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Manlio Sgalambro
Sgalambro da Lentini, Conegliano 2007 (foto di Paolo Steffan).jpg
Born (1924-12-09)9 December 1924
Lentini, Italy
Died 6 March 2014(2014-03-06) (aged 89)
Catania, Italy
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Manlio Sgalambro (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmanljo zɡaˈlambro]; 9 December 1924 – 6 March 2014) was an Italian philosopher and writer, born in Lentini.

Biography

Philosophical production

Sgalambro did not have certificates or degrees as business cards: how he became a writer of philosophy – whose books are translated into French, German and Spanish – is a mystery that he was not able to explain.

Beginning In 1945 he worked jointly with the review Prisma (directed by Leonardo Grassi): the first writing is Paralipomeni all'irrazionalismo.

From 1959, along with Sebastiano Addamo, he wrote for the magazine Incidenze (founded by Antonio Corsano). His first article for the journal was Crepuscolo e notte (reprinted in 2011). Meanwhile he wrote for the journal Tempo presente (directed by Nicola Chiaromonte and Ignazio Silone).

In 1963, at the age of 39, he got married. The income from citrus orchards inherited from his father was no longer sufficient so he chose to supplement it by undertaking a thesis for a degree and teaching.

In the late 1970s Sgalambro began to organize his thoughts in systematic work.

In the following years, with the same editor, he published: Trattato dell'empietà, Anatol, Del pensare breve, Dialogo teologico, Dell'indifferenza in materia di società, La consolazione, Trattato dell'età, De mundo pessimo and La conoscenza del peggio e Del delitto.

In the meanwhile, in the early 1990s, with some friends he established a small editorial activity in Catania: De Martinis. On the inside, Sgalambro managed pamphlets, publishing a pair of works (Dialogo sul comunismo and Contro la musica) and printed some operas by Giulio Cesare Vanini and Julien Benda.

Collaboration with Battiato

In 1993 he encountered Franco Battiato, accidentally, during the presentation of a common friend's poetry book.

From 1994 until his death he collaborated on almost every one of Franco Battiato's projects. For him he wrote:

  • the libretti of the opera Il cavaliere dell'intelletto, Socrate impazzito, Gli Schopenhauer and Campi magnetici;
  • the lyrics of many pop music albums (L'ombrello e la macchina da cucire, L'imboscata, Gommalacca, Ferro battuto, Dieci stratagemmi, Il vuoto, etc.);
  • the screenplays of the movies Lost Love, Musikanten (about the last years of Beethoven's life) and Niente è come sembra, of the television transmission Bitte keine réclame and of the documentary Auguri don Gesualdo (about Gesualdo Bufalino).

Starting in 1998 he penned song lyrics for Patty Pravo (Emma), Fiorella Mannoia (Il movimento del dare), Carmen Consoli (Marie ti amiamo) and Milva (Non conosco nessun Patrizio).

In 2000 he published the single La mer, containing the cover of the famous song by Charles Trenet.

In 2001 he published the album Fun club, produced by Franco Battiato and Saro Cosentino, containing evergreen songs like La vie en rose (by Édith Piaf) and Moon river (by Henry Mancini), but even the ironic Me gustas tú (by Manu Chao).

In 2007 he lent his voice to the DC-9 airliner in Pippo Pollina's opera Ultimo volo ("Last flight"), about the 1980 loss of Itavia Flight 870 in the Ustica massacre.

In 2009 he published the single La canzone della galassia, containing the cover of The galaxy song (taken from Monty Python's The meaning of life), sung with the Sardinian-English group Mab.

Discography

Album

Singoli

Videography

Videoclips

  • Tre poesie (2004).
  • La canzone della galassia (2009).

