“Will the PNRR be able to relaunch Italy?”, the meeting with the economist Gianfranco Viesti on Saturday 22 July for the literary review Agostiniani Libri, in Lecce

“Will the PNRR succeed in relaunching Italy?”, the meeting with the economist Gianfranco Viesti on Saturday 22 July for the literary exhibition Agostiniani Libri, in Lecce.

The third edition of continues Augustinian Books, literary review of the Municipality of Lecce, created in collaboration with associations, bookshops and entities active in the area, which is part of the programme Lecce on stage. Saturday 22th July (20pm – free entry) in the Augustinian Cloister (via Michele De Pietro 30) in Lecceeconomist Gianfranco Viesti, flanked by the mayor of Lecce Carlo Salvemini, the parliamentarian Claudio Stefanazzi and the journalist Carla Petrachi, will present his recent essay “Will the PNRR succeed in relaunching Italy?” (Donzelli). Two years after its formulation, the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, defined by many as a new Marshall Plan, is redesigning public policies in Italy. Gianfranco Viesti, one of our most authoritative economists, provides in this book anvery useful overall assessment based on a careful and detailed scrutiny of all its measures, which takes into account not only the text, but also all the complex, little-known implementation processes that have taken place and the prospects that arise for the full realization of the Plan.

The book can help all citizens to better understand what has happened and can happen. After an analysis of the program Next Generation Eu, considered very positively as a radical break with the past, Viesti retraces the phases of the drafting process of the Plan, whose main weakness, according to the author, lies in the lack of a unifying vision of the future. In the book they emerge the potential and limits of the Pnrr: its highly centralized structure and its implementation mechanisms, with the enormous power that they have concentrated in the hands of the ministers of the Draghi government. Among the aspects relating to implementation, the peculiar, positive role entrusted to municipal administrations emerges, compared to the more marginal role of the regions. Going into the merits of the Plan, Viesti illustrates and critically analyzes some of its main areas: from the strengthening of infrastructures, in particular the railways, to urban projects, which constitute an important novelty, to interventions for education, characterized instead by notable implementation problems, and measures for businesses, which are very rich but lack a strategic direction.

The picture that emerges shows the critical issues that have emerged in these first two years, very different from area to area and linked to both the definition and implementation of investments. The Pnrr, concludes Viesti, can represent a very useful reversal of direction compared to the austerity policies of the 1910s, but alone he cannot change Italy, because it does not address the main political issues at the root of its difficulties and inequalities. Gianfranco Viesti teaches Applied Economics in the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Bari Aldo Moro. Among his most recent volumes: “Journey to Italy. Tale of a difficult and beautiful country” (edited with B. Simili, il Mulino, 2017), “Towards the secession of the rich?” (Laterza, 2019), “Centres and suburbs. Europe, Italy and Southern Italy from the 2021th to the 2010st century" (Laterza, 2016). For Donzelli he published: “More work, more talents. Young people, women, the South. Responses to the crisis” (XNUMX), “Universities in decline. A survey of universities from North to South” (XNUMX).

Tuesday July 25 (20pm – free entry) Agostiniani Libri, in collaboration with Diffoniamo ideas of value, Conversations on the future and Libreria Liberrima, will host Francesca Giannone with “The postman” (North Editions). The author will present her lucky one debut novel, one of the most popular and best-selling books of the year and fresh winner of the Bancarella Prize, in conversation with the journalist Valeria Blanco (Nuovo Quotidiano di Puglia). Since its release in January, the novel - the rights to which were acquired by Lotus Production, a Leone Film Group company - has been consistently at the top of the charts with 14 editions in 6 months. The book is set in Salento in the summer of 1934. In Lizzanello, a small village of a few thousand souls, a bus stops in the main square. A couple gets out: he, Carlo, is a son of the South, and is happy to be back home; she, Anna, her wife, is as beautiful as a Greek statue, but sad and worried: what life awaits her in that unknown land? Even thirty years from that day, Anna will remain for everyone "the foreigner", the one who came from the North, the different one, who doesn't go to church, who always says what she thinks. And Anna, proud and angular, will never bend to the unwritten laws that imprison Southern women. She will also succeed thanks to the love that binds her to her husband, a love whose strength will be painfully clear to Carlo's older brother, Antonio , who fell in love with Anna the moment he saw her.

Then, in 1935, Anna does something truly revolutionary: she enters a postal competition, wins it and becomes Lizzanello's first postman. The news makes women turn up their noses and elicits derisive laughter from men. “It won't last,” someone sneers. And instead, for over twenty years, Anna will become the invisible thread that unites the inhabitants of the town. First on foot and then by bicycle, she will deliver letters from boys to the front, postcards from emigrants, missives from secret lovers. Without wanting it - but above all without the town wanting it - the postman will change many things in Lizzanello. Anna's is the story of a woman who wanted to live her life without conditioning, but it is also the story of the Greco family and Lizzanello, from the 30s to the 50s, passing through a world war and the demands feminists. And it is the story of two inseparable brothers, destined to love the same woman. Francesca Giannone, from Puglia, graduated in Communication Sciences and studied at the Experimental Center of Cinematography. Having moved to Bologna, she oversaw the cataloging of the thirty thousand volumes of the Luigi Bernardi Association and attended the two-year writing course of the «Fictions» Narration Workshop. You have published various stories in literary magazines, both paper and online. Having returned to live in Lizzanello, her town of origin in Salento, she continued to write and cultivate her other great passion, painting; as can be seen in the his site, his subject of choice is women.

Ad August the event (always starting at 20pm and not at 30pm as previously announced) will host Leonardo Palmisano (20 August) with “Betrayal is a crime – A complicated affair for the bandit Mazzacani” (Fandango), Chiara Valerio (2 August) with “Technology is religion” (Einaudi), the “God” of social media Alessandro Paolucci (3 August) with “Amazing history of philosophy” (il Saggiatore), Valerio Pascali and Alvise Sbraccia (4 August) with “The factory in prison and work outside. A case study on Doing business in Dozza" (Bologna University press), Mauro Favale author with Tommaso De Lorenzis (8 August) of the book "L'aspra massimo" (La Nave di Teseo), Michele Gaetano Malandrino (9 August) with “The law of the closed drawer” (Santelli), Carlo Romano (10 August) with “Valentina. Diary of a fake suicide” and “Irony of death” (Golem Edizioni).

After a short break, the meetings will resume (starting at 19pm) with Igiaba Scego (1 September) and his novel “Cassandra a Mogadishu” (Bompiani), Nando Dalla Chiesa (5 September) with “Legality is a feeling. Countercurrent manual of civic education" (Bompiani), Alain Elkann (7 September) with "Adriana and the others" (Bompiani), Gabriella Genisi (14 September) with her latest novel "L'angelo di Castelforte", set in Salento with the protagonist is the rebel carabiniera Chicca Lopez (Rizzoli), Sapo Matteucci (8 September) with “Per futili reasons” (La Nave di Teseo), a finalist novel for the Viareggio Rèpaci Prize and the “Megamark Foundation Prize – Incontri di Dialoghi”, the Latinist and writer Alessio Torino (date to be confirmed) with the novel “Cuori in full” (Mondadori).

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