Lilly Brogi

Early life

Brogi learned to paint from Pilade Giorgetti, Carlo Guarnieri and Voltolino Fontani.

Career

In 1990, she moved to Florence, where she began attending the events of "Camerata dei Poeti". She has been a member of associations such as: "Giovanni March"in 1999 in Livorno, ANLA Toscana in 2002, the "Antica Compagnia del Paiolo" in 2003, and the "Centro culturale Fuligno" in Florence in 2003.

In 1999, she founded the cultural association "la Pergola Arte di Firenze". In 2007, she inaugurated the International Literary Prize "Lilly Brogi La Pergola Arte" of Florence.

In 2017 she has been protagonist of the cultural event "l'Etrusca fra i colori di Tuscia" in the Auditorium Giovanni Spadolini in the Palazzo del Pegaso seats of Consiglio regionale della Toscana speakers of the show Anna Balsamo, Ornella Fiorentini, Carmelina Rotundo, Daniele Menicucci. The president Eugenio Giani was present during the afternoon.

Author

In 2005, her book of short stories Toscana ... Cave Canem fra leggenda e realtà was published by Bastogi Editrice Italiana. In 2007, she published a book of poems, Un soffio di vita. In 2009, she published another poetry book, Entro l'arco del mio giorno with works owned by Bastogi Editrice Italiana. In 2010, she published a third poetry book, Amoreggiandone.

In 2007 with the gallery M'Arte of Pistoia, she organized '"Asta di Benificienza d'Arte Contemporanea" and 2008 again with M'Arte Pistoia in collaboration with the Art gallery La Pergola Arte in Florence, she organized an 'auction" of Contemporary Masters.

In 2010, she promoted with La Pergola Arte e Peter Michael Musone, the poetic encounter with the poets Duccia Camiciotti and Fausto Sbaffoni "From Florence to the Stars" at the "Consiglio regionale della Toscana" Palazzo Panciatichi Via Cavour Florence. In 2011, she promoted the anthology One Hundred Voices to the Sky and presented at the "Consiglio regionale della Toscana".

In 2012, she published the storybook Agresti Fiori per la Repubblica italiana and promoted and presented the poet Giorgina Busca Gernetti at the Caffè Giubbe Rosse "Le Giubbe Rosse" in Florence along with Anna Maria Giglio, Enrico Nistri, and Giancarlo Bianchi.

In 2015 with Peter Michael Musone she organized the literary meeting "Dante ritorna a casa" at Caffè Giubbe Rosse, with Franco Costantini actor's recital accompanied on guitar by Raimondo Raimondi and the following poets: Anna Balsamo, Ornella Fiorentini, Alfredo Vernacotola, Menotti Galeotti, Giancarlo Bianchi.

Awards

In 2001, she received second prize in the contest "La Diligence". Two years later, in Pistoia, she won the Cultural Award, A.N.L.A Tuscany, for the dissemination of literature and poetry in the field of beauty and intellect. In 2008, Un soffio di vita received first prize in the Premio Val di Magra Roberto Micheloni. In 2012, she received the Award Fiorino d'Oro for unpublished poetry in XXX Prize Fiorino d'oro in Florence organized by the Cultural Centre Europe-Florence, "Mario Conti".

Painting

Her exhibitions include:

Published works

Poetry anthologies