The world of Antonio Gramsci in his "I'd tell you other stories, increasingly wonderful", edited by Noemi Ghetti, with illustrations by Francesco Del Casino and afterword by Pietro Clemente (L'Asino d'oro editions).
A world designed by Del Casino with an original trait, an elegant and refined sign, the result of a long and profitable experience also as a muralist in Orgosolo and Armungia. The illustrations accompany Gramscian writings chosen by Noemi Ghetti.
«In these writings - writes Pietro Clemente - Gramsci is both the great intellectual, the father and the child. And so the drawings by Francesco Del Casino tell us about it, something similar to Mowgli from The Jungle Book, with some traits of Huckleberry Finn or other great rascals of literature. But also a man capable of loving, with his narrative force and his ability to imagine and build long-distance relationships, even when they were impossible".
The book was presented in Cagliari in the conference room of the Fondazione di Sardegna in the presence of all the creators of this original rediscovery of significant aspects of the life of the Sardinian thinker. There are Antonio's letters to his sons Delio and Giuliano from prison, and the stories in the letters to his wife Julca Schucht and his sister-in-law Tatiana Schucht. And the suggestions evoked in the letters to his mother and sister.
Gramsci very much alive in Del Casino's illustrations, generous with advice, tenderness and outbursts of affection for his loved ones. Who continues to speak to the younger generations with his rigor and coherence: “Educate yourselves, because we will need all our intelligence. Fret, because we're going to need all our enthusiasm. Get organized, because we will need all of our strength".
