Region, last day at the Book Fair. Capponi: “Calabria was told without stereotypes, without filters, with authenticity”

A precious occasion that of Turin, in which they participated Luigi Francopresident of the Centenary Strati Committee and editorial director Rubbettino, the writer Gioacchino Criacothe writer and nephew of layers, Palma ComandèAnd Vanessa ScogiRai author, to bring the work of an author to the center of the national discussion who has been able to transmit messages of universal value on the travagli of modern man, through the constant story of his Calabria, with stories of emigration, identity and redemption.

On site the documentary “Saverio Strati between radio and television” produced by Calabria Film Commission and Rai.

In the Calabria stand, the anthropologist and writer also Vito Tetiwho, together with the commissioner Capponi, the writers Angela Bubba And Demetrio Paolin and to the journalist Annarosa Macrì, He presented his political-cultural project “Let’s start from Alvaro.

“The project – explained Teti – began at the La Sapienza University of Rome when, together with the center of anthropology” Raffaele Lombardi Satriani “we celebrated 130 years since the birth of the writer and, in view of 2026, the 70th year since his death. There was also president Roberto Occhiuto and, that day, a group of writers, anthropologists, cultural journalists and scholars of all disciplines was formed. Interest of Alvaro. politics that starts from the knowledge of places, people and reality “.

The true story of a survivor to the ‘ndrangheta was told firsthand by the entrepreneur and collaborate with justice, Antonino De Masi With the presentation of the book “Inferi”.

“I wrote a book that tells the underworld that I crossed but also says that I won, not as a hero but as a normal person who did only his duty with the dignity of a free man. These things today can tell them because I also had support from the political class and by the president Occhiuto to whom I talked about the law I wrote – which was approved unanimously – which establishes that the entrepreneurs who denounce in the privileged public tenders. and Calabria is the first region to have approved the ‘De Masi’ law.

At the meeting on linguistic minorities (Occitan, Arbëreshë, Grecanica), with Professor Francesco Credi e The journalist Raffaele Nisticòthe commissioner Capponi said that “the linguistic minorities and the cultural diversity they undergo are the subject of attention and care by the Government and the Regional Council” as on the other hand contemplated in the Constitution and Statute of the Calabria Region “. There are three communities that currently use their language, Grecanica in some Municipalities, especially Bova Roghudi and Condofuri, of the Southern Band of the Province of Reggio, The Occitanic in Piedmontese guard, the Arbëreshë, the most widespread, in many centers of the provinces of Catanzaro Cosenza and Crotone.

Of “being authors in Calabria” spoke Domenico Darathe author born in Girifalco, the contemporary Calabrian today more read in the national field, in the standings with his latest novel “Liberata”. “Authentic writing – he underlined – cannot escape the imprinting received in the moments and situations experienced since the period of the first formation, the discovery of the surrounding world in childhood and early youth, of the first cultural contributions, the characters even minutes that meet at home and in the streets of their neighborhood. Only from this approach and from the subsequent elaboration does the detail open to the universal”.