Buchmesse, in the grand finale meeting with Alessandra Necci and Stefania Auci

Buchmesse, grand finale in Frankfurt. Also among the eighty-eight Italian authors Alessandra Necci and Stefania Aucitoday protagonists of the meeting on ‘Power of Queens and Lions’moderated by Anna Vollmer of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in the Arena of the Italian Pavilion. The two authors explore the complex intertwining of power, family and history.

On the other hand, history is often a question of power and dynasties. Auci and Necci know this well, as in their novels they have often addressed this theme from multiple points of view: from the entrepreneurial and industrial one (the Florio saga, the “Lions of Sicily”, by Stefania Auci) to the aristocratic and monarchical one ( the biographies dedicated by Alessandra Necci to figures such as Catherine de’ Medici, the “Sun King” Louis XIV of Bourbon, the Habsburgs Maria Teresa and Marie Antoinette). Between reality and fiction, historical portrait and social analysis, command and family dynamics.

Writer and director of the Estensi Galleries, Alessandra Necci underlines to Messaggero that “culture and books must be unifying, they belong to everyone, they conflict with the idea of ​​a monopoly”. Furthermore, regarding today’s scheduled event and in direct relation with the narrative and perception of women over time, Necci states: “History is always a question of power, as demonstrated by the history of epochal queens such as Caterina de’ Medici, Maria Teresa and Maria Antonietta, women capable of changing world history. In their time there was certainly no social lift”, continues Necci, who was recently awarded the 2024 Pio Alferano Award.