IF # 26 - Musica e Letteratura/Music and Literature

In celebration of the XIX edition of The Week of Italian Language in the World, and of Litquake Literary Festival, Italian Frequency presents musicians whose songs are inspired by literary works. 

Echoes of Greek myths, Renaissance ballads, folk tales, French poetry, and clear references to works by Baudelaire, Collodi, Homer, Mallarmé, Montale, Conrad, Flaubert, etc....


  • 12:06pm L'Isola che non c'è by Edoardo Bennato on Sono solo canzonette (Ref. J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan )
  • 12:09pm Il gatto e la volpe by Edoardo Bennato on Burattino senza fili (Ref. C. Collodi, Pinocchio )
  • 12:09pm La storia by Francesco De Gregori on Scacchi e tarocchi (Ref. E. Montale, La storia and E. Morante, La storia )
  • 12:12pm Volta la carta by Fabrizio De André on Rimini (Ref. italian nursery rhymes )
  • 12:19pm S'i' fosse foco by Fabrizio De André on Volume 3 (Ref. Cecco Angiolieri, S'i' fosse foco)
  • 12:22pm Ballo in fa diesis minore by Angelo Branduardi on Camminando camminando (Ref. Italian Dance Macabre ballads)
  • 12:23pm Polpo d'amore by Vinicio Capossela & Calexico on Marinai, profeti, e balene (Ref. Homer, The Odyssey)
  • 12:32pm Scirocco by Francesco Guccini on Signora Bovary (Ref. G. Flaubert, Madame Bovary)
  • 12:36pm L'elemosina by Max Gazzè on L'elemosina (Ref. S. Mallarmé, The Beggar)
  • 12:38pm L'amore e la spina by Ornella Vanoni on La voglia, la pazzia, l'inconscienza, l'allegria (Ref. V. de Moraes, Velho e a Flor)
  • 12:41pm Elettra by Carmen Consoli on Elettra (Ref. Euripedes, Electra)
  • 12:43pm La linea d'ombra by Jovanotti on Lorenzo 1997 - L'albero (Ref. J. Conrad, The Shadow Line)
  • 12:50pm Invito al viaggio by Franco Battiato on Fleurs (Ref. C. Baudelaire, Invitation to Voyage)
  • 12:55pm Madeleine by Paolo Conte on Live in Caracalla (Ref. M. Proust, In Search of Lost Time)
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