Franco Battiato - Inneres Auge
I have never read Satyricon; I was familiar with Fellini’s cinematic version, who said: “Encolpio and Ascilto are two students, half layabouts and half hippies, who move from one adventure to another, even the most disastrous, with the innocent naturalness and splendid vitality of two young animals.”
I know the plot of the book, which talks about sex, eroticism, and the moral and cultural degradation of Latin society at the time, and the beginning of the book, which describes an outrage committed by Encolpio against the phallic deity Priapus, who from that moment on will haunt him, provoking a series of tragicomic erotic failures.
Satyricon by Petronius Arbiter (possibly 1st century A.D.) translated by Nino Marziano in 1922, published by Mursia: a beautiful book with a warm-colored cover from 1969 that I had, hidden in the second row, among the old family books. Almost perfect book - apart from a small coffee stain on the spine. I promise to read it because if I have to choose what to take with me to the island, I cannot ignore Petronius, Fellini, and Battiato! Why Battiato? From Wiki: The first track of the eponymous album Inneres Auge by Franco Battiato contains the explicit quote from Satyricon “what would charlatans and fraudsters live on if they didn’t have ready cash to throw like bait among the people?”
I have never read Satyricon; I was familiar with Fellini’s cinematic version, who said: “Encolpio and Ascilto are two students, half layabouts and half hippies, who move from one adventure to another, even the most disastrous, with the innocent naturalness and splendid vitality of two young animals.”
I know the plot of the book, which talks about sex, eroticism, and the moral and cultural degradation of Latin society at the time, and the beginning of the book, which describes an outrage committed by Encolpio against the phallic deity Priapus, who from that moment on will haunt him, provoking a series of tragicomic erotic failures.
Satyricon by Petronius Arbiter (possibly 1st century A.D.) translated by Nino Marziano in 1922, published by Mursia: a beautiful book with a warm-colored cover from 1969 that I had, hidden in the second row, among the old family books. Almost perfect book - apart from a small coffee stain on the spine. I promise to read it because if I have to choose what to take with me to the island, I cannot ignore Petronius, Fellini, and Battiato! Why Battiato? From Wiki: The first track of the eponymous album Inneres Auge by Franco Battiato contains the explicit quote from Satyricon “what would charlatans and fraudsters live on if they didn’t have ready cash to throw like bait among the people?”
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