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Filumena Marturano - Il sindaco del Rione Sanità
Drama
210 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1946
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Eduardo De Filippo
100 books29 followersEduardo De Filippo was an Italian actor, playwright, screenwriter, author and poet, best known for his Neapolitan works Filumena Marturano and Napoli Milionaria.
De Filippo was born in Naples to playwright Eduardo Scarpetta and theatre seamstress and costumier Luisa De Filippo. He began acting at the age of five and in 1932 formed a theater company with his brother Peppino and sister Titina. Peppino left the troupe in 1944 and Titina departed by the early 1950s. De Filippo starred in De Sica's L'oro di Napoli with Totò and Sophia Loren in 1954. His translation of Shakespeare's The Tempest into Neapolitan was published in 1982.
In 1981, De Filippo was appointed life senator of the Italian Republic. He died four years later in Rome. His artistic legacy has been carried over by his son.
De Filippo was born in Naples to playwright Eduardo Scarpetta and theatre seamstress and costumier Luisa De Filippo. He began acting at the age of five and in 1932 formed a theater company with his brother Peppino and sister Titina. Peppino left the troupe in 1944 and Titina departed by the early 1950s. De Filippo starred in De Sica's L'oro di Napoli with Totò and Sophia Loren in 1954. His translation of Shakespeare's The Tempest into Neapolitan was published in 1982.
In 1981, De Filippo was appointed life senator of the Italian Republic. He died four years later in Rome. His artistic legacy has been carried over by his son.
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May 25, 2021
Nonostante ami il teatro di De Filippo, è la sua prima opera che leggo.
Conoscevo già la storia che non si sposta un millimetro dalla rappresentazione.
Come tipico delle opere di Eduardo, accanto alla parte drammatica raccontata con maestria, troviamo la comicità che smorza i toni e rende la narrazione più leggera, pur trattando di temi molto seri.
Filumena è una ex prostituta che è innamorata di Domenico Soriano, che però è un mezzo guappo e donnaiolo che la fa soffrire di continuo.
Allora lei ricorre a un sotterfugio per trarre qualcosa di buono da lui e dai suoi soldi. Quando lui lo scopre però succedono un po’ di cose, alcune non prevedibili.
Ed è da qui che parte la recitazione con soli quattro personaggi principali e alcuni secondari che compaiono per poco.
Indubbiamente Filumena e Domenico occupano la scena ma risaltano anche Rosalia (nome non proprio tipico napoletano), Alfredo e Lucia. Soprattutto gli ultimi due sono quelli che aggiungono la parte più comica alla storia con battute, doppi sensi e fraintendimenti.
Napoli è sempre la protagonista principale del teatro di Eduardo, che parla e viene descritta attraverso i suoi personaggi.
Qui troviamo la Napoli dei bassi peggiori, quelli più poveri, dove non si vede mai il sole, ma anche quella che contrappone i più ricchi ma con pochi principi morali ai più poveri ma integri moralmente e capaci di provare i sentimenti veri e di agire secondo essi.
Per puro caso ho scoperto che esiste una versione cinematografica di De Sica con Mastroianni e Sophia Loren, intitolata Matrimonio all’italiana, che ovviamente devo recuperare.
È stato un po’ particolare leggere il napoletano scritto, perché non è esattamente lo stesso di quello parlato, ed essendo una versione degli anni 40, ho trovato un paio di termini che nemmeno io conoscevo così, probabilmente cambiati nel frattempo.
Conoscevo già la storia che non si sposta un millimetro dalla rappresentazione.
Come tipico delle opere di Eduardo, accanto alla parte drammatica raccontata con maestria, troviamo la comicità che smorza i toni e rende la narrazione più leggera, pur trattando di temi molto seri.
Filumena è una ex prostituta che è innamorata di Domenico Soriano, che però è un mezzo guappo e donnaiolo che la fa soffrire di continuo.
Allora lei ricorre a un sotterfugio per trarre qualcosa di buono da lui e dai suoi soldi. Quando lui lo scopre però succedono un po’ di cose, alcune non prevedibili.
Ed è da qui che parte la recitazione con soli quattro personaggi principali e alcuni secondari che compaiono per poco.
