{"id":4547,"date":"2025-10-24T13:32:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/?post_type=team&#038;p=4547"},"modified":"2025-11-11T12:54:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T09:54:56","slug":"matteo-nucci","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/authors\/matteo-nucci\/","title":{"rendered":"Matteo Nucci"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4547\" class=\"elementor elementor-4547 elementor-4472\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-616e8d9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"616e8d9\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-037f694\" data-id=\"037f694\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c0c16b4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c0c16b4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span>The Italian essayist, novelist, short story writer and reporter Matteo Nucci has been speaking out against the genocide in Gaza since 2023, condemning the insidious ways in which power manipulates language to refer to the horrific events taking place in the Middle East. Born in Rome in 1970, Nucci studied ancient philosophy, went on to edit and translate Plato\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><em>Symposium<\/em><span>\u00a0and wrote a series of essays on Empedocles, Socrates, Plato and the Homeric world that earned him widespread acclaim. His 2013 book\u00a0<\/span><em>Le lacrime degli eroi<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span>[Tears of the heroes] is a distillation of his literary passions, a narrative essay on the Iliad and the Odyssey that deftly sits at the intersection of study, novel and travelogue. His immensely popular 2025 book,\u00a0<\/span><em>Platone.\u00a0Una\u00a0storia\u00a0d\u2019\u00a0amore<\/em><span>\u00a0[Plato. A love story], is a fictionalized account of Plato\u2019s life that chronicles his life-altering encounters with Alcibiades, Socrates and Aristotle, his relationship with politics, but also his great loves. Two of his novels,\u00a0<\/span><em>Sono\u00a0comuni\u00a0le\u00a0cose\u00a0degli\u00a0amici<\/em><span>\u00a0[Between friends all is common] and\u00a0<\/span><em>E\u00a0giusto\u00a0obbedire\u00a0alla\u00a0notte<\/em><span>\u00a0[Obeying the night is only right], were nominated for the Strega Prize, the most important Italian literary award. His most recent book,\u00a0<\/span><em>Sognava i leoni. L&#8217;eroismo fragile di Ernest Hemingway<\/em><span>\u00a0[He dreamed of lions: the fragile heroism of Ernest Hemingway], is a fresh and definitive portrait of Ernest Hemingway through his life and work. Nucci is a regular contributor to various publications, including\u00a0<\/span><em>La\u00a0Stampa<\/em><span>,\u00a0<\/span><em>L\u2019\u00a0Espresso<\/em><span>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><em>il\u00a0manifesto<\/em><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy, 1970 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4488,"menu_order":45,"template":"","team_category":[88,107],"class_list":["post-4547","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","team_category-author","team_category-speakers-authors-archive-2026"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/4547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/4547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5555,"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/4547\/revisions\/5555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_category?post=4547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}