After a considerable period of reflection and organizational procedures, the Municipality of Galatians Mamertine he found the meeting point with his poet Nino Ferrauborn in 1923 and died in 1984, who has entered history and will remain, for Italy, one of the most illustrious and exciting poets of the century, already founder of the literary movement Ascendentism as well as founder and director of the valuable magazines “Selezione Poetica” and “Procellaria”, an appreciated and prolific poet with a light and incisive pen in which family affections, religious sentiment, passion and nature as friend and enemy, Nebrodi mountains and rivers intertwine.
The Ferraù family, by the will of his brother Giuseppe who has always devoted himself to meetings, literary salons and conferences and publications, with the intent of placing before everyone’s eyes the message left by his brother the poet, with the approval of his son Vincenzo Ferraù and all his relatives, has assigned the Ferraù family’s paternal home, in via San Sebastiano n. 7, where the poet was born and grew up and composed numerous poems, on loan for use to the Municipality of Galati Mamertino. The house is located a few steps from the central Piazza San Giacomo.
In recent days, with a ceremony held at the headquarters, the inauguration of what has become the “House Museum of the poet Nino Ferraù” took place. In the presence of the poet’s relatives, including his cousin and goddaughter Prof. Cettina Parafioriti, who brought greetings from Vincenzo, the poet’s son, reading a moving letter from him and his brother Giuseppe, the speech was followed by Prof. Pasquale Inferrera and the mayor Vincenzo Amadore. Also present at the inauguration were the archpriest Father Vincenzo Rigamo and the financier Cristian Parafioriti who lives in the North and has already collected numerous publications on the town of Galati Mamertino to which he is very attached.
The poet’s house, adequately restored, preserves everything that the owners left after having lived there for over a century, and was built by the poet’s grandfather who bore his same name, Nino Ferraù. Words of love and pain, of hope and trust have been written in the building.