Portraits and Dedications

This section is devoted to backward glances into the past and to persons who featured in different ways in Nono's biography as both man and artist. Mirroring the progress of a journey, of an artistic and emotional awareness gradually attained, or of an ever more living “presence” of the past, it is no coincidence that they focus especially on Nono's last two decades, the 1970s and 1980s. Here too, in contrast to the Italian edition, attention is given to personalities closer to American and extra-European cultures, rather than to those with closer links to the Italian political or artistic scene.