Lecce: “Agostiniani Libri”, the summer literary festival of the Municipality, is underway.
From July to September many presentations of novels and essays
Lecce: “Agostiniani Libri”, the summer literary festival of the Municipality, is underway.
Chiara Valerio, Francesca Giannone, Gabriella Genisi, Igiaba Scego, Nando Dalla Chiesa, Alain Elkann, Alessandro Paolucci (known as @Dio, on social media), Giancarlo Viesti, Daniele Rielli, Diana Ligorio, Leonardo Palmisano, Mauro Favale, Sapo Matteucci, Alessio Turin, the secretary of the Stega Prize steering committee Stefano Petrocchi are some of the guests of the third edition of Agostiniani Libri. All summer long literary review of the Municipality of Lecce in collaboration with We spread valuable ideas and other associations, bookshops and entities active in the area, which is part of the Lecceinscena programme, will host in the Augustinian Complex (between the cloister and the garden of the Ognibene Library), a series of meetings and presentations of essays and novels with Apulian and female authors. national.
After the two previews di June with Nicolangelo Barletti and Anna Puricella and four serate of review of journalism and political communication “I didn't interrupt her“, on Friday 14 July at 20pm the cloister will host the presentation of the book “The invisible fire. Human story of a natural disaster” by Daniele Rielli (Rizzoli). The journalist will talk with Alessandra Beccarisi, professor of History of medieval philosophy at the University of Foggia. You can tell a ecological and social drama as if it were a pressing multi-voiced novel? That's what Rielli does. Trying to understand what is killing his family's olive trees, he reconstructs the events surrounding his arrival in Puglia of Xylella, a bacterium that has caused the most serious plant epidemic in the world. It all begins in Gallipoli, when the olive trees begin to dry up and die in a way never seen before. It sets in motion a whirlwind of events which picks up speed until it becomes unstoppable. The olive tree is the symbolic tree of Mediterranean civilization and is considered immortal, the squares are filled with demonstrators protesting against the containment measures and the judiciary indicts the scientists who discovered the disease: it is the perfect storm. Today at least 21 million olive trees - including many centuries-old and thousand-year-old trees, an irreplaceable heritage - are dead, it is as if the entire province of Lecce had been burned by a gigantic invisible fire.
Saturday 15 July, always at 20pm in the cloister, the author, writer, showrunner and screenwriter Diana Ligorio presenterinstead “Eyes of a wolf, heart of a dog. The invisible life of a DIA agent” (Bompiani) with the journalist Gabriele De Giorgi. He will intervene Matilde Montinaro, sister of Antonio Montinaro, Salento escort leader of Giovanni Falcone, who died in the Capaci massacre with the judge, his wife Francesca Morvillo and his two colleagues Vito Schifani and Rocco Dicillo. In the summer of 1992, after the Capaci and Via D'Amelio massacres, to respond to this very harsh attack the State was silently deploying a special body, born from a project by Giovanni Falcone himself: the DIA, Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate, which brings together the best men from all law enforcement agencies. I am men who leave their families to hunt for those who killed Falcone and Borsellino, live undercover in fourth-rate hotels, have rudimentary tools at their disposal but are animated by the supreme feeling of a mission that unites them like brothers. In this novel one of them finds the courage to talk about the investigations, the hours of listening to the intercepted voices, the adrenaline of the raids, the obsessions and emotions of those crucial days: he tells them to his son, who at that time was a child full of nostalgia for his father who was always distant. Back then, he told that child that he was a special animal, endowed with the ferocious eyes of a wolf but the faithful heart of a dog: today he explains to him how becoming invisible was the only way to protect him and his mother while he worked to capture the assassins of Giovanni Falcone. With precision and passion Diana Ligorio gives life to a novel that is at the same time an exciting investigative adventure and the heartbreaking journey into a relationship between a father and a son.
On Thursday 20 July, Agostiniani libri will continue with the now usual Strega Evening, promoted in collaboration with “Harmony. Narrations in the land of Otranto“, Idrusa Narrations and Bookshop Association. With the secretary of the steering committee Stefano Petrocchi and other guests we will talk about the winning novel of the latest edition of the literary prize, “Come d'aria” by Ada D'Adamo, an Abruzzo writer who passed away a few months ago, and the other finalist novels.
The exhibition will be held between July and August (always starting at 20pm) will then host the economist Giancarlo Viesti and his essay “Will the PNRR succeed in relaunching Italy” (July 22), the writer from Salento Francesca Giannone with his successful debut novel “The postman” (July 25), Leonardo Palmisano with the just released “Betrayal is a crime – A complicated affair for the bandit Mazzacani” (August 2), Clare Valerio with "Technology is religion” (3 August), the “God” of social media Alessandro Paolucci with "Amazing history of philosophy” (August 4) e Mauro Favale author with Tommaso De Lorenzis of the book “L'aspera season” (9 August).
After a short break, meetings will resume (starting at 19pm) with Igiaba Scego and his novel "Cassandra in Mogadishu" (September 1st), Nando Dalla Chiesa with "Legality is a feeling. Countercurrent civic education manual" (September 5st), Alain Elkann with "Adriana and the others" (September 7st), Sapo Matteucci with "For trivial reasons“, finalist novel of the Viareggio Rèpaci Prize (8 September) and Gabriella Genesis with his latest novel “The angel of Castelforte“, set in Salento starring the rebel policewoman Chicca Lopez (14 September), the Latinist and writer Alessio Turin with the novel "Hearts in full” (date to be confirmed).
The exhibition is completed with the space dedicated to local authors and publishers made available within the Augustinian Complex.
«Agostiniani Libri reaches its third edition – declares the Councilor for Culture Fabiana Cicirillo – with a new impetus, thanks to the collaboration with the association Let's spread valuable ideas, and by proposing a rich calendar of meetings with authors that will accompany us throughout the summer, ranging from novels and essays on current affairs. The Augustinian complex with the OgniBene library is for us the center of reading and local culture, increasingly known by the people of Lecce themselves as well as by tourists, thanks to the many initiatives it hosts daily. A place of community alive and experienced by many different generations, from children to the elderly, both in winter and summer».
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