The Oriental Socieity is organising a lecture entitled 'The Venetian Sonnet of Feng Zhi'. The talk will be held on Wednesday 26 April at 18:30, at the Archaeology Centre, University of Malta Msida Campus.
Salvatore Giuffré (Assistant Lecturer in Chinese at the University of Malta) will talk about Western philosophical and literary influences on the poetry of Feng Zhi, best-known modern Chinese sonnet writer and scholar of German literature.
Mr Giuffré will present a general overview of Feng Zhi’s poetry and will primarily focus on a sonnet, which Feng wrote and dedicated to the city of Venice to symbolise and evoke the human state of loneliness. In fact, according to the Chinese poet, the numerous bridges and islands that form the Venetian lagoon represent the relationship between people and their ultimate state of solitude.