Signora Bovary is an album of Italian singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini

Francesco Guccini

Francesco Guccini is an Italian singer-songwriter, considered one of the most important Cantautori. During the five decades of his music career he has recorded 16 studio albums and collections, and 6 live albums. He is also a writer, having published autobiographic and noir novels, and a comics...

. It was released in 1987 by EMI

EMI

The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...

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The album

"Signora Bovary" is a poetic variation of Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary , and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style.-Early life and education:Flaubert was born on December 12, 1821, in Rouen,...

's novel Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary is Gustave Flaubert's first published novel and is considered his masterpiece. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life...

. "Culodritto" is dedicated to Guccini's daughter, Teresa, who was 9 at the time. "Van Loon" is about Guccini's father, who was a reader of the books of the 1930s science writer Hendrik Willem van Loon

Hendrik Willem van Loon

Hendrik Willem van Loon was a Dutch-American historian and journalist.-Life:He was born in Rotterdam, the son of Hendrik Willem van Loon and Elisabeth Johanna Hanken. He went to the United States in 1902 to study at Cornell University, receiving his degree in 1905...

. The long suite "Keaton" was co-written by Claudio Lolli

Claudio Lolli

Claudio Lolli is an Italian singer-songwriter, poet, writer and secondary school teacher.-Biography:His first musical experiences started in the early 70s into the Osteria delle Dame of Bologna. Francesco Guccini introduced him into the music company EMI Italiana, who edited his first four LP from...

, who had found difficulties in releasing it: as Guccini liked it, he published in his new album after minor modification. The last stanzas deals with the American actor Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton

Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...

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Personnel

• Francesco Guccini - voice and guitar
• Juan Carlos "Flaco" Biondini - guitars
• Ares Tavolazzi
  Ares Tavolazzi
  Ares Tavolazzi is an Italian bass player and jazz musician born in Ferrara.-Biography:He studied cello and double bass in the Music School of Ferrara and began his career as bassist playing for Carmen Villani in a beat group, with his future collaborator, drummer Ellade Bandini...
  
   - bass
• Ellade Bandini - drums
• Vince Tempera - piano, keyboards
• Antonio Marangolo - saxophone
• Juan José Mosalini - bandoneon

Track listing

• "Scirocco" (5:40)
• "Signora Bovary" (4:36)
• "Van Loon" (5:44)
• "Culodritto" (2:39)
• "Keaton" (10:12)
• "Le piogge d'aprile" (3:51)
• "Canzone di notte N°3" (5:20)