Cervia - The Beach Loves Books and Ferragosto with Authors

July 3rd
Torre San Michele
MARINO BARTOLETTI  
He is one of Italy's most renowned journalists, one of the public's best-loved television figures, and a great music expert.
Caro Lucio ti scrivo (Gallucci)
The story of his relationship with Lucio Dalla, told through previously unpublished episodes and anecdotes. A strong, decades-long bond defined by music, featuring 25 letters, a great friendship, and a few secrets.

Moderated by journalist Beppe Boni.

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Saturday, July 4th
Torre San Michele
Serata Il Resto del Carlino
CLAUDIO CUMANI
A professional journalist and theatre critic from Bologna, he is the long-standing head of the Entertainment and Culture editorial staff at Il Resto del Carlino.
Ultima pagina, Volevo fare il giornalista (Pendragon)
Bologna, 1980. When he is hired in the provincial office of a local newspaper, "Milordino" is twenty-five years old, holds a university degree, has a girlfriend he does not love, and a misplaced dream: to become a journalist.

Moderated by journalist Beppe Boni.

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Monday, July 6th
Piazza Garibaldi
SIGFRIDO RANUCCI 
Journalist, author, and television presenter, he is one of the most authoritative voices in Italian investigative journalism. Over the course of his career, he has led landmark investigations into illicit waste trafficking, organized crime, and unconventional weapons.
Navigare senza paura (Salani)
Experimenting with choices, mistakes, and consequences in a safe environment. This book encourages dialogue between parents, teachers, and young people, providing a compass for understanding the risks and emotions of the online world.

Moderated by journalist and writer Matteo Cavezzali.

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Tuesday, July 7th
Piazzetta Pisacane
ALFONSO ZACCARIA 
A well-known hematologist, he spent 20 years at the Serragnoli Institute of Hematology in Bologna and 20 years as Head of Hematology at the Ravenna Hospital. He is the founder and president of the Ravenna section of AIL (Italian Association against Leukemia).
Muri di idee (ediz. Del Girasole)
By observing the various layers of paint, cracks, and peeling surfaces, it is possible to glimpse true works of abstract art or recognizable figures within the walls of historic town centers.

Moderated by journalist Deborah Dirani.

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Thursday, July 9th
Piazza Garibaldi
STEFANO MASSINI
Scrivere e raccontare il presente 
A talk in conversation with Matteo Cavezzali, journalist and writer.

• Lo Zar (Einaudi)
  A theatrical text that distills and reconstructs real elements, presented in their rigid logic, to describe a political character who serves as an archetype for many recent forms of absolute power.
  
  
• Donald. Storia molto più che leggendaria di un Golden Man (Einaudi)
  Trump before Trump, as told by the only Italian writer to have won a Tony Award. This book is the story of the ten minutes of a man who, ever since he became self-aware, has desired only one thing: dominion.

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Monday, July 13th
Rotonda Primo Maggio
SANTINA COSETTA 
Writer and teacher. Her career spans diverse worlds: archaeological fieldwork, the restoration of ancient paper materials, graphic design, and painting.
Soltanto il giorno (Giunti)
The life of Marianna, born unwanted in late 19th-century Sicily. Entrusted to Lisetta, a healer, she learns the secrets of herbs and healing before going to work at the Irminio farm. There, she discovers redemption, love, and the difficult art of desiring for herself.

Moderated by Paola Ariosi, Radio Social Coast.

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Tuesday, July 14th
Torre San Michele
MARILÙ OLIVA
Writer, essayist, and teacher. In her novels, she combines the noir and thriller genres with a rewriting of classical myths from a female perspective.
Via delle streghe (Solferino)
Four ordinary neighbors living in an alley in the center of Bologna meet in the evening in a living room for cake, herbal tea, and chats. Except those gatherings are more akin to modern-day covens, where they plot what they call "black magic." Meaning murders: vengeance for brutal femicides whose perpetrators got away with it, slipping through the cracks of the law.

Moderated by journalist and writer Matteo Cavezzali.

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Wednesday, July 15th
Palace hotel
PREMIO TALENTI ITALIANI, seconda edizione
A tribute to the legendary Panini stickers that have accompanied generations of children through completed albums, memorable trades, and dreams of sporting champions. Small images that have become part of our collective memory, a symbol of sporting passion, friendship, and Italian popular culture.

Moderated by journalist and founder of the Award, Beppe Boni.

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Thursday, July 16th
Piazza Garibaldi
CARLO CALENDA 
Italian politician and business executive, Senator of the Republic in the 19th legislature, and Secretary of Azione, a party he primarily founded in 2019. He served as Minister of Economic Development in the Renzi and Gentiloni governments.
Difendere la libertà. L’ora dell’Europa (Piemme)
A lucid and incisive analysis of the "decline of the West" as we have known it, the ongoing geopolitical and technological transformations, the predatory and oligarchic capitalism of the elites, and the anthropological mutations that Trump, Putin, and Xi are imposing on reality; a political manifesto for Europe and its long-awaited construction as a strong, self-sufficient union, including from a military perspective.

