Il libro nero
{{short description|1951 novel by Giovanni Papini}}
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Il libro nero. Nuovo diario di Gog ({{literal translation|The Black Book: Gog's New Diary}}) is a 1951 novel by the Italian writer Giovanni Papini. It is in the form of a diary with the views and adventures of the American millionaire Goggins, nicknamed Gog. It is the sequel to Papini's 1931 novel Gog.{{cite book |last=Orlandi |first=Daniela |year=2007 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=69ey6Z-05fMC&pg=PA1346 |chapter=Giovanni Papini (1881–1946) |editor-last=Marrone |editor-first=Gaetana |title=Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A–J |location=New York |publisher=Routledge |pages=1346–1347 |isbn=978-1-57958-390-3 }} It was awarded the {{ill|Premio Marzotto|it}}.{{cite book |last=Ridolfi |first=Roberto |year=1987 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6WWvFoPg0v8C&pg=PA211 |title=Vita di Giovanni Papini |language=it |page=211 |location=Rome |publisher=Ed. di Storia e Letteratura |isbn= }}
Picasso quotation
The book contains fictitious interviews with famous people including Adolf Hitler, Guglielmo Marconi, Frank Lloyd Wright, Salvador Dalí and Pablo Picasso. A self-critical comment from the book's version of Picasso was quoted by several publications as genuine. In this comment, Picasso says: "When I am alone with myself, I have not the courage to think of myself as an artist in the great and ancient sense of the term. Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were great painters; I am only a public entertainer who has understood his times and has exhausted as best he could the imbecility, the vanity, the cupidity of his contemporaries. Mine is a bitter confession, more painful than it may appear, but it has the merit of being sincere." Life, having published the quotation as genuine, published a correction in 1969 where it attributed it to Il libro nero and wrote that it reflects Papini's view of contemporaneous culture rather than Picasso's.{{cite news |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rFIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA18 |title=Apology for a False Picasso 'Quote' |newspaper=Life |date=17 January 1969 |page=18B }}
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