Signora Bovary

Signora Bovary
Studio album by Francesco Guccini
Released	1987
Genre
Length	38 min.
Label	EMI
Francesco Guccini chronology
Guccini (1983) Signora Bovary (1987) (1988)

Signora Bovary is an album of Italian singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini. It was released in 1987 by EMI.

The album[]

"Signora Bovary" is a poetic variation of Gustave Flaubert's 1857 novel Madame Bovary. "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. The long suite "Keaton" was co-written by Claudio Lolli, 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.

Personnel[]

• Francesco Guccini - voice and guitar
• - guitars
• Ares Tavolazzi - 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)