On Monday, 11 November at 7 pm, the Instituto Francés of Madrid’s media library will host a literary meeting with writer Emanuele Arioli, in which his book Segurant, el caballero del dragón (Segurant, the dragon knight) will be presented. Free entry with prior reservation at this link. Event in French with simultaneous translation.
Emanuele Arioli, a Franco-Italian author and medievalist, will present his latest book in a conversation with professor Pilar Suárez Pascual. After frantic research, he rediscovered the extraordinary adventures of this gentleman from the Round Table that had been forgotten for centuries.
For more than ten years, Emanuele Arioli searched libraries all over Europe in search of manuscripts on this story from the Arturian cycle. “Segurant” is an unpublished narrative that reveals itself as a cross of legends and cultures, and as one of the great literary events of this century. Segurant leaves his homeland, the Unknown Island, to meet with King Arthur and challenge his paladins. Along the way, he wins countless tournaments, awakening the admiration of the knights of the Round Table. But two sorcerers, Morgana and Sibila, conjure the image of a dragon that spits fire out of its mouth, and Segurant sets out to chase it.
Emanuele Arioli studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, at the Écoles nationales des Chartes, at the Sorbonne and at the École Normale Supérieure in Pisa. Doctor of Medieval Studies, he was a professor at the Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France. Recently, he was appointed Distinguished Researcher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
