#Antonio Pagliaro

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ARNAS Garibaldi di Catania, eseguito il primo intervento di chirurgia robotica

A Catania il primo intervento di chirurgia robotica. E’ stato effettuato con il Robot Da Vinci presso l’Arnas Garibaldi. L’intervento, della durata di circa due ore, è stato una Prostatectomia radicale Robotica in un paziente di 60 anni affetto da tumore prostatico. A compiere l’intervento è stata l’equipe urologica del Prof. Mario Falsaperla, direttore dell’unità operativa complessa di Urologia coadiuvato da Marinella Finocchiaro e Davide Di Mauro e dal Team anestesiologico diretto da Giuseppe Calabrese, insieme a Luciana Raciti e ad Antonio Macri con il supporto infermieristico degli strumentisti Diego Fortunato e Rita Caruso e degli infermieri di Sala Antonio Lundari, Roberta Pagliaro e la organizzazione preliminare dalla IP Adriana Brandimonte. Il robot è in grado di moltiplicare fino a dieci volte la normale visione dell’occhio umano e di utilizzare movimenti naturali simili a quelli delle mani e delle braccia dell’uomo. Il robot Da Vinci è formato da una console chirurgica posizionata esternamente al campo sterile. Attraverso la console il chirurgo opera per mezzo di due manipolatori simili ad un joystick e di pedali che guidano la strumentazione e osserva il campo operatorio tramite il monitor di un endoscopio 3D. Read the full article

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Palermo, the second day of Isola Robinson at La Via dei Librai: Renato Cortese and the cold houses

From comics, narrated among others by Marco Rizzo and Lelio Bonaccorso, to science with the astrophysicist Antonio Pagliaro and the writer Salvatore Sanfilippo. And again the cold cases with Renato Cortese, Gian Mauro Costa and Roberto Leone and the prison emergency with the writer Sandro Bonvissuto and the director of the Malaspina juvenile prison Clara Pangaro. Here she is second day of Isola…

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I Hindu Nationalists and Italian Fascism

II Moonje’s Plans for Militarising Hindus

III Eve of Second World War

After Moonje's trip to Italy there was no further direct contact between exponents of the main Hindu organisations and the Italian government. However, by the end of the 1930s Italian representatives in India established some connections with the extremist fringes of Hindu nationalism. The Italian consulate in Bombay was very active in seeking contacts with the local political milieu. The Italian diplomatic mission in Bombay was part of a network linking the Italian consulates in Bombay and Calcutta with the radical movements of Maharashtra and Bengal (author's PhD thesis, pp 276-79).

From June 1938 the consulate in Bombay started to 'recruit' as many Indian students as possible for Italian language courses, with the purpose of indoctrinating them with propaganda in favour of Italy and fascism. The person in charge of this activity was Mario Carelli, sent from Rome with the specific purpose of organising and managing the Italian activities in Bombay. Mario Carelli was secretary and librarian at the Institute for Middle and Far East (ISMEO), founded in Rome in 1933 under the auspices of the Italian government, and presided by Giovanni Gentile.^10

Among the students, one Madhav Kashinath Damley was particularly promising. Following Carelli's suggestion, Damley translated into Marathi Mussolini's Doctrine of Fascism and, in summer 1939, published it as a series of articles in a weekly he founded in June of the same year. The name of the magazine was Lokhandi Morcha (Iron Front). It published also, as a five parts article, a booklet by Antonio Pagliaro entitled II Fascismo contro il comunismo (Fascism against Communism) and an article by Mario Carelli entitled 'The Institution of the House of the Fasci and Corporations'.^11

In the autumn of 1939, a particularly radical article published in the Lokhandi Morcha attracted the attention of the police. The result was that Damley, who had already been noticed by the agents, was forced to suspend the magazine and pay a fine. The refusal to pay determined the cessation of the publication of the Lokhandi Morcha. Damley was a chitpavan brahmin from Pune, resident in Bombay. His father owned the printing house where the magazine was printed. According to the police,

He [Damley] holds extreme political views and believes himself to be a follower of B G Tilak...He openly says that he is enamoured of the history of Italy and Nazi Germany (MSA, Home Special Department, 830(1)1939, note dated July 11, 1939).

