Zizola Archives - Page 3 of 3

Return to Sender: The Rejected Brides of Fairy Tales

Lately, I have been reading a lot of Italian fairy tales as a kind of inspiration and preparation for the new novel I am working on, a companion to The Innamorati. As the plot is a renaissance road trip with a young woman in search of herself and her trickster companion (to create a little drama along […]

The Horn and The Fig, Neapolitian Gestures

3 Comments / Authors, History, Illustrators, Performance, Research Notes, The Innamorati, Zizola / Midori

Part of the pleasure of doing research for a new novel is discovering little gems of social history, such as this terrific work of the mid 19th century, "Gestural Expression of the Ancients in the light of Neapolitan Gesturing" by Andrea de Jorio. De Jorio, a cleric and a Canon of the Cathedral of Naples, was

The Horn and The Fig, Neapolitian Gestures Read More »