Lucio Piccolo/Mondo Lirico (2008)

Lucio Piccolo became known on the Italian literary scene when he was 51 and Eugenio Montale casually discovered his "Canti Barocchi" and decided to present them in an important poetry meeting in Sanpellegrino Terme. The musical charm of the poems, full of literary suggestions and lively images immediately conquered the most important writers and critics also because Lucio kept company with his cousin Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, another mysterious character of the aristocratic Sicilian world. The old and eccentric "knight of Calanovella" became suddenly very famous all over the country. Lucio Piccolo never left his house in the countryside near Capo d'Orlando in Sicily; he lived there with the brother Casimiro, photographer and esoteric, and the sister Agata Giovanna, botanist and manager of the family estate. But many journalists and intellectuals went to the villa to know the poet and the world described in his poems. The documentary film is a portrait of Lucio Piccolo trough the remembrances of people the have visited the villa discovering its magic secrets.