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Maria ci ricevette all’imbarcadero,
fasciata da una tunica color alga.
Sembrava l’Hera di Samo, solo più
morbida. Ci avvicinò presto il marito,
chiamato “Il Console”, vestito di un
festoso Kikoi. Due camerieri in livrea
ci offrirono ‘sardele’, sardine in
gradese, e vino Tocai, freschissimo.
“Che accoglienza”. Il pensiero andò
subito a un’altra Maria, la Callas,
che incontra per la prima volta Pier
Paolo Pasolini. Era il 1969, la Divina
fu Medea e cominciò lì il loro viaggio
d’affetto, diviso solo da insistenti
zanzare.
Maria met us at the jetty, wrapped
in a seaweed-green robe.
She looked like Hera of Samos, only
softer. Her husband, known as the
“The Consul”, came towards us dressed
in a brightly coloured Kikoi.
Two waiters in livery offered us
‘sardele’, the Gradese name for
sardines, and chilled Tocai wine.
“What a welcome”. My thoughts went
immediately to another Maria, Maria
Callas, when she met Pier Paolo
Pasolini for the first time.
It was 1969, when La Divina played
Medea and the two began their journey
of friendship and affection, shared
only by the pesky mosquitoes.
ripple chair
design Ron Arad
2004
RC050
choco brown / malachite green /
carbon black
