Per il verso giusto

All songs are love songs (even the ones that are not); all songs are political songs (even the ones that are not committed); all songs are catchy (even the ones that when your grandfather heard them, he would look out into his bedroom and shake his head, «What kind of junk is that? »): Simone Lenzi starts from here and among staves, words and big names in Italian and international music – from Gino Paoli to Franco Battiato, from the Beatles to the Rolling Stones – he invites us to enter the great workshop of popular song and discover its behind-the-scenes. This book is also designed for those who do not know music grammar and solfeggio: one can look at a staff as one looks at a beautiful landscape, reading the notes as if they were the contours of a mountain or the waves of the sea.

Simone Lenzi

Simone Lenzi was born in Livorno in 1968.
He studied philosophy at the University of Pisa. Since 1990 he has been singing and writing lyrics for Virginiana Miller, with whom he made six records considered among the best on the Italian indie scene and won the 2012 – 2013 David di Donatello with the song Tutti i Santi GiorniHe translated, with Simone Marchesi, the first book of Martial’s Epigrams (2008) and An explanation of America by Robert Pinsky (2009).
From his debut novel, La Generazione (Dalai, 2012), Paolo Virzì made the film Tutti i Santi Giorni. In 2013 he published Sul Lungomai di Livorno (Laterza editore), with which he won the 2014 City of Satire special prize. He also wrote Mali Minori (Laterza, 2014) and Per il verso giusto (Marsilio, 2017).
In Esilio (Rizzoli, 2018) is his latest novel.