Gabriele d’Annunzio, Italian poet, novelist, short story writer, dramatist, journalist, essayist, and scriptwriter, was a leading Italian author in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Since 1914, he also played an active role in Italian politics and became a national war hero and ideologist of the nationalists. His nonconformist model of aesthetic life (life as a work of art), his successful literary career, his political engagement in the Great War, and even his scandalous affairs surrounded his life with a legendary aura and contributed to making him one of the most striking personalities of the period in Italy, where he was and still is called, by antonomasia, the ‘Vate’ (the Bard).
This contribution deals with the multiliteracy potential of comics (Mackey, 2018;Wallner, 2020)about/from a further-away culture in secondary schools in Flanders, the northern, Dutchspeaking part of Belgium. We present and discuss the concrete set-up and the didactic evaluation of three workshops on Italy-related comics conducted within the aesthetics lessons for sixteen-year-olds in a Ghent school (Oct. 2020). The lessons and related activities are part of a pilot project, supported by the Embassy of Italy in Brussels and the Società Dante Alighieri of Ghent, that with the help of teachers and researchers from Ghent University offers a specialized approach to cultural, and socio-economic topics. The project aims to encourage the younger generation to question cultural and socio-economic bias and stereotypes; it also focuses the pupils' attention on the form of comics (Brunetti, 2011; McCloud, 2006) and on comics as a hybrid cultural artefact that trigger pupils' media awareness (Kashtan, 2017).
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