Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo

Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo ("Not for money, not for love, nor heaven") is the title of an album released by Fabrizio De André. It was issued in 1971 by Produttori Associati and reissued several times by Ricordi and BMG. It is a concept album based on the Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters. The co-author of the music is composer Nicola Piovani, who later won an Academy award for his soundtrack for Roberto Benigni's Life is beautiful. The title itself is a citation from the first poem in the Spoon River Anthology, The Hill:

Drinking, rioting, thinking neither of wife nor kin,
Nor gold, nor love, nor heaven?

Track listing

1. La collina (The Hill) (4:03)
2. Un matto (A madman) 2:35)
3. Un giudice (A judge) (2:55)
4. Un blasfemo (A blasphemer) (2:59)
5. Un malato di cuore (A sufferer of heart) (4:18)
6. Un medico (A doctor) (2:39)
7. Un chimico (A chemist) (3:00)
8. Un ottico (An optician) (4:35)
9. Il suonatore Jones (Fiddler Jones) (4:25)

The songs

Each song is based on a poem from the Spoon River Anthology.

• "La collina" is based on "The Hill"
• "Un matto" is based on "Frank Drummer", in which a man memorizes the Encyclopædia Britannica and is considered crazy by the people of Spoon River.
• "Un Giudice" is based on Selah Lively, the story of a midget who studies law and becomes a judge to get revenge on the people who made fun of him all his life.
• "Un blasfemo" is based on "Wendell P. Bloyd".
• "Un malato di cuore" is based on "Francis Turner", in which a man dies of a heart attack while giving his first kiss.
• "Un medico" is based on "Dr. Siegfried Iseman", the story of a doctor who wants to cure poor people without receiving payment.
• "Un chimico" is based on "Trainor, the Chemist", in which a chemist, who doesn't understand romantic relationships but instead loves the chemical elements, dies while executing an experiment.
• "Un ottico" is based on "Dippold the Optician", the story of an optician who wants to create special glasses which project strange visions.
• "Il suonatore Jones" is based on "Fiddler Jones".

External links

• (Italian) Spoon River Anthology and Fabrizio De André