Domenico Benedetto D’Agostino with the book “Quattro Apocalissi” qed Edizioni The winner of the Literiomuricello 2025. The author won the winged Pegaso created by Maestro Maurizio Carnevali with an experimental cut work in ancient language. To bring the volume literary criticism and blogger Ippolita Luzzo to the final.
“He won an extraordinary book for the news it represents in the cultural world. Writing a volume in the vulgar of the seventeenth century is a singular and meritorious operation” commented the artistic director of the Antonio Chieffallo prize.
The thirteenth edition of the prize, which took place in San Mango d’Aquino divided into two evenings conducted by the journalist Ugo Floro, once again collected a large public participation
Several Muricello prizes delivered, in addition to the literary one. Among these, the one in the memory of Lorenzo Pataro, one of the rising stars of contemporary poetry recently who disappeared, delivered to his father Fernando.
Space then to the social with the awarding of those who distinguished themselves “beyond prejudice” – leitmotif of the thirteenth edition – spending themselves in favor of the inclusion of the most fragile.
The entrepreneur Eugenio Iannella who in Romagna has started a catering activity in which to celebrate, in addition to taste, social inclusion by giving employment to disabled people; the president of Arci Cosenza Silvio Cilento, founder of the first CAD LGBT of Calabria (a reception, listening, consultancy and support service for LGBTQIA+ people who have suffered discrimination, violence or live in fragility conditions); The Solidal Sound Band of the Solidarity Clinic “First the Last” of Lamezia Terme who performs in order to make known a reality that provides assistance, visits and support for the indigent in the homonymous clinic.
Award then to the excellence with Walter Brenner, book and publisher of Jewish origins son of an internal of the Ferramonti concentration camp. Brenner has chosen the path of culture as a business and as a memory; His is a bookshop full of treasures, as well as the works he is publisher. Muricello Prize also to Domenico Piraina, of Calabrian origins, currently among the most important cultural managers in Italy, current director of Palazzo Reale and manager of the culture sector of the Municipality of Milan.
Awarded Sasà Calabrese, multi -instrumentalist, singer and author who with his art has ranked the Calabrian borders by telling the most authentic Calabria and Daniele Piervincenzi, war reporter and investigative journalist for the courage and integrity with which he carries out his profession.
Among the most intense moments of this edition, the memory of Saverio Strati and the narrative of her anthropological realism traced by the writer and nephew Palma Comandé and the monologue on gender violence played by Annalisa Insardà. But also the declamation of the poems of Lorenzo Pataro by Francesco Rizzo and Emanuela Stella, the musical interludes of Santino Cardamone and Eleonora Anania and the chromatic and diatonic accordionist Antonio Grosso.
To close the second annoying evening of the activist of the Red Agende Movement Silvia Camerino dedicated to Paolo Borsellino.