Le Pietre d’Inciampo GB

A talk with author Federico Gregotti Zoja

26 April 2025

5.00 PM

Plus - Cafè Plus

Gunter Demnig wears a jeans shirt, a red kerchief around his neck, a waistcoat full of pockets and a wide-brimmed hat. He looks like a cowboy, but instead he is a sculptor. Convinced that art must leave museums to speak to the people, he has created Europe’s largest widespread monument: the stumbling stones, tens of thousands of small, brass-coated concrete blocks placed on the pavements in front of the last homes of the victims of Nazi-Fascist persecution. From there, those innocents were snatched from their lives: from there, today, their names engraved on the brass plaques of the ‘Stolpersteine’ tell their story. A fiction book for children aged 9 and up interested in stories that help them understand the past, read the present and inspire the future. Moderated by Fabiola Megna, in partnership with BrivioDue Bookstore.

Federico Gregotti Zoja

Born in 1971 in Aosta, he teaches literature in high schools. He has published several works of fiction related to the world of art; these include the novels ‘L’ultima ghirlanda di Eva Gonzalès’ (Les Flâneurs Edizioni, 2024) and ‘Properzia de’ Rossi, la scultrice di meraviglie’ (Morellini Editore, 2025). For DeAgostini Scuola’s Dlive blog, he writes articles on women artists. With Edizioni EL-Einaudi Ragazzi she published the novels ‘Friedl e i bambini di Terezín’ (2021), ‘Una spia a regola d’arte’ (2023), ‘Liliana Segre, una vita contro l’indifferenza’ (2024), and the illustrated biography ‘Primo Levi, una voce per non dimenticare’ (2023).