A conversation with: Maria Selene Clemente, Gianluca Furnari and Sentituoni
Moderated by: Irene Panzani
The word trama—meaning both weave and plot—will be explored through poetry, music, journalism, and digital languages. When words, intertwined like threads, make stories and worlds visible. When they recount reality or reinvent it. When they shape imaginaries, challenge the present, and open up new ways of seeing what surrounds us.
Moving between storytelling, imagination, and contemporary technologies, this conversation reflects on the power of narratives to create connections, generate meaning, and transform the way we read and understand the world.
Guests
Maria Selene Clemente (Cagliari, 1991) is a photographer and professional journalist. In 2017, she graduated with highest honors in International Studies and Political Institutions of the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region from the University of Turin. Her professional experience includes nearly six years in Southwest Asia, first as a field researcher in Lebanon (2015–16), and later as a humanitarian worker in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (2017–22). In 2022, she studied photography at Fondazione Studio Marangoni and co-founded the Clemente-Pardini duo in Pietrasanta. From April to June 2024, she completed part of her journalism internship at the weekly magazine Internazionale, where she worked as an assistant photo editor. Her collaborations include the international news agency Associated Press (AP), for which she works as a video journalist, and Internazionale, where she contributes to the Africa and Middle East section.
Gianluca Furnari was born in Catania in 1993 and lives in Milan. Educated at the University of Catania and the Accademia Vivarium Novum in Frascati, he earned a PhD in Philology from the University of Florence in 2025 with a dissertation on the Latin poetry of Giovanni Aurelio Augurelli. He currently teaches literature in secondary schools. He has published two poetry collections, Vangelo elementare (Raffaelli, 2015) and Quaternarium (Interno Libri, 2024). His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and has been translated into English and Galician. For lay0ut magazine, he edited the translation column Neolatina, and in 2023 he organized the Certamen Poeticum Nubicentauricum, an international Latin poetry competition dedicated to fantastical themes. His Latin science-fiction works include the eclogue Leonardus et Saladinus (Renascens, 3, 2021) and Sepulchrum lunare (MediumPoesia, January 24, 2023). His science-fiction short story Ghirlandaio Enhanced appeared in issue 13 of Il Rifugio dell’Ircocervo in September 2025. Since December 2025, he has been running a satirical Instagram project (jean.gpt) featuring AI-generated interviews with intellectual animals.
Sentituoni spent the years between 1995 and 1997 scraping a 200-lira coin across the plastic strings of the tennis racket he had stolen from his mother’s storage closet. He needed a guitar. Once, at the age of six, he ran away from home. He spent an hour in a pine forest before returning. At sixteen, he saw the Pacific Ocean for the first time, near San Francisco. He spent more than half of his life in a small village in the Reggio Emilia Apennines, a place the railway never reached. They put all their faith in road transport instead. Back then, it snowed a lot. It was beautiful. For the past ten years, he has lived in Bologna, where he works for a social cooperative. Together with friends, he organizes ceremonies and convivial concerts, and takes part in rituals. He writes emails and notes on his phone. He writes songs, and he sings them. Some of those songs were collected in C’è da stare tranquilli (There’s Nothing to Worry About), a self-produced album released in 2024 with Alessio Vanni and the Collettivo Ramaglie. Since then, he has been travelling around, singing them wherever he goes.