Indubbiamente Filumena e Domenico occupano la scena ma risaltano anche Rosalia (nome non proprio tipico napoletano), Alfredo e Lucia. Soprattutto gli ultimi due sono quelli che aggiungono la parte più comica alla storia con battute, doppi sensi e fraintendimenti.
Napoli è sempre la protagonista principale del teatro di Eduardo, che parla e viene descritta attraverso i suoi personaggi.
Qui troviamo la Napoli dei bassi peggiori, quelli più poveri, dove non si vede mai il sole, ma anche quella che contrappone i più ricchi ma con pochi principi morali ai più poveri ma integri moralmente e capaci di provare i sentimenti veri e di agire secondo essi.
Per puro caso ho scoperto che esiste una versione cinematografica di De Sica con Mastroianni e Sophia Loren, intitolata Matrimonio all’italiana, che ovviamente devo recuperare.
È stato un po’ particolare leggere il napoletano scritto, perché non è esattamente lo stesso di quello parlato, ed essendo una versione degli anni 40, ho trovato un paio di termini che nemmeno io conoscevo così, probabilmente cambiati nel frattempo.
October 11, 2023
more like 4.5 💅 filumena is yet another absolutely cunning, formidable Neopolitan woman (reminiscent of another Brilliant Friend!!!)
July 28, 2025
Όταν οι Ναπολετάνοι δεν φωνάζουν, ή κοιμούνται ή ετοιμάζονται να πεθάνουν – και η Φιλουμένα ούτε κοιμάται ούτε πεθαίνει. Είναι ο ορισμός της γυναίκας που αρνείται να ξεχαστεί, να συμβιβαστεί, να υποχωρήσει έτσι εύκολα. Ένα έργο γεμάτο πάθος, απωθημένα και εντάσεις, που εξελίσσεται σαν καλοστημένο οικογενειακό δράμα με ρυθμό σαπουνόπερας αλλά ψυχή θεάτρου. Σουρεαλιστικά ιταλικό, βαθιά ανθρώπινο.
Ο Eduardo De Filippo συνδυάζει το κωμικό και το τραγικό με μαεστρία: γελάς, θυμώνεις, συγκινείσαι, και μετά αναρρωτιέσαι σε ποιον χαρακτήρα μοιάζεις περισσότερο. Γιατί θα ήθελες να ήσουν Φιλουμένα αλλά φοβάσαι πως τελικά είσαι περισσότερο Ντομένικο. Εννοείται πως θα μπορούσε κάλλιστα να μιλάει για τη Δέσποινα και το Βαγγέλη και να διαδραματίζεται στην Αθήνα. Έργο διαχρονικό και παγκόσμιο.
Αφαιρώ ένα αστέρι γιατί κάπου χάνει τη δυναμική του, με ελαφρώς επαναλαμβανόμενους και κοινότοπους διαλόγους αλλά γενικά αξίζει – ειδικά αν αγαπάτε θεατρικούς μονολόγους-γροθιά και χαρακτήρες που μιλάνε λες και είναι έτοιμοι να κάνουν επανάσταση ή να φτιάξουν μακαρονάδα.
Ο Eduardo De Filippo συνδυάζει το κωμικό και το τραγικό με μαεστρία: γελάς, θυμώνεις, συγκινείσαι, και μετά αναρρωτιέσαι σε ποιον χαρακτήρα μοιάζεις περισσότερο. Γιατί θα ήθελες να ήσουν Φιλουμένα αλλά φοβάσαι πως τελικά είσαι περισσότερο Ντομένικο. Εννοείται πως θα μπορούσε κάλλιστα να μιλάει για τη Δέσποινα και το Βαγγέλη και να διαδραματίζεται στην Αθήνα. Έργο διαχρονικό και παγκόσμιο.
Αφαιρώ ένα αστέρι γιατί κάπου χάνει τη δυναμική του, με ελαφρώς επαναλαμβανόμενους και κοινότοπους διαλόγους αλλά γενικά αξίζει – ειδικά αν αγαπάτε θεατρικούς μονολόγους-γροθιά και χαρακτήρες που μιλάνε λες και είναι έτοιμοι να κάνουν επανάσταση ή να φτιάξουν μακαρονάδα.
