'The Scarpettas and the De Filippo's. A family of artists'

'The Scarpettas and the De Filippo's. A Family of Artists' is the title of the Study Conference scheduled for Nov. 25 (starting at 3:30 p.m. in Central Hall 1) and Nov. 26, 2025 (starting at 9 a.m. in Central Hall 4).

The meeting, which will be opened by the greetings of Andrea Mazzucchi (Director of the Department of Humanities), aims to investigate the relationships (theatrical, literary, family) between Eduardo Scarpetta and the De Filippo family through the reports of professors pertaining to different Italian universities (in addition to Federico II, the University of Florence and the University of Verona).

"Eduardo Scarpetta died in Naples 100 years ago, in November 1925. This centenary," says Vincenzo Caputo, coordinator of the Master's Degree in Dramaturgy and Cinematography, "overlaps with another important anniversary, the 80th anniversary of the first staging of Napoli milionaria! by Eduardo De Filippo (March 25, 1945, Teatro San Carlo). These anniversaries certainly provide an important critical opportunity to reflect on the intertwining of Scarpetta and the De Filippo family."

"The Conference," Pasquale Sabbatino declares, "continues a tradition of studies born within the Department of Humanistic Studies, with the aim of reconstructing that Ariadne's thread that linked the most important theatrical families of the Neapolitan scene between the 19th and 20th centuries. Recent investigations in public and private archives on the Scarpettas and the De Filippoprovidevery useful new clues to retrace the ties of blood and art, sometimes with surprising passages of papers and scripts, and to grasp the diversity of the ways of posing, in one and the other branch, in front of Eduardo Scarpetta, who in the 1930s was represented by Vincenzo Scarpetta and Peppino De Filippo as Pirandello's Liolà."

The conference will close with a reflection on the film versions of Eduardo's works thanks to the testimony of actors Mario Autore and Adriano Pantaleo, who in recent years have had the difficult task of portraying characters of the great Eduardo in cinema and television.

For information: vincenzo.caputo@unina.it