Fondazione SASSI
Via San Giovanni Vecchio, 24 Matera (MT)

Monday 14 October 2019 from 19.00 to 20.30

The tales of the bread
Meeting with the authors Ivan Cotroneo and Andrea Moro

Within the festival La Terra del Pane, the Sassi Foundation opens its spaces for the presentation of the new magazine Pantagruel, published by La Nave publishing house of Teseo, which collects unpublished texts by the best authors of Italian and international literature in monographic issues dedicated to themes that intertwine arts, disciplines and knowledge. The number zero is dedicated to the themes of earth and bread.

On Monday, October 14 will be presented the stories of Ivan Cotroneo and Andrea Moro in the presence of the authors.

For information on the festival La Terra del Pane: www.festivaldellaterra.it

ANDREA MORO
Professor of General Linguistics at the Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS Pavia studies the relationship between the structure of grammars of human languages and the brain. He was a visiting scientist at MIT who began attending as a Fulbright student in the late 1980s and at Harvard University. Using artificial grammars, he found that the rules of language are not arbitrary inventions or conventions that depend on culture but are limited by the brain’s neurobiological architecture. He has published essays in various languages including Breve Storia del verbo "essere" (Adelphi; trad. ingl. A brief history of the verb "to be", MIT Press 2017) and Impossible Languages (MIT Press; trad. it. Le lingue impossibili, 2017 Cortina). The Secret of Pietramala (La Nave di Teseo, 2018) is his first literary work.