Guest speaker: Elisabetta Gualmini, Italian politician and political scientist, Full Professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna.

Moderated by journalist Ilaria Bedeschi.

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Tuesday, July 21st
Torre San Michele
CONCITA DE GREGORIO in dialogo con MICHELE DE PASCALE 
Italian journalist, writer, television presenter, and commentator. A long-time writer for La Repubblica, she was the first woman to edit the daily newspaper l’Unità.
La cura (Einaudi)
Touching and light, intimate and full of humanity, this book tells how taking care of others is the only way to take care of oneself. Because even amidst fragility and brokenness, life never ceases to enchant us and reveal new worlds to us.

Conduce Ilaria Bedeschi, giornalista

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Thursday, July 23rd
Torre San Michele
DAVIDE GIACALONE
Essayist, journalist, and commentator. He is the author of numerous articles, studies, and books. He is a columnist for RTL 102.5 and editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper La Ragione.
Unità, libertà, repubblica. L’Italia fatta dalle minoranze (Rubettino)
A call to remembrance owed to many protagonists, most of whom are now present more in street names than in the culture of those who today enjoy the extraordinary fruits of their ideas and actions. We do not (only) need a rhetorical appeal not to forget: we need an alarmed warning not to lose what we are not aware of.

Moderated by journalist Ilaria Bedeschi.

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Friday, July 24th
MarePineta Milano Marittima
7:00 PM
STEFANIA AUCI 
Writer and support teacher. Her novel I leoni di Sicilia arrived in Italy after becoming a massive success in the United States, France, the Netherlands, and Spain. A literary phenomenon in Italy in 2019, it quickly climbed the bestseller charts in our country.

L’alba dei Leoni (Editrice Nord)
The new, unmissable chapter of the saga that has captivated readers in Italy and around the world. 1772. Bagnara Calabra is a handful of earth stolen from the mountains, squeezed between rocks and the sea. Dark, compact, closed. But this is the way it is, and it is the home of the Florio family. Nothing is easy for them; everything must be defended with effort and determination.

Moderated by Brunella Garavini, Malatestiana Library of Cesena.

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Monday, July 27th
Palace hotel
SALOTTO Simona Ventura e Giovanni Terzi 
Guest: GABRIELE PARPIGLIA, journalist, author, TV series producer, and writer.
Dalla discoteca si esce senza voce, non senza vita. Corinaldo: una strage senza risposte (Mursia)
December 8th, 2018. A night of celebration turns into a nightmare of smoke and crushing crowds. Six dead, hundreds injured, and a question that still cries out for justice: how could this happen? Parpiglia reconstructs the anatomy of the Corinaldo tragedy, giving a voice to those who remain, to those who fight so as not to forget, and to those who demand that this line drawn in blood never be crossed again.

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Tuesday, July 28th
Torre San Michele
Double Presentation

• MARCO TRABUCCHI
  Specialist in psychiatry and former Full Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. A scientific communicator and lecturer in the field of geriatrics.
  Invecchiare non fa paura (SanPaolo)
  Active and peaceful aging is based on the balance between medical care and individual responsibility. Aging well is not an illusion if one is founded on the conviction that nothing is given without daily commitment.

• ALBERTO CASSANI
  A public administration employee involved in cultural management and narrative writing.
  Adrenalina (Baldini+Castoldi)
  A communications expert, recovering from a divorce, leads a dull life in Rome until a night with the mysterious Vanessa changes everything. In the morning, she disappears, and he receives an anonymous message with a devastating accusation.

  Moderated by journalist Ilaria Bedeschi.

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Wednesday, July 29th
Palace hotel
SALOTTO Simona Ventura e Giovanni Terzi 

• VINCENZO SCHETTINI, professor, physicist, musician, bestselling author, and television presenter.
  La vita che ci piace. Come la fisica può spiegarci la vita (Mondadori)
  The uncertainty of human feelings, explored through fundamental concepts of physics—vacuum, energy, pressure, magnetism, inertia, force, and balance—to show us that the laws governing the universe can be key to better understanding ourselves. A deep and moving narrative, where science and emotions blend in a perfect fit.
  
  
• FEDERICO RUFFO, investigative journalist, writer, author, and radio and television presenter.
  Mare nero. Storia criminale di Ostia (RaiLibri)
  The underworld, drug trafficking, and the political and economic interests that have filled the crime pages for the last thirty years flow before the reader’s eyes like lived experiences.

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Sunday, August 2nd
Tagliata Pro Loco Riviera dei Pini
FULVIA SISTI
Italian journalist, essayist, and television author. Known primarily for her long career at RAI, which began in the 1980s.
Protagoniste della prima pagina (TraccePerLaMeta )
Protagoniste della prima pagina (TraccePerLaMeta) An essay edited by journalist Fulvia Sisti that explores the forgotten role of five pioneers of Italian journalism who revolutionized the profession in a male-dominated sector.

Moderated by journalist Giorgio Tonelli.