Even more meaningful is Damley' s description by the Italian consul:

Holding fascist ideas, he founded an organisation called Iron Guards, modelled on ours, but adapted to Indian peculiar conditions. He and his friends wore the black shirt: India's first black shirts. The development of this organisation was compromised by the outbreak of the war.^12

The influence of fascist ideology and practice must have gone far beyond the limits of the main organisations of Hindu militant nationalism and must have extended to the wide and intricate net of secondary militant groups and centres of physical education or paramilitary training. This is shown by the example of the Swastik League, founded on March 10, 1929 by M R Jayakar - who became its president - and by other local personalities. In organising the Swastik League, Jayakar, who had a prominent position within the Hindu Mahasabha, drew some inspiration from the fascist paramilitary organisations. In his own words,

in the near future, our GOC... intends to form a cadet corps, consisting of boys between the age of 15 and 18 years. The training which these cadets will receive will ultimately enable them to join the League's volunteer corps... This reminds us of a picture published in the Sunday Chronicle on the 28th instant, showing two of Sgr Mussolini's "Baby Soldiers" remaining on sentry duty at the entrance of their annual encampment at Camp Dux, where the young members of the Avan Guardista, (sic) a youth organisation of Italy for boys from 14 to 18 years of age, get first hand acquaintance with the tools of war. Neither we nor our cadets can expect to be able to get such a direct training, but all the same, the efforts to train a boy in military discipline will never be wasted and will in course of time make that boy an ideal volunteer (NAI, Jayakar papers, microfilm, rn 13, Swastik Herald, of November 7, 1934).

In 1940, when nazism manifested its real nature and the swastika became an inauspicious symbol, the organisation felt obliged to dissociate from nazism:

Hitler discriminates between Aryans and non-Aryans, between Germans and Jews. The League, though it is a purely Hindu organisation, does not make a difference between the Hindus and the non-Hindus... Hitler has many enemies, the League cannot have any. He is revengeful; the League is forgiving and tolerant. He is violent and wild; the League is not. He thinks and acts in terms of destruction. He has destroyed many families, many nations: nay, the peace of the world. Armed to teeth he is running amuck. The League stands for construction. He is an enemy of humanity. The League is a saviour of humanity. It has saved thousands of human lives. Its ambulance is most efficient (NAI, ibid, Article entitled 'Hitler and the Swastik League' in Swastik Herald, July-August 1940).

IV Savarkar and Nazism

V Waiting for the Right Enemy

VI Conclusions

Notes

Hindutva's Foreign Tie-up in the 1930s

Archival Evidence

To understand militant Hinduism, one must examine its domestic roots as well as foreign influence. In the 1930s Hindu nationalism borrowed from European fascism to transform 'different' people into 'enemies'. Leaders of militant Hinduism repeatedly expressed their admiration for authoritarian leaders such as Mussolini and Hitler and for the fascist model of society. This influence continues to the present day. This paper presents archival evidence on the would-be collaborators.

By Marzia Casolari

Source: Economic and Political Weekly, Jan. 22-28, 2000, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Jan. 22-28, 2000), pp. 218-228

'Fascist' was in Sumit Sarkar's words, "till the other day a mere epithet" ('The Fascism of the Sangh Parivar', Economic and Political Weekly, January 30, 1993, p 163). It has come to define the ideology and practice of the Hindu militant organisations. It is a common place, accepted by their opponents, as well as by those who have a critical, but not necessarily negative, view of Hindu fundamentalism. Defining the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) and, in general, the organisations of militant Hinduism I as undemocratic, with authoritarian, paramilitary, radical, violent tendencies and a sympathy for fascist ideology and practice, has been a major concern for many politically oriented scholars and writers. This has been the case with the literature which started with Gandhi's assassination and continues up to the present day with works such as Amartya Sen's India at Risk (The New York Review of Books, April 1993) and Christophe Jaffrelot's The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India (Viking, New Delhi, 1996), the latest book published on the subject, or the well known Khaki Shorts and Saffron Flags (Orient Longman, New Delhi, 1993), which came out soon after the destruction of the Babri masjid. As a result, the fascist ideological background of Hindu fundamentalism is taken for granted, never proved by systematic analysis. This is an outcome that is, to a certain extent, explained by the fact that most of the above-mentioned authors are political scientists and not historians.

