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‘The Prince of Palagonia’ by Giovanni Macchia: an eccentric fascinated by deformation

Summary by El Pais
“The food of fantasy is not the beautiful, but the monstrous,” says Giovanni Macchia (Triani, 1912-Rome, 2001), at the beginning of his study of that strange prince, contemporary of Casanova and the Marquis of Sade, a statement that reminds us of Rilke’s well-known verse about the horror that all beauty entails. The “continuing conviviality with the deformed” of the Sicilian aristocrat who leaves Palermo and recreates in a village in the town of…
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