Everything is ready for the 2026 edition of Incontri d'Autore, the review organized by the Municipality of Lavarone and the Sigmund Freud Municipal Library of Lavarone, which with its literary events will bring life and color to the summer afternoons of Alpe Cimbra. With a rich program of afternoon appointments, scheduled for 5:15 p.m. – but with some exceptions – from July 11 to September 3, the meetings will take place at the famous holiday spot of Sigmund Freud.
The first seasonal appointment is set for Saturday, July 11 with Caterina Manfrini, who will open the 2026 edition of Incontri d'Autore presenting Sette volte bosco (Neri Pozza), a tale that intertwines nature, memory, and identity. Following her, on Saturday, July 18, journalist Giorgio Zanchini will lead the audience in a reflection on one of the most dramatic episodes of contemporary history with Lockerbie (Laterza).
Thursday, July 23 will feature Tiziana Ferrario, who will present Anna K. The novel of the extraordinary life of Anna Kuliscioff (Edizioni Fuoriscena), dedicated to one of the most significant female figures in Italian history, while on Saturday, July 25, Enzo Iacchetti will take the stage with 25 Minutes of Happiness (Never Losing Melancholy) (Bompiani), a book that alternates irony, reflection, and life stories.
July will conclude with two appointments dedicated to fiction and dissemination: on Tuesday, July 28, it will be the turn of Riccardo Bertoldi, author of It All Begins When You Stop Waiting (Rizzoli), while on Thursday, July 30, the popularizer and professor Nello Cristianini will present Forma mentis. The race to decode the thoughts of machines (il Mulino), a journey through artificial intelligence, language, and the future.
Opening the month of August will be Francesco Vidotto, who will be the protagonist of the meeting on Saturday, August 1 with the novel The Fir and the Birch. A story of love and trees (Bompiani). Sunday, August 2 will feature Piero Badaloni, who will recount his long professional experience through The RAI I've Lived. Diary of a (Tele)Commentator (Le Piccole Pagine).
The following week will see three events: on Wednesday, August 5, Raffaella Calgaro will present We Are No Longer Afraid. Stories of Women and Mountains (Marcianum Press), on Thursday, August 6 Giacomo Panozzo will accompany the audience through an original journey of history and current events with Why Will It Happen Yesterday? Understanding the Present through the Previous Episodes of History (Salani), while on Saturday, August 8 Marco Pozza will offer a reflection on the everyday and spirituality through The Honey and the Onions (San Paolo Edizioni).
The week of Ferragosto will open on Wednesday, August 12 with Cristina Tomasi, who will present The Metabolism Revolution (Vallardi), dedicated to health and prevention issues. Friday, August 14 will feature the climber Tamara Lunger, who will be the protagonist of the meeting with A Woman Who Walks with the Wind. Me and Tùje: Three Months on Foot in the Mongolian Steppe (Rizzoli), an intense travelogue and discovery.
Tuesday, August 18 journalist Sigfrido Ranucci will bring to Lavarone The Return of the Caste (Bompiani), a volume dedicated to current affairs and journalistic investigation. Thursday, August 20 Gianluca Ruggieri will guide the audience in discovering the great contemporary energy challenges with The Energies of the World. Fossil, Nuclear, Renewable: What We Need to Know (Laterza).
The last events of the review will feature Catena Fiorello Galeano, who on Saturday, August 22 will present the novel Serenata Salentina (Rizzoli), and Maurizio De Giovanni, guest on Sunday, August 23 with The Watchmaker's Time (Feltrinelli), the new chapter of his acclaimed narrative production.
The review will continue on Saturday, August 29 with Massimo Gaggi and Tamara Jadrejcic, authors of America Inside. Stories, Faces, Conflicts of a Country on the Edge (Laterza), an analysis dedicated to contemporary United States.
Closing the 2026 edition of Incontri d'Autore will be Thursday, September 3, Mariapia Veladiano, who will present God of Dust (Guanda), concluding a summer of books, dialogues, and reflections that will once again make Lavarone a point of reference for lovers of reading and meeting authors.
Incontri d’Autore is the book review that, every summer since the 1990s, is held as LavaronEstate, the lake, a book, proposing its initiatives in the rich panorama of events that enliven the summer season on Alpe Cimbra. An opportunity for listening and participation, dialogue, and deepening is increasingly affirming itself as a place to know, to dialogue with authors, meeting their voices and perspectives, to multiply knowledge, think, and, why not, rethink.
Indeed, over the years, many prominent names in journalism and politics, culture, and contemporary Italian narrative have taken to the Lavaronese stage during the many editions at the Gionghi Congress Center, which has been a place to talk about books, literature, and current affairs. Dialoguing with an engaged and involved audience in discussions capable of transforming each meeting into a true literary happening.