It is a fact that many of those who witnessed the growth of Hindu radical forces in the years around the second world war were already convinced of the Sangh's fascist outlook. Particularly acute was the perception that the Congress had of these organisations and their character. There is no need to mention the already well known opinion of Nehru, who, right from the beginning, had pointed at these organisations as communalist and fascist.

Less well known is the fact that, as shown by a confidential report circulated within the Congress most probably at the time of the first ban of the RSS, after Gandhi's assassination, the similarity between the character of the RSS and that of fascist organisations was already taken for granted. In fact, the report itself states that the RSS

...Started in Nagpur some sort of Hindu Boys Scout movement. Gradually it developed into a communal militarist organisation with violent tendencies.

The RSS has been purely Maharashtrian brahmin organisation. The non-brahmin Maharashtrians who constitute the bulk of C P and Maharashtra have no sympathy with it.

Even in the other provinces the chief organisers and whole-time workers will be found to be inevitably Maharashtrian brahmins.

Through the RSS the Maharashtrian brahmins have been dreaming of establishing in India 'a Peshwa Raj' after the withdrawal of Britishers. The RSS flag is the Bhagwa Flag of the Peshwas - Maharashtrian rulers [who] were the last to be conquered by the British - and after the termination of British rule in India, the Maharashtrians should be vested with political powers.

The RSS practises secret and violent methods which promote 'fascism'. No regard is paid to truthful means and constitutional methods.

There is no constitution of the organisation; its aims and objects have never been clearly defined. The general public is usually told that its aim is only physical training, but the real aims are not conveyed even to the rank and file of the RSS members. Only its 'inner circle' is taken into a confidence.

There are no records or proceedings of the RSS organisation, no membership registers are maintained. There are also no records of its income and the expenditure. The RSS is thus strictly secret as regards its organisation. It has consequently... (National Archives of India (NAI), Sardar Patel Correspondence, microfilm, reel no 3, 'A Note on the RSS', undated). Unfortunately the document stops abruptly here, but it contains enough evidence of the reputation the RSS already had by the late 1940s.

This document, however, is by no means exceptional. An accurate search of the primary sources produced by the organisations of Hindu nationalism, as well as by their opponents and by the police, is bound to show the extent and the importance of the connections between such organisations and Italian fascism. In fact the most important organisations of Hindu nationalism not only adopted fascist ideas in a conscious and deliberate way, but this happened also because of the existence of direct contacts between the representatives of the main Hindu organisations and fascist Italy.

To demonstrate this, I will reconstruct the context from which arose the interest of Hindu radicalism in Italian fascism right from the early 1920s. This interest was commonly shared in Maharashtra, and must have inspired B S Moonje's trip to Italy in 1931. The next step will be to examine the effects of that trip, namely how B S Moonje tried to transfer fascist models to Hindu society and to organise it militarily, according to fascist patterns. An additional aim of this paper is to show how, about the end of the 1930s, the admiration for the Italian regime was commonly shared by the different streams of Hindu nationalism and the main Hindu leaders.

Particular attention will be devoted to the attitude adopted by the main Hindu organisations during the second world war. During those crucial years, Hindu nationalism seemed to uneasily oscillate between a conciliatory attitude towards the British, and a sympathy for the dictators. This is in fact far from surprising because - as will be shown - in those years, militant Hindu organisations were preparing and arming themselves to fight the so-called internal enemies, rather than the British.

More generally, the aim of this paper is to disprove Christophe Jaffrelot's thesis that there is a sharp distinction between nazi and fascist ideology on one side and RSS on the other as far as the concept of race and the centrality of the leader are concerned.^2

I. Hindu Nationalists and Italian Fascism

None of the works mentioned above, Jaffrelot's included, deals with what I consider a most important problem, namely, the existence of direct contacts between the representatives of the fascist regime, including Mussolini and Hindu nationalists. These contacts demonstrate that Hindu nationalism had much more than an abstract interest in the ideology and practice of fascism.