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November 19, 2018
June 17, 2023
I saw the play "Filumena" in the theatre years ago and recently listened to a radio performance. It's an intriguing and enjoyable play, but I found that there were moments where there was a bit too much verbosity.
April 5, 2021
Filumena (felice): Dummi’, sto chiagnenno… Quant’è bello chiàgnere…
Domenico (stringendola teneramente a sé): È niente… è niente. He’ curruto… he’ curruto… te si’ mmisa appaura... si’ caduta… te si’ aizata… te si’ arranfecata… He’ pensato, e ‘o ppenza’ stanca… Mo’ nun he’ ‘a correre cchiù, non he’ ‘a penza’ cchiù… Ripòsate!
***
Quanto è bello piangere! E lo facciamo così poco… Che sia per rabbia o per gioia, per stanchezza o per tristezza, piangere è uno dei modi principali in cui possiamo esprimere e liberare le nostre emozioni
E, di emozioni, questo capolavoro teatrale è ricco. Avevo già visto e amato il bellissimo film “Matrimonio all’italiana”, diretto da Vittorio De Sica e tratto dal testo di Eduardo De Filippo; leggere il testo ha davvero un sapore speciale.
Domenico (stringendola teneramente a sé): È niente… è niente. He’ curruto… he’ curruto… te si’ mmisa appaura... si’ caduta… te si’ aizata… te si’ arranfecata… He’ pensato, e ‘o ppenza’ stanca… Mo’ nun he’ ‘a correre cchiù, non he’ ‘a penza’ cchiù… Ripòsate!
***
Quanto è bello piangere! E lo facciamo così poco… Che sia per rabbia o per gioia, per stanchezza o per tristezza, piangere è uno dei modi principali in cui possiamo esprimere e liberare le nostre emozioni
E, di emozioni, questo capolavoro teatrale è ricco. Avevo già visto e amato il bellissimo film “Matrimonio all’italiana”, diretto da Vittorio De Sica e tratto dal testo di Eduardo De Filippo; leggere il testo ha davvero un sapore speciale.
July 8, 2025
Marriage Italian Style based on Filumena Marturano by Eduardo de Filippo http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/03/m...
10 out of 10
Even seen for the second time, Marriage Italian Style, based on the play Filumena Marturano by Eduardo de Filippo, provides more than entertainment, unless the viewer identifies too much with the protagonist, or if he, she or they use too much of the rigor of Cancel Culture, Woke or other modern censorship rules.
If we see too much of what is going on in the screen with the lens of personal experience, it can be a liability, or worse, fun, humor will be replaced by chagrin, whining and thinking of personal failures, the contemplation of missed goals
We find reading in The How of Happiness about Happiness Activity No 10: Committing to Your Goals-picking one, two or three significant goals that are meaningful to you and devoting time and effort to pursue them
Thus, we have to be careful, and follow the advice http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/07/t... and see that one other rule of happiness is that relationships matter more than other things.
Indeed, there are tens of thousands of experiments, tests, research and they have looked at the happiest people on earth, and they do not have massive wealth in common, but excellent relationships with family and friends.
You could argue that the protagonists of Filumena Marturano, especially the heroine, and Domenico Soriano aka Marcello Mastroianni are happy in this continuous conflict and this is their way to Flow, Peak Experience
About Being in The Zone, or Peak Experience you have no better guide than Flow by the co-founder of positive psychology Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/10/f...
Among the conditions for reaching a zenith of emotions, experience you have the idea time becomes relative, or as Albert Einstein explained it so well “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour…Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute…That's relativity.”
Other rules of Flow are challenges meet skills – for instance, when you play tennis with a much better or worse player, you get bored, because you either do not reach the returns of the better one, or the opponent is so weak that he or she does not get to your hits
Filumena seem to be more at war than infatuated with each other – ‘all is fair in love and war’ was one stupid saying, and it confirms the error of relying on proverbs…here is another one ‘appearances deceive’
Malcolm Gladwell demonstrates in his classic of psychology Blink The Power of Thinking Without Thinking http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/05/b... the ineptness of the proverb
We take decisions, form opinions in less than one minute, due to The Thin Slicing Effect, the fact that for millennia humans have had to use the ‘fight or flight’ instinct to survive, and let us name the experiment in which participants have been shown the video of less than a minute, after which they have had to rate a professor, and their evaluations matched those of students who had spent a semester with the teacher.
