A hand -brought sheet can keep a secret, reveal a truth or unmask a culprit. It is precisely from this suggestion that the fourth edition of Manu Scriberethe first Italian festival entirely dedicated to manual writing, promoted by the Italian Graphological Association (AGI). From 19 to 21 September Bologna becomes the capital of the written word “by hand” with a fascinating and disturbing theme: “Ink weaves. Writing and graphology between yellows, crimes and mysteries”.
The review, which enjoys the patronage of Unesco, Emilia Romagna Region, Municipality of Bologna and University of Urbino, will wind between the Enzo Biagi auditorium of the Salaborsa Library and the theater of Villa Aldrovandi Mazzacorati, a precious eighteenth -century jewel unique in Italy for its acoustics. “Manual writing – recalls the national president of Agi, Guglielmo Incerti Caselli – is not only a daily gesture, but a profound and personal tool, capable of revealing hidden aspects of the person and the emotions of the writer».
The Festival opens on Friday 19 September with Notes of mysteryshow that unites music and graphology: the soundtracks of Famous yellow and detective films by Ennio Morricone, Fabio Frizzi, Nicola Piovani, Stelvio Cipriani and Piero Umbiliani are performed by the students of the GB Martini Conservatory of Bologna, while the graphologist Roberta Raimondi analyzes the scriptures of the composers.
The heart of the event beats strong the next day, with a program that mixes black chronicle, testimonies and scientific analyzes. We start with an in -depth analysis of the Pietro Pacciani case: the psychiatrist Marco Monzani and the writer Roberto Taddeo will reconstruct the story, while the graphologist Alessandra Cervellati will analyze the handwriting of the alleged “monster of Florence”. Then the intense voice of Monica Marchioni, a mother who survived the attempted murder by the son, will intertwine with the story of the journalist Cristina Battista. And again, the journalist Fabio Poletti will share his personal correspondence with Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber, among the best known criminals of the century.
The day will continue with A technical focus on anonymous letters, which forensic graphologists know how to unmask despite the attempts of calligraphic disguise. Space also to the testimony of the lawyer Fabio Trinino, lawyer of the Borsellino family, who will tell the contribution of graphology in the trial on the sidetrack of the massacre in via D’Amelio. To close, Lidia Fogarolo will analyze the roots of female violence through the rare but incisive cases of assassins.
Finally, on Sunday 21 September, the television journalist Marco Oliva will bring the public inside the letters from the prison of Olindo Romano and Massimo Bossetti, protagonists of the massacre of Erba and the Yara crime, in dialogue with the actress Patrizia Caselli and the graphologist Carla Salmaso.
Next to the meetings, Manu Scribere proposes a rich Free laboratories billboard. Among the most awaited innovations, the one by the scientific police, which will show how the analysis of writing can frame a murderer in investigations on kidnappings, murders, extortions or terrorist acts. There is no shortage of proposals for the little ones – with ludic activities of drawing and prescription – nor for teenagers, who will be able to try their hand at puzzles and codes with the Golinelli Foundation. Adults, on the other hand, will have the opportunity to approach the Corsiva calligraphy led by Maestro Alessandro Salice.
Three intense days, between literary suggestions and forensic science, in which the ink becomes a witness of lives, crimes and passions. Because handwriting is not a simple ancient gesture, but a key that still opens the doors of mystery today.
The whole program on www.manusribere.it