The interest of Indian Hindu nationalists in fascism and Mussolini must not be considered as dictated by an occasional curiosity, confined to a few individuals, rather, it should be considered as the culminating result of the attention that Hindu nationalists, especially in Maharashtra, focused on Italian dictatorship and its leader. To them, fascism appeared to be an example of conservative revolution. This concept was discussed at length by the Marathi press, right from the early phase of the Italian regime.

From 1924 to 1935 Kesari regularly published editorials and articles about Italy, fascism and Mussolini. What impressed the Marathi journalists was the socialist origin of fascism and the fact that the new regime seemed to have transformed Italy from a backward country to a first class power. Indians could not know, then, that, behind the demagogic rhetoric of the regime, there was very little substance.

Moreover, the Indian observers were convinced that fascism had restored order in a country previously upset by political tensions. In a series of editorials, Kesari described the passage from liberal government to dictatorship as a shift from anarchy to an orderly situation, where social struggles had no more reason to exist.^3 The Marathi newspaper gave considerable space to the political reforms carried out by Mussolini, in particular the substitution of the election of the members of parliament with their nomination (ibid, January 17, 1928) and the replacement of parliament itself with the Great Council of Fascism. Mussolini's idea was the opposite of that of democracy and it was expressed by the dictator's principle, according to which 'one man's government is more useful and more binding' for the nation than the democratic institutions (ibid, July 17, 1928).%4 Is all this not reminiscent of the principle of 'obedience to one leader' ('ek chalak anuvartitva') followed by the RSS?

Finally, a long article of August 13, 1929, 'Italy and the Young Generations', stated that the Italian young generation had succeeded the old one to lead the country. That had resulted in the 'fast ascent of Italy in every field'. The article went on to describe at length the organisation of the Italian society according to fascist models. The principal reasons of the discipline of the Italian youths were strong religious feelings, widespread among the population, attachment to the family, and the respect of traditional values: no divorce, no singles, no right to vote for women, whose only duty was to sit at home, by the fireplace. The article focused then on the fascist youth organisations, the Balilla and the Avanguardisti.

One may wonder how the Indian journalists could be so well informed about what was going on in Italy. Very possibly, among their sources there was a pamphlet in English, published by an Italian editor in 1928, entitled The Recent Laws for the Defence of the State (copy in NAI, Foreign and Political Department, 647G, 1927). Emphasised, right from the beginning, was the importance of the National Militia, defined as "the bodyguard of the revolution". The booklet continued with the description of the restrictive measures adopted by the regime: a ban on the "subversive parties", limitations to the press, expulsion of "disaffected persons" from public posts, and, finally, the death sentence.

Significantly, the shift from the liberal phase to fascism is described by the pamphlet in strikingly similar terms to those employed by the above-mentioned articles:

This step [the shift to fascism] has struck a death blow to the thread-bare theories of Italian liberalism, according to which the sovereign state must observe strict neutrality towards all political associations and parties. This theory explains why in Italy the ship of state was drifting before the wind, ready to sink in the vortex of social dissolution or to be wrecked on the rocks of financial disaster.

Another inspiring source of the literature published in Kesari must have been the work by D V Tahmankar, the correspondent of the Marathi newspaper from London and admirer of the Italian dictator. In 1927 Tahmankar published a book entitled Muslini ani Fashismo, (Mussolini and Fascism), a biography of the dictator, with several references to the organisation of the fascist state, to the fascist social system, to the fascist ideology, and to Italy's recent past. An entire chapter, the last, was devoted to description of fascist society and its institutions, especially the youth organisations.

One can easily come to the conclusion that, by the late 1920s, the fascist regime and Mussolini had considerable popularity in Maharashtra. The aspects of fascism which appealed most to Hindu nationalists were, of course, both the militarisation of society and what was seen as the real transformation of society, exemplified by the shift from chaos to order. The anti-democratic system was considered as a positive alternative to democracy which was seen as a typically British value.

Such literature made an implicit comparison between fascism and the Italian Risorgimento. The latter's influence on Indian nationalism, both moderate and radical, is well known.^5 However, whereas the Risorgimento appealed to both moderates and extremists, fascism appealed only to the radicals, who considered it as the continuation of the Risorgimento and a phase of the rational organisation of the state.

