Happy birthday
Virginia Woolf

 

 

PORTRAITS OF ETTORE VIOLA

Rome, January 25, 2022

 

 

“In idleness, in dreams, the submerged truth sometimes comes to the surface”

Virginia Woolf would be 136 today, because she was born on January 25, 1882 in London. She was one of the greatest writers in history, famous throughout the world for her modern way of writing and for her political activism.

Progressive, innovative, and feminist Virginia Woolf forever changed the way of writing of the last century, and probably those to come as well.

Here it is in an illustration by Ettore Viola

 

Enrico Berlinguer: the centenary of his birth

Enrico Berlinguer, secretary of the PCI from 1972 to 1984 would have turned one hundred today (he was born in Sassari on 25 May 1922). Ettore Viola remembers him with two portraits for the Manifesto and for the Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno.

Darwin Day

The 213rd birthday party of the father of the theory of evolution

Published today unpublished by Pier Paolo Posolini

On the occasion of the centenary of Pier Paolo Pasolini, the illustration by Ettore Viola