Among the authors we recall the participation of Enzo Biagi, Giovanni Floris, Marco Travaglio, Tony Capuozzo, Gherardo Colombo, Gianni Vattimo, Stefano Bollani, Antonio Caprarica, Gianantonio Stella, Natalino Balasso, Mauro Corona, Erri De Luca, Flavio Caroli, Giulio Giorello, Andrea Vitali, Corrado Passera, Gianluca Nicoletti, Sveva Casati Modignani, Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Antonia Arslan, Antonio Di Bella, Paolo Rumiz, Paolo Mieli, Gianna Schelotto, Paolo Crepet, Simone Moro, Nives Meroi, Beppe Severgnini, Ferruccio De Bortoli, Carlo Cottarelli, Andrea Purgatori, Alan Friedman, Serena Bortone, Enrico Galiano, Sigfrido Ranucci, and Antonella Viola.
Unable to attend, for natural reasons, but deserving of mention is Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis and a central figure of the twentieth century, who spent long and pleasant summer vacations in Lavarone for four seasons. Complicities include the sweetness of the landscape, the restful woods, the well-being derived from walks and swims in the clear waters of the lake, but also the exceptional tranquility of the place that allowed him to meditate, study, write, and exchange opinions with students and colleagues visiting.
The illustrious character lends his name to the Municipal Library, which, together with the Municipality of Lavarone, organizes and promotes Incontri d’Autore, an initiative that has benefited for several years from the patronage of the Office for the Trentino Library System and Cultural Participation and from the contribution of the Trentino Alto Adige Region, and collaborates with Crushsite, the regional portal of culture, art, and entertainment, as the media partner of the event. Many collaborations with local associations and entities, from APT Alpe Cimbra to the Vallagarina Rural Bank, from the Magnificent Community of Cimbrian Highlands to the Breath of Trees, from the Avez del Prinzep Committee to Forte Belvedere, from the Giunti bookstore in Asiago to the Little Library of Levico, to the Gradiva Study Center.
PROGRAM:
July 11 - Lavarone Gionghi Congress Center, 5:15 p.m.
Caterina Manfrini, Sette volte bosco (Neri Pozza)
July 18 Lavarone Gionghi Congress Center, 5:15 p.m.
Giorgio Zanchini, Lockerbie (Laterza)
July 23 Lavarone Gionghi Congress Center, 5:15 p.m.
Tiziana Ferrario, Anna K. Il romanzo della straordinaria vita di Anna Kuliscioff (Edizioni Fuoriscena)
July 25 Lavarone Gionghi Congress Center, 5:15 p.m.
Enzo Iacchetti, 25 Minutes of Happiness (Never Losing Melancholy) (Bompiani)
July 28 Lavarone Gionghi Congress Center, 5:15 p.m.
Riccardo Bertoldi, It All Begins When You Stop Waiting (Rizzoli)
July 30 Lavarone Gionghi Congress Center, 5:15 p.m.
Nello Cristianini, Forma mentis. The race to decode the thoughts of machines (il Mulino)
August 1 Lavarone Gionghi Congress Center, 5:15 p.m.
Francesco Vidotto, The Fir and the Birch. A story of love and trees (Bompiani)
August 2 Lavarone Gionghi Congress Center, 5:15 p.m.
Piero Badaloni, The RAI I've Lived. Diary of a (Tele)Commentator (Le Piccole Pagine)
August 5 Lavarone Gionghi Congress Center, 5:15 p.m.
Raffaella Calgaro, We Are No Longer Afraid. Stories of Women and Mountains (Marcianum Press)
August 6 Lavarone Gionghi Congress Center, 5:15 p.m.
Giacomo Panozzo, Why Will It Happen Yesterday? Understanding the Present through the Previous Episodes of History (Salani)
August 8 Lavarone Gionghi Congress Center, 5:15 p.m.
Marco Pozza, The Honey and the Onions (San Paolo Edizioni)
August 12 Lavarone Gionghi Congress Center, 5:15 p.m.
Cristina Tomasi, The Metabolism Revolution. The metabolic protocol against inflammation and insulin resistance to prevent disease, slow aging, and lose weight (Vallardi)
August 14 Lavarone Gionghi Congress Center, 5:15 p.m.
Tamara Lunger, A Woman Who Walks with the Wind. Me and Tùje: Three Months on Foot in the Mongolian Steppe (Rizzoli)
August 18 Lavarone Gionghi Congress Center, 5:15 p.m.
Sigfrido Ranucci, The Return of the Caste (Bompiani)
August 20 Lavarone Gionghi Congress Center, 5:15 p.m.
Gianluca Ruggieri, The Energies of the World. Fossil, Nuclear, Renewable: What We Need to Know (Laterza)
August 22 Lavarone Gionghi Congress Center, 5:15 p.m.
Catena Fiorello Galeano, Serenata Salentina (Rizzoli)
August 23 Lavarone Gionghi Congress Center, 5:15 p.m.
Maurizio De Giovanni, The Watchmaker's Time (Feltrinelli)
August 29
Massimo Gaggi and Tamara Jadrejcic, America Inside. Stories, Faces, Conflicts of a Country on the Edge (Laterza)
September 3
Mariapia Veladiano, God of Dust (Guanda)
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