Collaborations

Literature

  • Arthur Schopenhauer, La filosofia delle università (Adelphi, 1992 – ISBN: 978-88-459-0943-6).
  • Giulio Cesare Vanini, Confutazione delle religioni (De Martinis, 1993).
  • Julien Benda, Discorso coerente sui rapporti tra Dio e il mondo (De Martinis, 1994).
  • Giuseppe Tornatore, Una pura formalità (De Martinis, 1994).
  • Maurizio Cosentino, I sistemi morali (Boemi, 1998).
  • Ottavio Cappellani, La morale del cavallo: trattato dei cavalieri (Nadir, 1998).
  • Tommaso Ottonieri, Elegia sanremese (Bompiani, 1998).
  • Domenico Trischitta, Daniela Rocca: il miraggio in celluloide (Boemi, 1999).
  • Salvo Basso, Dui (Prova d'autore, 1999).
  • Manlio Sgalambro & Davide Benati, Segrete (La pietra infinita, 2001).
  • Mariacatena De Leo & Luigi Ingaliso, Nell'antro del filosofo: dialogo con Manlio Sgalambro (Prova d'autore, 2002 – ISBN: 978-88-86140-99-7).
  • Manlio Sgalambro, Silvia Batisti & Rossella Lisi, Opus postumissimum: frammento di un poema (Giubbe rosse, 2002).
  • Manlio Sgalambro & Antonio Contiero, Dolore e poesia (La pietra infinita, 2003).
  • Vincenzo Mollica, Franco Battiato: l'alba dentro l'imbrunire (Einaudi, 2004).
  • Riccardo Mondo & Luigi Turinese, Caro Hillman: venticinque scambi epistolari con James Hillman (Bollati Boringhieri, 2004 – ISBN: 978-88-339-1436-7).
  • Antonio Contiero, Galleria Buenos Aires (Aliberti, 2006 – ISBN: 978-88-7424-151-4).
  • Luca Farruggio, Bugie estatiche (Il filo, 2006 – ISBN: 978-88-7842-425-8).
  • Bruno Monsaingeon, Incontro con Nadia Boulanger (Rue Ballu, 2007 – ISBN: 978-88-95689-04-3).
  • Cristina Valenti, Ustica e le sue arti: percorsi tra impegno creatività e memoria (Titivillus, 2007 – ISBN: 978-88-7218-186-7).
  • Franco Battiato, In fondo sono contento di aver fatto la mia conoscenza (Bompiani & L'ottava, 2007).
  • Anna Vasta, I malnati (I quaderni del battello ebbro, 2007 – ISBN: 978-88-86861-59-5).
  • Michele Falzone, Franco Battiato: la Sicilia che profuma d'oriente (Flaccovio, 2008 – ISBN: 978-88-7804-440-1).
  • Arnold De Vos, Il giardino persiano (Samuele, 2009).
  • Angelo Scandurra, Quadreria dei poeti passanti (Bompiani, 2009 – ISBN: 978-88-452-6328-6).
  • AA.VV., Catania: non vi sarà facile si può fare lo facciamo (ANCE, 2009).
  • Franco Battiato, Don Gesualdo: con i contributi di Manlio Sgalambro e Antonio Di Grado (Bompiani & Kasba comunicazioni, 2010).
  • Domenico Cipriano, Novembre (Transeuropa, 2010 – ISBN: 978-88-7580-116-8).
  • Carlo Guarrera, Occhi aperti spalancati (Mesogea, 2011).

Music

Album

Singles

Songs

Cinema

Movies

Documentaries

  • Daniele Consoli, La verità sul caso del signor Ciprì e Maresco (Zelig, 2004).
  • Guido Cionini, Manlio Sgalambro: il consolatore (Nexmedia, 2006).
  • Franco Battiato, Auguri don Gesualdo (Bompiani & Kasba comunicazioni, 2010 – ISBN: 978-88-452-6586-0).

Videos

Theater

  • Manlio Sgalambro & Franco Battiato, Il cavaliere dell'intelletto: opera in due atti per l'ottocentenario della nascita di Federico II di Svevia (1994).
  • Manlio Sgalambro & Franco Battiato, Socrate impazzito (1995).
  • Manlio Sgalambro & Franco Battiato, Gli Schopenhauer (1998).
  • Igor Stravinsky, L'histoire du soldat (1999).
  • Franco Battiato, Campi magnetici: i numeri non si possono amare (2000).
  • Pippo Pollina, Ultimo volo: orazione civile per ustica (2007).
  • Manlio Sgalambro, Carlo Guarrera & Rosalba Bentivoglio, Frammenti per versi e voce (2009).

Television

Curiosities

Music

  • In Di passaggio (from L'imboscata) he declaims in ancient Greek:
  • In Invito al viaggio (from Fleurs) he declaims (in Italian):
  • In Corpi in movimento (from Campi magnetici) he declaims (in Italian):
  • In 2002 he sings a new version – with lyrics adapted philosophically – of Accetta il consiglio (taken from The big Kahuna), published the next year in live album Last summer dance.

Cinema

  • In Perduto amor he acts Martino Alliata, philosophy teacher of the leading character (Corrado Fortuna).
  • In Musikanten he acts a noble man from Siena.

Theater

  • In L'histoire du soldat and in Campi magnetici he is the narrator.

See also

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