On the occasion of the centenary of Andrea Camilleri’s birth, from Oct. 22 to Nov. 9, 2025, Palazzo Firenze, the historic headquarters of the Dante Alighieri Society (Piazza di Firenze 27, Rome), will host the exhibition Scenes, Voices, Accents, Writings: the Infinite Theater of Andrea Camilleri, organized by the Dante Alighieri Society itself in collaboration with the Andrea Camilleri Fund. The exhibition, curated by Italian literature scholar Giulio Ferroni, with the support of the Dante’s Culture Organizational Unit and produced by Arthemisia, will recount through photographs, annotations, manuscripts, letters, personal objects and audiovisual materials Camilleri’s rich artistic and human journey, highlighting the depth of his thought and the originality of his vision.
Born in Porto Empedocle on Sept. 6, 1925, before conquering the general public with his novels, Camilleri devoted himself to numerous passions: from his poetic beginnings to his career as a director and screenwriter for theater, radio and television, which occupied him for decades, signing the direction of more than a hundred shows, until flowing into fiction and the conception of the famous Commissario Montalbano.
Organized in six sections, the exhibition will illustrate the multiplicity of Camilleri’s world of voices, accents, writing and scenes. Visitors will meet, among characters and protagonists, many figures who have marked the cultural landscape of the 20th century, such as Alba de Céspedes, Elio Vittorini, Orazio Costa, Leonardo Sciascia, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Samuel Beckett, Arthur Adamov and Eugène Ionesco.
Special focuses will be devoted to Camilleri’s intimate connection with Pirandello and the theater of the absurd, his use of historical sources as a source of literary inspiration, his continual linguistic experimentation, the distinctive humor that permeates his works, and what is called his “inner vision”: a kind of poetic response to the blindness that struck him in the last years of his life.
The tour will conclude with a recollection of the play Conversation on Tiresia, a monologue Camilleri staged at the Greek Theater in Syracuse in 2018, a year before his death.
Completing the exhibition will be a multimedia section enriched by content provided by Rai Teche and the Palomar production company, as well as a collection of testimonies from the international literary presidia of the Dante Alighieri Society, which recount the affectionate and enduring bond with Camilleri even beyond Italian borders.
The initiative is part of the calendar of Camilleri Centennial celebrations, promoted by the Andrea Camilleri Fund and the Camilleri 100 National Committee.
The exhibition will be open to the public with free admission.
Photo by Nicola Amato Bif&st. Courtesy of Fondo Camilleri.
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