Girolamo Comi Exhibition in Lecce

A new exhibition in Lucugnano, Lecce, celebrates the Salento poet and writer Girolamo Comi (1890-1968), fifty years after his death. Curated by Luigi De Luca, the show explores Comi's cultural networks with national poets, artists, and intellectuals such as Luciano Anceschi, Rosario Assunto, Vincenzo Ciardo, Maria Corti, Oreste Macrì, and Ferruccio Ferrazzi. It features a rich documentary selection of letters, manuscripts, photographs, books, and editions of the magazine L'Albero, which Comi founded and financed in 1949. The exhibition also highlights artists like Aldo Calò, Antonio D'Andrea, Lino Paolo Suppressa, and Vincenzo Ciardo, whose oil paintings are on view in the exhibition 'Depositi di Capodimonte. Storie ancora da scrivere' at the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples. Comi's first poetry book, 'Il Lampadario', was published by a Jewish publisher and reviewed in Mercure de France. In Paris, he studied symbolists like Baudelaire and Mallarmé and befriended Émile Verhaeren, Paul Claudel, and Paul Valéry. Returning to Puglia in 1948, he founded the Accademia Salentina in his Lucugnano palace, a avant-garde literary and artistic cenacle. The exhibition, supported by the Polo biblio-museale di Lecce, aims to restore visibility to Comi's significant but overlooked legacy, promoting his library and historical archive.