LETTERATURE Festival Internazionale di Roma 2025 - Program for the 8 July

Now in its 24th edition, LETTERATURE Festival Internazionale di Roma is a historic Roman event featuring the most important literary voices of recent years. The evenings of 8, 9, 11, 13, 15 and 16 July will take place in the evocative setting of the Stadio Palatino, inside the Parco archeologico del Colosseo. The final stage of the festival, on 19 July, is instead scheduled at the Idroscalo di Ostia in Piazza dei Piroscafi, in collaboration with the Puntasacra Film Fest.

The festival will open on 8 July at 9 p.m. (entrance at 8.30 p.m.) with readings by Mariangela Gualtieri, László Krasznahorkai, Ali Smith and Paolo Nori. Mariangela Gualtieri will read La strada per tornare; László Krasznahorkai will read Állni a bizottság ellőtt - Standing before the commission (2025); Ali Smith will read Home from home and Paolo Nori will read Caracalla.

The evening’s musical contributions are by Mokadelic, a post-rock/psychedelic band active since the early 2000s, born of the encounter between the four original members Alessio Mecozzi, Cristian Marras, Alberto Broccatelli and Maurizio Mazzenga, who were later joined by Luca Novelli.