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Monday, August 3rd
Terrazza Hotel Genzianella
FABRIZIO BINACCHI 
RAI journalist. He has hosted Tg1, Linea Verde, and Italia Agricoltura, and has served as head of the regional news departments (Tg regionali) for Lombardy, Lazio, and Emilia-Romagna. He has directed the RAI regional headquarters in Trieste, Trento, Milan, and Bologna.
Sorprese in tv (Il Rio)
From his first day at Tg1 to his time directing RAI Emilia-Romagna, via Linea Verde and the Milan production center with its over one thousand employees: forty years in television during which Fabrizio Binacchi, originally from Suzzara (Mantua), has met people and public figures, and organized broadcasts and events.

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Tuesday, August 4th
Torre San Michele
ENRICO FRANCESCHINI 
Journalist and writer, he has been a foreign correspondent for La Repubblica for over thirty years, covering New York, Washington, Moscow, Jerusalem, and currently London.
Arrivederci Londra (Baldini+Castoldi)
They are twelve European journalists: an Italian, a Frenchman, a Spaniard, a German woman, an Austrian woman, a Dane, and so on, each a prisoner of national stereotypes—much like in certain politically incorrect jokes—yet united by their love for London, where they have lived and worked for years.

Moderated by journalist Ilaria Bedeschi.

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Wednesday, August 5th
Torre San Michele
MATTEO CAVEZZALI
Writer, playwright, podcast creator, and artistic director of the ScrittuRa Festival cultural event.
I fratelli meraviglia (Mondadori)
Alfredo and Franco grow up in the 1930s in a Romagna region that smells of the countryside and the sea. They are almost oblivious to the world they find themselves living in—amidst fascist marches, an authoritarian school system, and the distant echoes of dark threats—wrapped in days marked by games, bread with jam, and the voice of a mother urging the family to stay united: "A single branch will break, but all together, we will not."

Moderated by journalist Ilaria Bedeschi.

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Thursday, August 6th
Torre San Michele
CHIARA MOSCARDELLI
Born in Rome, after living in Milan for many years, she has recently moved to Romagna. Her debut novel, Volevo essere una gatta morta, was a great success and quickly became a cult book.
Teresa papavero e le verità nascoste (Giunti)
A new chapter in the bestselling saga featuring Teresa Papavero, a protagonist who has captivated thousands of readers. In this compelling investigation, where nothing is as it seems, the protagonist must come to terms with a past that spares no one—neither victims nor executioners.

Moderated by writer Stefano Bon.

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Saturday, August 8th 
Rotonda Primo Maggio
ANDREW FABER 
Writer and poet. He is one of the most followed voices on social media and in the contemporary literary scene. He defines himself as a "breeder of poems"—which he considers therapeutic—and a "farmer of emotions."
PAS. Persone Altamente Speciali (InternoPoesia)
A work that opens like a breath, a song dedicated to those who possess the rare art of "feeling everything." It is the silent tale of souls who move through the world, ready to capture every thrill, every shudder, and every delicate nuance of life.

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Sunday, August 9th
Torre San Michele
MASSIMO POLIDORO 
Writer, scientific communicator, and university lecturer. He co-founded CICAP (Comitato Italiano per il Controllo delle Affermazioni sulle Pseudoscienze – Italian Committee for the Investigation of Claims of Pseudoscience) with Piero Angela.
Il mistero delle origini dell’uomo (Feltrinelli)
A fascinating journey into the origins of humankind, weaving together myth, science, and major discoveries. From the first narratives about the beginning of life to the Darwinian revolution, and up to the most recent research on ancient DNA, dating methods, climate, and the history of the Earth.

Moderated by journalist and writer Matteo Cavezzali.

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Tuesday, August 11th
Torre San Michele

• SIMONA VENTURA
  One of the most well-known presenters on Italian television, famous for her energetic and self-deprecating style.
  Codice ventura (Sperling & Kupfer)
  A book as unexpected as it is surprising! A journey through memory, a dive into the emotions of the magical eighties and nineties, to understand where we started from and where we want to go.
  
  
• GIOVANNI TERZI
  A graduate in architecture, he is a journalist, writer, and radio/TV host.
  L’ultimo sguardo di Yara. Una storia italiana (Piemme)
  A book as unexpected as it is surprising! A journey through memory, a dive into the emotions of the magical eighties and nineties, to understand where we started from and where we want to go.
  
  
• ELISA DEL MESE
  Rotonda Primo Maggio
  Author and creative consultant. For many years, she was a collaborator for RAI radio and television programs.
  Diffidare delle cucine pulite. Storia di un grande amore (Bompiani)
  Narrative as the most powerful lens for life, determined to find useful explanations for the love of the two protagonists, up to an intuition as sweet as a long-awaited caress: if we know how to keep disappointment out, great loves are forever.
  
  

  Moderated by writer Stefano Bon.

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Saturday, August 15th 
Grand Finale for the 34th edition of "Ferragosto con gli autori"
"Sbarco degli Autori"
The series of meetings with authors comes to a close; illustrious and famous figures will conclude the 2026 edition.