Opisać Tottiego
To Describe Totti
Author(s): Kasper BajonSubject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Futball; Anthropology; Totti
Summary/Abstract: Words are helpless when describing Totti. Historical analogies? Perhaps Robert Guiscard, Frederic Hohenstauff, Francesco Sforza, Gattamelata, possibly Cesare Borgia. In this manner Francesco “Il Capitano” Totti becomes part of a long list of heroic rascals from the Apennine Peninsula – cursed emperors, self-proclaimed princes, unruly condottieri. There is no, and probably has never been, player more immersed in world history. The captain of Roma is not a symbol of our times, and says nothing about our contemporaneity. Totti is not part of the present but resembles a hero from another distant epoch – a recollection of the might of the Italy of yore...
Journal: Konteksty
- Issue Year: 2012
- Issue No: 03-04
- Page Range: 254
- Page Count: 1
- Language: Polish
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