by Davide Vedovelli

An interview with Valentina Gosetti, vobarnese writer, for the presentation of his latest book, to be held on Monday 9 October at 6.30 pm at Bloom Bar in Salò
 
I arrive by phone Valentina Gosetti, a brilliant girl of vobarnese origin, who has been studying and passion for literature for some years now to teach in the most prestigious European Universities.
 
After attending the "Enrico Fermi" High School in Salò, Valentina obtained a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Bologna and then a Master in French at Balliol College in Oxford. He was a professor at Trinity College (Oxford University, UK) for one year and in Modern French Literature at Balliol College.

He tells us how this idea was born and why he felt the need for an anthology dedicated to French writers.

Licia Gualandris (1907-2004) and Settimio Manelli (1886-1978) are two Christian spouses, Franciscan tertiaries, who have embarked on an exciting model of conjugal virtue with the 21 children who gave life and a long life lived together during the troubled XX century. We can rediscover the wonderful affair of love and faith by reading the new book by Joseph Brienza, Philosophy of the Life of the Servants of God, Licia and Settimio Manelli [with a "Presentation" by Fr. Serafino Tognetti, Superior General of the Children's Community of God, Giuliano Ladolfi publisher, Borgomanero (Novara) 2017, pp. 70, € 10], which, for example, depicts, without hijab, a truly singular personality like that of Settimio Manelli, who, as a scholar, poet and unbelieving writer, thanks to his honesty and soul so sensitive to the "Beautiful" ends up converting and to offer so much fruit in his family, professional and even literary life. This is witnessed by the passage from his first literary productions, with the aesthetic and superomistic tone such as "The Kaiser Song", "Ex Kaiser" and "Spartaco", to those written after conversion as Seeking the Source, considered by many a true masterpiece of spirituality.