In other words, a semester or less than a minute led to the same conclusions, and then we have the other research which involved the CEOs of many of the Top 500 Fortune companies, and the revelation that about a third of the leaders were very tall, and the at that height, they represent a much smaller percentage (I think it was about ten times less) of the population at large, so this demonstrates the validity of the principle
It is called the Harding Effect, from the American president who got elected about one century ago, because he was tall, had the appearance of someone who could be a good leader, and he turned out to be one of the worst.
Indeed, Malcolm Gladwell mentioned him as the worst, there was some debate, Ulysses Grant had been a candidate for that unfortunate place, but Trump has managed to beat all expectations, and he is a calamity for any sensible human
At least this is how I feel, and there is nothing anyone can say to convince me otherwise, which could prove not just feebleness, but also a sort of obstinacy, mule like stubbornness that is shameful and embarrassing
Bill Maher has just had his latest show, in which the New Rules referred to Trump and the attempt to have him scented for the Stormy Daniels affair – now there is a small connection with Marriage Italian Style which I have more or less abandoned from the start – which Maher rejects, but then Maher has been a grumpy, acid, unlikeable comedian for some time, in my view, putting out with arrogance statements like ‘I use private jets’
I am surprised I did not go off on the tangent of my own Marriage Italian Style, the problems that have made this just a convenience connection, when for financial reasons there is no legal separation, but in spirit, there is animosity and little, if anything connecting these two people, however, there is a way out: http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/u...
Written by Revolutionary Realini – here is the page from the article in Newsweek that covered the rebellion that took down Ceausescu, in which I am proud to say that I played a small (maybe miniscule, microscopic) role http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
10 out of 10
Even seen for the second time, Marriage Italian Style, based on the play Filumena Marturano by Eduardo de Filippo, provides more than entertainment, unless the viewer identifies too much with the protagonist, or if he, she or they use too much of the rigor of Cancel Culture, Woke or other modern censorship rules.
If we see too much of what is going on in the screen with the lens of personal experience, it can be a liability, or worse, fun, humor will be replaced by chagrin, whining and thinking of personal failures, the contemplation of missed goals
We find reading in The How of Happiness about Happiness Activity No 10: Committing to Your Goals-picking one, two or three significant goals that are meaningful to you and devoting time and effort to pursue them
Thus, we have to be careful, and follow the advice http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/07/t... and see that one other rule of happiness is that relationships matter more than other things.
Indeed, there are tens of thousands of experiments, tests, research and they have looked at the happiest people on earth, and they do not have massive wealth in common, but excellent relationships with family and friends.
You could argue that the protagonists of Filumena Marturano, especially the heroine, and Domenico Soriano aka Marcello Mastroianni are happy in this continuous conflict and this is their way to Flow, Peak Experience
About Being in The Zone, or Peak Experience you have no better guide than Flow by the co-founder of positive psychology Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/10/f...
Among the conditions for reaching a zenith of emotions, experience you have the idea time becomes relative, or as Albert Einstein explained it so well “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour…Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute…That's relativity.”
Other rules of Flow are challenges meet skills – for instance, when you play tennis with a much better or worse player, you get bored, because you either do not reach the returns of the better one, or the opponent is so weak that he or she does not get to your hits
Filumena seem to be more at war than infatuated with each other – ‘all is fair in love and war’ was one stupid saying, and it confirms the error of relying on proverbs…here is another one ‘appearances deceive’
Malcolm Gladwell demonstrates in his classic of psychology Blink The Power of Thinking Without Thinking http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/05/b... the ineptness of the proverb
We take decisions, form opinions in less than one minute, due to The Thin Slicing Effect, the fact that for millennia humans have had to use the ‘fight or flight’ instinct to survive, and let us name the experiment in which participants have been shown the video of less than a minute, after which they have had to rate a professor, and their evaluations matched those of students who had spent a semester with the teacher.
In other words, a semester or less than a minute led to the same conclusions, and then we have the other research which involved the CEOs of many of the Top 500 Fortune companies, and the revelation that about a third of the leaders were very tall, and the at that height, they represent a much smaller percentage (I think it was about ten times less) of the population at large, so this demonstrates the validity of the principle
It is called the Harding Effect, from the American president who got elected about one century ago, because he was tall, had the appearance of someone who could be a good leader, and he turned out to be one of the worst.
