Scintille dagli esiti memorabili: la collaborazione di Giovanni Testori e Luchino Visconti tra pagina, schermo e scena

Luchino Visconti di Modrone and Giovanni Testori were two great Lombards and two decisive artists, Their personal and creative paths crossed and gave interesting fruits. On the other hand, occasions for frictions and lively controversies were as many as they are notorius. The paper reconstructs the creative work of Testori and Visconti between synergies and conflicts in the creation of three works very different in languages, contexts, occasions, as well as in balances of authorial cooperation such as "Rocco e i suoi fratelli" , "Arialda" and "La monaca di Monza". Delving into generative opportunities and at the same time criticalities and limitations of these collaborations, and dwelling on the analysis of the documents surrounding the never fully clarified affair of the breakup of the relationship between the two artists, the contribution also attempts to shed light on how the collaboration, even through the experience of its failure, contributed to the lines of development of individual poetics and in particular to the shift of Testori's idea of theatre with "il Ventre del teatro" and the pieces of the Seventies