The first Hindu nationalist who came in contact with the fascist regime and its dictator was B S Moonje, a politician strictly related to the RSS. In fact, Moonje had been Hedgewar's mentor, the two men were related by an intimate friendship. Moonje's declared intention to strengthen the RSS and to extend it as a nationwide organisation is well known. Between February and March 1931, on his return from the round table conference, Moonje made a tour of Europe, which included a long stop-over in Italy. There he visited some important military schools and educational institutions. The highlight of the visit was the meeting with Mussolini. An interesting account of the trip and the meeting is given in Moonje's diary, and takes 13 pages (Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML), Moonje papers, microfilm, m 1).^6

The Indian leader was in Rome during March 15 to 24, 1931. On March 19, in Rome, he visited, among others, the Military College, the Central Military School of Physical Education, the Fascist Academy of Physical Education, and, most important, the Balilla and Avanguardisti organisations. These two organisations, which he describes in more than two pages of his diary, were the keystone of the fascist system of indoctrination - rather than education - of the youths. Their structure is strikingly similar to that of the RSS. They recruited boys from the age of six, up to 18: the youths had to attend weekly meetings, where they practised physical exercises, received paramilitary training and performed drills and parades.

According to the literature promoted by the RSS and other Hindu fundamentalist organisations and parties, the structure of the RSS was the result of Hedgewar's vision and work. However Moonje played a crucial role in moulding the RSS along Italian (fascist) lines. The deep impression left on Moonje by the vision of the fascist organisation is confirmed by his diary:

The Balilla institutions and the conception of the whole organisation have appealed to me most, though there is still not discipline and organisation of high order. The whole idea is conceived by Mussolini for the military regeneration of Italy. Italians, by nature, appear ease-loving and non-martial like the Indians generally. They have cultivated, like Indians, the work of peace and neglected the cultivation of the art of war. Mussolini saw the essential weakness of his country and conceived the idea of the Balilla organisation...Nothing better could have been conceived for the military organisation of Italy...The idea of fascism vividly brings out the conception of unity amongst people...India and particularly Hindu India need some such institution for the military regeneration of the Hindus: so that the artificial distinction so much emphasised by the British of martial and non-martial classes amongst the Hindus may disappear. Our institution of Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh of Nagpur under Dr Hedgewar is of this kind, though quite independently conceived. I will spend the rest of my life in developing and extending this Institution of Dr Hedgewar all throughout the Maharashtra and other provinces.

He continues describing drills and uniforms:

I was charmed to see boys and girls well dressed in their naval and military uniforms undergoing simple exercises of physical training and forms of drill.

Definitely more meaningful is the report of the meeting with Mussolini. On the same day, March 19, 1931 at 3 pm, in Palazzo Venezia, the headquarters of the fascist government, he met the Italian dictator. The meeting is recorded in the diary on March 20, and it is worth reproducing the complete report.

...As soon as I was announced at the door, he got up and walked up to receive me. I shook hands with him saying that I am Dr Moonje. He knew everything about me and appeared to be closely following the events of the Indian struggle for freedom. He seemed to have great respect for Gandhi. He sat down in front of me on another chair in front of his table and was conversing with me for quite half an hour. He asked me about Gandhi and his movement and pointedly asked me a question "If the Round Table Conference will bring about peace between India and England". I said that if the British would honestly desire to give us equal status with other dominions of the Empire, we shall have no objection to remain peacefully and loyally within the Empire; otherwise the struggle will be renewed and continued. Britain will gain and be able to maintain her premier position amongst the European Nation (sic) if India is friendly and peaceful towards her and India cannot be so unless she is given Dominion Status on equal terms with other Dominions. Signor Mussolini appeared impressed by this remark of mine. Then he asked me if I have visited the University. I said I am interested in the military training of boys and have been visiting the Military Schools of England, France and Germany. I have now come to Italy for the same purpose and I am very grateful to say that the Foreign Office and the War Office have made good arrangements for my visiting these schools. I just saw this morning and afternoon the Balilla and the Fascist Organisations and I was much impressed. Italy needs them for her development and prosperity. I do not see anything objectionable though I have been frequently reading in the newspapers not very friendly criticisms about them and about your Excellency also. Signor Mussolini: What is your opinion about them? Dr Moonje: Your Excellency, I am much impressed. Every aspiring and growing Nation needs such organisations. India needs them most for her military regeneration. During the British Domination of the last 150 years Indians have been waved away from the military profession but India now desires to prepare herself for undertaking the responsibility for her own defence and I am working for it. I have already started an organisation of my own, conceived independently with similar objectives. I shall have no hesitation to raise my voice from the public platform both in India and England when occasion may arise in praise of your Balilla and Fascist organisations. I wish them good luck and every success. Signor Mussolini - who appeared very pleased - said - Thanks but yours is an uphill task. However I wish you every success in return. Saying this he got up and I also got up to take his leave.

