè Aragno, a well -known literary meeting of the capital.

Soon his interests, while remaining linked to the artistic environment, were mainly directed towards a peculiar music criticism, the result of his experience as a composer and time not so much to the comparison between the composers and the interpreters, as to grasp the essence of music in the nascent act.

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In 1925 he was among the signatories of the Manifesto of fascist intellectuals , drawn up by the philosopher Giovanni Gentile. From 1939 to 1941 he was a fixed collaborator of the weekly Today by Arrigo Benedetti.

Barilli was above all a writer. Although partly anticipated by Renato Fondi, he composed in 1929 a series of stories entitled The town of Melodrama , where he made use of the collaboration of some of his artists’ friends; He also published an edition in France in 1938. The text represented the concretization of his great passion for the Italian classic melodrama and in particular for that of Giuseppe Verdi.

Among other works they can be remembered Delirama of 1924 and 1944 with unpublished, entitled of his homonymous column of criticism, The sorcio in the violin (1926), The sun trapped , published after returning from a long journey to the African continent (1941), and finally Vagliardo whims the year before his disappearance. He died in Rome, at seventy -one years old, in 1952.

His model of music criticism revealed himself rather original, as Barilli did not appreciate musicology and not even the technical considerations and linguistic exams, but the work “impressions”, arising from a superfine taste. [first]

His brothers Arnaldo and Latino were respectively a historian of art and a painter. His nephew Carlotta (1935-2020) was an actress of cinema, theater and television.

ISMET (baritone), greatly Elirate (1924). Historic Archive Ricordi
  • Delirama, A drawing by Armando Spadini and a writing by Emilio Cecchi, Rome, Roman graphics Ind. Ars Nova, 1924
  • The sorcio in the violin , preface by Emilio Cecchi, Milan, Bottega di Poetia, 1926; Turin, Einaudi, 1982 by L. Avellini and A. Cristiani, introduction by M. Lavagetto
  • The town of Melodrama , Lanciano, Giuseppe Carabba, 1929; Turin, Einaudi, 1985, edited by Luisa Viola and Luisa Avellini; Milan, Adelphi, 2000, with an essay by Fedele D’Amico; Parma, Monte University Parma, 2003, Preface by Gustavo Marchesi
  • Paris, With sixteen drawings by Milena Pavlovich Barilli, Lanciano, Carabba, 1938.
  • The sun trapped , Florence, Sansoni, 1941.
  • Delirama, reprint with the addition of 19 unpublished prose, 2050 specimens of which 250 on special paper numbered in the car, Rome, Roman editorial, 1944.
  • London memories , Rome, new Italian editions, 1945.
  • The flying traveler , Milan, A. Mondadori, 1946; Padua, F. Muzzio, 1999
  • Vagliardo whims , Milan, editions of the Meridiana, 1951; Then in Capricci of a vigil and unpublished notebooks (1901-1952) , Turin, Einaudi, 1989, edited by Andrea Battistini and Andrea Cristiani
  • The boot , with Enrico Falqui’s warning, Rome, Casini, 1952; Then The boot. Journey from the Adriatic Riviera to the Ligurian cities, from Venice to the Amalfi coast, from Sicily to Milan , Padova, F. Muzzio, 1999
  • (with Alberto Savinio), Alfredo Casella , edited by Olga Rudge, Milan, in the name of goldfish, 1957
  • To clandestine lottery, Rome, The Arco Edizioni d’Arte, 1975; Then Genoa, San Marco dei Giustiniani editions , 2015, edited by N. Ferrari, “Notebooks in letters of blue”, 2015, ISBN 978-88-7494-2589
  • Giuseppe Verdi, Florence, N. Galluzzo, 1982
  • The bewildered viewer. Cinematographic Chronicles , preface by Attilio Bertolucci, Parma, Practices, 1982
  • The camera n. 13 , Drawings of Scipione, Rome, Edizioni della Cometa, 1987
  • The Serbian War , edited by Giorgio Pellegrini, Rome, Editori Riuniti, 1993

His works were collected and reorganized in two volumes by Enrico Falqui:

  • The travel book , Florence, Vallecchi, 1963.
  • The country of the melodrama and other musical writings , Florence, Vallecchi, 1963.
  1. ^ a b “Le Muses”, De Agostini, Novara, 1964, vol.ii, page 54
  • Arnaldo Bocelli, « Barilli, Bruno » in Biographical Dictionary of Italians , Volume 6, Rome, Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia, 1964.
  • Andrea Battistini, The Aphorisms of the Vegliardo: notes on Barilli’s unpublished notebooks , Pisa, Pacini, 1987.
  • Fausto Sartorelli, Bruno Barilli , Parma, Battei, 1988.
  • Enzo Siciliano, « Barilli, Bruno »The rumor in the Encyclopedia of cinema , Rome, Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia, 2003.
  • Bruno Barilli: writer artist Funambolo: Central National Library of Rome, March 24-May 23, 2015, Treatment of Paola Montefoschi and Giovanna Caterina De Feo; With the collaboration of Giuliana Zagra, Rome: National Central Library, 2015 (contains the exhibition catalog and essays by various authors)

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