Thursday 29 May 2025 (21pm), at Collegio Nuovo, we will talk about Fabrizio De André with a reinterpretation of his songbook by Paul Jachia, professor of Semiotics and history of Italian song (course promoted by the College and accredited by the University of Pavia) and author of several volumes, including monographs, dedicated to artists such as Battiato, De André, Dalla, Gaber and Vecchioni.
In the latest volume, which follows the work written with Fabio Barbero The Sacred in Italian Song. From Aqaba to Tozeur with clear references to De André and Battiato, Jachia focuses on those songs by the Genoese singer-songwriter whose lyrics almost seem to compose «an apocryphal and popular Gospel […] without the need for orthodoxy or fidelity to a Church». According to Jachia, De André has conducted, in thirty years of artistic career, a meditation on the message and the figure of Jesus Christ: hence the title chosen for his essay (De André and his Christ. From “Immeasurable Prayer” to “Prayer in January”), which, as he curiously declares on the back cover of the book just published by Ancora, is the fruit of half a century of his «attentive and perplexed listening».
With Paolo Jachia he returns to the New Francis Paracchini – he spoke at a meeting on Lucio Dalla –, director of “L'isola che non c'era”, a portal of live reports, interviews and reviews dedicated to the “new singer-songwriter”, but also a network that deals with the artistic direction of musical events.
The meeting is held in person (Aula Magna of the Collegio Nuovo, v. Abbiategrasso 404, Pavia) and remotely. Registration is mandatory by May 28th for in-person participation; by May 29th, 18.30 pm for those who wish to connect remotely. The event is also broadcast live on Facebook on @collegionuovopavia.
The initiative falls within the recognized training activities, subject to confirmation by the individual interested College member of the CCUM, and is recognized by the IUSS as an extra-scope training activity of the ordinary courses.
