GulliverLife and Travels of Sir Lemuel Gulliver, Explorer In his long Hours of Rest and Memories That only a certain Age may give
Sir Lemuel Gulliver us'd to remind the Time When he would sail o?er the Main And smiling as he only doth smile Who doth not fear his Future any more
He talked to his Grandsons, who listen'd to enchanted Stories Of distants Shores, Smells, Giants and Dwarfs, Of Crews and Men of Science, of talking wise Horses Filling the English Sky with Mirages.
But, if one's Desires are only Nostalgia Or Melancholy of countless, diff'rent Lives In his old Friends whom he met along the Way In their bewilder'd, dismay'd Souls He felt the intellectual Blabbering and the Aphasia Of them, who were longing for Understanding But, confusing Travels with their Parodies And Dreams with the Action of Leaving away
Of all his Lives he had rov'd under the Sunrays Only empty Word Shells were left over.
Then, when he was recalling the never-ending Series Of Travels lost in his memory
The giant was feeling in his Absent-Mindedness The rough & coarse Sense of History And in the old Exactness of the Human Project Or in his vain, in his limitèd World He felt the cruel Loneliness of a Dwarf, He felt the cruel Loneliness of a Dwarf In the Half-Immensity of Universe; Both faces of a Medal shouting at him
That he won't learn, that he won't learn
Anything at all from Time and Sea.
Fabrizio De André nasce il 18 febbraio 1940 nel quartiere genovese di Pegli, in via De Nicolay 12 (dove è stata posta una piccola targa commemorativa) da una famiglia dell'alta borghesia industriale cittadina. I genitori sono entrambi piemontesi. Il padre Giuseppe (Torino, 15 settembre 1912 ? Genova, 19 luglio 1985), è stato vicesindaco repubblicano di Genova, amministratore delegato dell'Eridania e ha promosso la costruzione della Fiera del Mare di Genova, nel quartiere della Foce. La madre è Luigia "Luisa" Amerio (Pocapaglia, 26 agosto 1911 ? Genova, 3 gennaio 1995). Fabrizio vive inizialmente nella campagna astigiana a Revignano d'Asti, luogo dal quale la famiglia era originaria e dove sfollò a causa dei bombardamenti e per rendere meno difficoltosi i contatti con il padre, ricercato dai fascisti per aver impedito la deportazione dei suoi alunni ebrei. Visse, poi, nella Genova del dopoguerra, scossa e partecipe della contrapposizione tra cattolici e comunisti, sovente rigidi e bigotti entrambi. Dopo aver frequentato le scuole elementari in un istituto privato retto da suore, passò alla scuola statale, dove il suo comportamento "fuori dagli schemi" gli impedì una pacifica convivenza con le persone che vi trovò, in special modo con i professori. Per questo fu trasferito nella severa scuola dei Gesuiti dell'Arecco. Presso i Gesuiti dell'Arecco, scuola media inferiore frequentata dai rampolli della "Genova-bene", Fabrizio fu vittima, nel corso del primo anno di frequenza, di un tentativo di molestia sessuale da parte di un gesuita dell'istituto; nonostante l'età, la reazione verso il "padre spirituale" fu pronta e, soprattutto, chiassosa, irriverente e prolungata, tanto da indurre la direzione ad espellere il giovane De André, nel tentativo di placare lo scandalo. L'improvvido espediente si rivelò vano poiché, a causa del provvedimento d'espulsione, dell'episodio venne a conoscenza il padre di Fabrizio, esponente della Resistenza e vicesindaco di Genova, che informò il Provveditore agli studi, pretendendo un'immediata inchiesta che terminò con l'allontanamento dall'istituto scolastico del gesuita.Studia presso il liceo comunale ?Cristoforo Colombo?. In seguito il cantautore frequentò alcuni corsi di lettere e altri di medicina presso l'Università di Genova prima di scegliere la facoltà di Giurisprudenza, ispirato dal padre e dal fratello Mauro (Torino, 26 maggio 1936 ? Bogotà, 18 agosto 1989), che diverrà un noto avvocato. A sei esami dalla laurea decise di intraprendere una strada diversa: la musica (suo fratello sarebbe divenuto uno dei suoi fan più fedeli e critici). Successivamente ad un primo e problematico approccio, determinato dalla decisione dei genitori di avviarlo allo studio del violino, il folgorante incontro con la musica avvenne con l'ascolto di Brassens, del quale De André tradurrà alcune canzoni, inserendole nei primi album. La passione, poi, aveva preso corpo anche grazie alla "scoperta" del jazz e all'assidua frequentazione degli amici Tenco, Bindi, Paoli, del pianista Mario De Sanctis ed altri, con cui iniziò a suonare la chitarra e a cantare nel locale "La borsa di Arlecchino". De André, in questi anni, ebbe una vita sregolata ed in contrasto con le consuetudini della sua famiglia, frequentando amici di tutte le estrazioni culturali e sociali. Sovente, con l'amico d'infanzia Paolo Villaggio, cercava di sbarcare il lunario con lavori saltuari, anche imbarcandosi, d'estate, sulle navi da crociera come musicista per le feste di bordo. La prima moglie di De André fu una ragazza di famiglia borghese, Enrica Rignon detta "Puny", con cui concepì il figlio Cristiano e dalla quale si separò a metà degli anni settanta. In seguito al matrimonio e alla nascita del figlio, Fabrizio fu pressato dalla necessità di provvedere al mantenimento della famiglia e trovò un impiego in un istituto scolastico privato come insegnante.
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