Fantastico Mediterraneo, a video of a one-hour panel on Italian Sword & Sorcery. In Italian, but it may interest those looking for a fanzine article and who are willing to translate.

Aren’t they nice and smart? Good to see they still do things properly in Italy, and don’t look like tramps.

Evidently they also still know how to do fine typography and design, even for a flyer for an evening talk — this is also in Italy, the event being Aperitivo filosofico: Machen, Merritt, Mito, Immaginario, 12th March 2019.

“Among the most important precursors of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Abraham Merritt and Arthur Machen were among those who made the fantastic into a real vision of the world, combining modernity with ancient suggestions drawn from myths and legends. If beings of Gaelic mythology and Mesopotamian divinities, their message is basically the same, and testifies to the irruption in the modernity of ancestral forces, awakened from their sleep of millenia. We talk about this with Giuseppe Aguanno, director of the series “I Tre Sedili Deserti” (the Palindromo) and translator of Merritt, and with Andrea Scarabelli, author of the afterword to “Il Vascello di Ishtar” by Merritt.”