Written in 2015 in prose and 2017 as libretto, Lady Giovanna, the cheater of Salerno was first performed on 25 November 2017 at the Marucelliana Library of Florence.
Some quotes from the play:
If you want understand how a woman loves you just have to listen her words backwards. If you want to understand how a man loves, when he talks about love you must close your ears.
Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene ii.
Men are like wine. You taste them, they seem good, they arouse your senses… But after? You suddenly find yourself with your head spinning. And if you are not careful, if you don’t chose only those high quality ones, you will end up feeling also nauseated.
Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene ii.
Remember that the sun doesn’t belong more to a man than to you. Never let yourself to be put in the shadow.
Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene ii.
I want to follow the instinct, the passion of my desire, once unspeakable. The moments of love serve to remind us that our condition tends to happiness!
Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene iii.
We were born boys or girls, but we don’t know what we will become, to which gender we will belong to at death.
Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene iii.
Happiness is the illusion of being happy, unhappiness is the fear of being it. A little bit of fear helps you to live in the light, too much strangles you in the dark.
Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene iii.
We deceive ourselves to be the same for our whole life, instead we are other every moment.
Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene iii.
Yes, warn her! Warn her that I’ve decided to put an end to her existence. Life is nothing but a river destined to dry itself, a source kept luxuriant for a few years by the rain that falls from our own eyes.
Donna Giovanna, Act II, scene ii.
If you are stupid they’ll humiliate you, if you’re wise they’ll hate you, if you’re beautiful they’ll kill you, and nor the virtues nor the weaknesses of a woman are ever forgiven. Men are blind of rage for being born as monsters, for not being capable to be loved and to love themselves.
Brunella, Act II, scene ii.
I know that in a pure heart a wicked person does more damage than a hailstorm in a vineyard.
Dario, Act II, scene ii.
Women don’t think with the heart, but with emotions.
Donna Giovanna, Act II, scene v.
We should never be afraid of our dreams, but only of who doesn’t want to make us dream.
Dario, Act III, scene iV.
The perfect couple is the one which the more one is faraway from the other, the more closer they feel.
Donna Giovanna, Act III, scene iv.
Betraying who you love is like betraying yourself!
Donna Giovanna, Act III, scene iv.
If God entrusted his word to priests, it’s easy to explain why the world refuses to listen to it.
Donna Giovanna, Act IV, scene ii.
I’ve never been afraid to die. Death in my dreams is a walk, compared to what we call life. If I have to fall, I want to do it my way, without anybody supporting me or pushing me.
Donna Giovanna, Act IV, scene iii.
Men were born to die! Life has only one purpose: to understand the sense of your own misery.
Donna Giovanna, Act IV, scene iii.
When a devil, but also a saint, laughs about your poetry, you laugh about his ignorance!
Donna Giovanna, Act IV, scene iii.