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Manlio Sgalambro

Manlio Sgalambro

Fun club

Accetta il consiglio

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Luca Volpatti

Fleur Jaeggy

Philosophy and Academic production

Manlio Sgalambro was born in Lentini in 1924.

In 1959 he published Crepuscolo e notte.

In the 60s he wrote essays and articles for magazine Tempo presente, directed by Ignazio Silone and Nicola Chiaromonte.

In 1982 he published La morte del sole (Adelphi, Milano), translated into German in 1988.

In 1987 he published Il trattato dell'empiet... (Adelphi, Milano), Del metodo ipocondriaco (Il Girasole Edizioni, Valverde), Anatol (Adelphi, Milano 1990), Del pensare breve (Adelphi, Milano 1991), Dialogo teologico (Adelphi, Milano 1993), Contro la musica (De Martinis e C. 1994), Dell'indifferenza in materia di società (Adelphi, Milano 1994), Teoria della canzone (Bompiani, Milano 1997).

In 1998 he published Nietzsche (Frammenti di una biografia per versi e voce) (Bompiani, Milano 1998) and in 1999 Trattato dell'età (Adelphi).

His latest book is Nell'antro del filosofo (Edizioni Prova d'Autore, Catania 2002).

Music and partnership with Franco Battiato

In 1994, Manlio Sgalambro started a musical partnership with Franco Battiato, and wrote texts for the drama Il Cavaliere dell’Intelletto, dedicated to Frederick II. He wrote also lyrics for L'ombrello e la macchina da cucire (1995), L'imboscata (1996), Gommalacca (1998) and Medievale and Invito al viaggio, for Fleurs.

Texts for Campi Magnetici (2000) and Ferro Battuto (2001) are his latest works with Battiato. Sony Music published La Mer, single from Campi Magnetici.

His debut cd is FUN CLUB released on November 2001.

During Battiato summer tour 2002, Sgalambro performed Accetta il Consiglio, re-arranging the original song.