Ricerc@Sapienza

The paper deals with the conception of the exhibition "Prague was more beautiful than Rome". Story of the Czech Avant-garde. The starting point is Angelo Maria Ripellino's first book, History of contemporary Czech poetry, and its recounting of Czech culture in the fistr half of the XXth century: Ripellino was aware of the unparalleled character of Czech avant-garde; moreover, he can rely on information from the protagonists of Czech avant-garde movements, as the letters found in Ripellino's archives show.