The Outsider

Leading men and women from the worlds of journalism, theatre, literature and poetry tell their stories and offer us their insight into Bologna.
Stories of those who passed through the shadow of its porticoes, those who left, those who stayed. Stories of love, of silliness, of the past, of the future, of a city that remains in the heart.
Hosted by Edoardo d'Elia and Giacomo Venezia, authors of the La Merenda podcast

• 6.00 pm — Surprise guest: a chat with the protagonists of the Bologna Portici Festival.
  
  
• 7.00 pm — The Outsider
  With Stefano Bartezzaghi
  Semiologist, puzzle enthusiast and essayist, son of “Il Bartezzaghi” of our most arduous challenges in Settimana Enigmistica magazine, he is among the foremost scholars on word games, humour and creativity. At the age of 9 he began to collaborate with all the major Italian puzzle magazines as an author and solver of games. At 19 he escaped from his Milan home to come and study at DAMS, where he graduated with a thesis in semiotics under professor Umberto Eco.
  He both loved and hated Bologna. He made an anagram of the Garisenda tower and used it to divine its destiny: he will reveal this and other mysteries to us.