Indeed, Malcolm Gladwell mentioned him as the worst, there was some debate, Ulysses Grant had been a candidate for that unfortunate place, but Trump has managed to beat all expectations, and he is a calamity for any sensible human
At least this is how I feel, and there is nothing anyone can say to convince me otherwise, which could prove not just feebleness, but also a sort of obstinacy, mule like stubbornness that is shameful and embarrassing
Bill Maher has just had his latest show, in which the New Rules referred to Trump and the attempt to have him scented for the Stormy Daniels affair – now there is a small connection with Marriage Italian Style which I have more or less abandoned from the start – which Maher rejects, but then Maher has been a grumpy, acid, unlikeable comedian for some time, in my view, putting out with arrogance statements like ‘I use private jets’
I am surprised I did not go off on the tangent of my own Marriage Italian Style, the problems that have made this just a convenience connection, when for financial reasons there is no legal separation, but in spirit, there is animosity and little, if anything connecting these two people, however, there is a way out: http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/u...
Written by Revolutionary Realini – here is the page from the article in Newsweek that covered the rebellion that took down Ceausescu, in which I am proud to say that I played a small (maybe miniscule, microscopic) role http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
December 31, 2024
Esta comedia demuestra que este tipo de teatro también puede aportar un mensaje y una fuerte crítica social. Y lo hace a través de Filomena, una antigua prostituta que reivindica sus derechos y que durante años ha ejercido como madre soltera de tres hijos. De Filippo tal vez no fuera consciente y solo querría escribir una comedia romántica con final feliz, pero en esta historia hay una mujer con conciencia de clase y consciente de la vida que quiere para sus hijos, que ha sido capaz de apartarse de ellos para poder cuidarlos mejor sin que sufran el estigma de su antigua condición. Os recomiendo que conozcáis a Filomena Marturano.
December 29, 2024
A hilarious and heartwarming tale of love, deception, and resilience, Filumena masterfully blends sharp wit with touching humanity. Eduardo De Filippo crafts a story full of humor and unexpected twists.
February 4, 2021
read it for school
liked it
liked it
December 24, 2023
Muy espabilada la Filumena.
October 26, 2020
Bellissima commedia teatrale
July 22, 2024
كوميديا إيطالية قصيرة مكيّفة الهواء
لم أملك نفسي من الابتسام أغلب الوقت
لم أملك نفسي من الابتسام أغلب الوقت
May 23, 2013
capolavoro
a mio parere si tratta della massima opera di Eduardo De Filippo: forte, commmovente, reale. Il personaggio di Filumena è straordinario. Non si può capire la bellezza di quest'opera, se non la si legge e non si assiste alla commedia. Io conosco quasi tutte le versioni teatrali per la tv, e ogni volta mi commuovo e vengo rapita. Straordinario De Filippo!
a mio parere si tratta della massima opera di Eduardo De Filippo: forte, commmovente, reale. Il personaggio di Filumena è straordinario. Non si può capire la bellezza di quest'opera, se non la si legge e non si assiste alla commedia. Io conosco quasi tutte le versioni teatrali per la tv, e ogni volta mi commuovo e vengo rapita. Straordinario De Filippo!
January 20, 2017
Una obra de lectura rápida cuyos personajes tienen relaciones complejas y conflictivas entre sí, las cuales muestran en sus intensos diálogos. Sin embargo, la velocidad con que se resuelven los conflictos planteados me resulta un tanto inverosímil.
December 23, 2020
Another playwright from Napoli: it’s a pity that I couldn’t read it in original language as it wasn’t originally written in Italian but in Napoletan dialect. It’s a very organized and decent play pleasant to read or to stage.
October 21, 2015
Μια γυναίκα που ερμηνεύει τους νόμους της ζωής με το δικό της τρόπο και τους αντιμετωπίζει ανάλογα.
Ένα νόμο ήξερα: αυτόν που κάνει τους ανθρώπους να γελάνε.
Ένα νόμο ήξερα: αυτόν που κάνει τους ανθρώπους να γελάνε.
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