Presentation: “Visto si stampi” by Bruna Magi

A curious essay book, borned in a singular moment for the world.
A moment before the demarcation between the old and the new world, when start to dominate the Covid 19.
Almost with a backhand stroke of a magic wand, it revives our previous “era”.
Bruna Magi travels backwards, but transports the past into the present, revives it as if it were actuality, tells the beloved newspapers as the paper world is falling and glorious newspapers disappear, swallowed by the network and social networks, supplanted by fake news, by a rampant vulgarity and from political hatreds.
Here is the keystone of this volume, elastic and loose, a sort of jouney through newspapers and literature, cinema and passion, the itineraries (almost Dante’s neo-gyrons of the third millennium) of a professional life lived in the golden age of journalism and studded with encounters with epochal figures such as Frank Sinatra, Luca di Montezemolo, Bettino Craxi, Fabrizio De André, Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Burgess, Federico Fellini, Kevin Costner, Brad Pitt, Sophia Loren and Vittorio Gassman.
They are person beyond all conformism, sometimes indulgent, have fun and almost tender, sometimes ruthless.
Seen be printed is the portrait of a glorious “as we were”, the celebration of a cultural world in poised, not yet bent on hashtags and tweets by influencer, as well as a small reflection on the meaning of history. With an entire chapter dedicated to Venice Film Festival.
The critic Giorgio Gosetti intervenes, General Delegate aof Giornate degli Autori at the Venice Film Festival.