Luca Sillari

Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453-present.
Vol. editors: Carla Bregman (Independent Scholar - North America), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

Dates

Born 4 May 1973
Activity 1996-ongoing

Places

Born in Italy
Active in Italy

Activities

Primary

Musician
Playwright / Dramatist
Poet
Singer

Resources

Sillari's Works

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Luca Sillari was born in Genoa to a Genoese mother and a father who had moved to Genoa around the age of twenty but who was originally from the valley of Asta at the foot of Monte Cusna in the Reggio Emilia Apennines. During his childhood he spent summers in his father’s Apenninic hometown, where his family frequently attended

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performances, a form of folk opera native to the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines in existence at least as far back as the 1700s. Today he is one of the most prolific contemporary authors of the epic

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tradition, having written ten plays on subjects drawn from various sources, from local legend to chivalric epic to historical chronicle.

Sillari moved to Reggio Emilia in 1993 in order to attend the University of Parma. After graduating in 2001 with a

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Citation: Cavallo, Jo Ann. "Luca Sillari". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 November 2018 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14294, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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