2016

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was an Austrian writer, playwright and poet, one of the protagonists in European culture at the start of the 20th century. Read and renowned around the world, he died in exile. He wrote masterly biographies including those of Balzac, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Fouché, and Marie Antoinette as well as his memoir, The World of Yesterday. Memories of a European.

Massimo Recalcati is one of the most famous psychoanalysts in Italy. He teaches at the Universities of Pavia and Verona. He is the founder of the Jonas no-profit organisation, a centre for clinical psychoanalysis for new symptoms and Scientific Director of the IRPA School of Specialisation n Psychotherapy as well as a founder and an analyst member of Alipsi. He collaborates with several specialist Italian and international magazines and the cultural section of La Repubblica newspaper. His publications include: Clinica del vuoto.

Pier Aldo Rovatti, professor of Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Trieste, has edited the magazine aut aut since the 1970s, a publication that has regularly covered the subject of play, also in some special instalments. In 2014, Rovatti created the Scuola di filosofia in Trieste, a focal point for the Contemporary Philosophy Laboratory he founded in Trieste decades ago.