The description of the Italian journey includes information regarding fascism, its history, the fascist 'revolution', etc, and continues for two more pages. One can wonder at the association between B S Moonje and the RSS, but if we think that Moonje had been Hedgewar' s mentor, the association will be much clearer.^7 The intimate friendship between Moonje and Hedgewar and the former's declared intention to strengthen the RSS and to extend it as a nationwide organisation prove a strict connection between Moonje and the RSS. Moreover, it makes sense to think that the entire circle of militant Hinduism must have been influenced by Moonje's Italian experience.

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“Perché una storia così, una storia così terribile, non era mai stata raccontata?”. Tre domande ad Antonio Pagliaro

Antonio, tu hai scritto in prevalenza thriller/noir ambientati in Sicilia: cosa ti ha spinto questa volta a indagare e raccontare la vicenda realmente accaduta di tre bambine uccise a Marsala negli anni ’70?

Fra i thriller, che però preferisco chiamare noir, c’era già stata nel 2010 la parentesi di Giapponese cannibale, un breve true crime che racconta la storia di Issei Sagawa. Già allora mi resi conto che raccontare (e anche leggere) storie vere, “trascinare la realtà dentro i confini della narrativa” come dice Carrère, è la cosa che mi piace di più. Credo che sia la cosa più difficile e affascinante. Da allora avrei scritto solo true crime se avessero un mercato almeno decente. Invece no, non so se la gente non ne legga perché non se ne pubblicano (quei pochi che si pubblicano sono spesso pessimi, io stesso faccio grande fatica a trovarne di buoni in italiano, mentre nel mercato anglosassone sono molti), oppure non se ne pubblicano perché la gente non li legge (in questo caso: come fanno gli editori a saperlo?). La storia, poi, è una storia di cui avevo sbiaditi ricordi. Magari non della storia mentre stava avvenendo, in fondo avevo tre anni, ma di ciò che accadde dopo e durò per anni, le indagini, gli arresti, i processi. Ci sono, nella mia memoria, pezzi di telegiornale, prime pagine con caratteri cubitali, genitori che mormorano e poi si zittiscono. Qualche anno fa avrei voluto leggerne, ma ho scoperto che in fondo nessuno l’aveva raccontata dall’inizio alla fine. Sì, c’è uno splendido reportage di Vincenzo Consolo, ma è solo il racconto di una parte del secondo processo. Perché una storia così, probabilmente la storia più terribile mai accaduta in Sicilia, e in Sicilia di storie terribili ne sono successe, non era mai stata raccontata? Ho provato a farlo io.

Il libro si colloca tra thriller e reportage: la narrazione è condotta con la mano esperta di chi sa mantenere alta la tensione, pur nella ricchezza di riferimenti processuali e di ricostruzione precisa non solo dei fatti, ma anche del quadro complessivo, non solo siciliano, ma italiano, nel quale si sono svolti. Quanto tempo hai impiegato per scriverlo e quanto spazio hai riservato all’immaginazione rispetto ai fatti di cronaca?

C’è un tempo di gestazione, lunghissimo, in cui ho raccolto materiale e idee. Molti anni. Un tempo più breve in cui ho incontrato persone che in qualche modo erano state parte della storia. Poi la scrittura non ha preso molto tempo, alcuni mesi. Ho cercato di essere fedele a quanto davvero successo. Non sempre questo è stato possibile: sia perché a volte le cronache del tempo erano contraddittorie, sia perché molte cose che accadono e che sono documentate hanno bisogno di essere “raccordate”, e i raccordi bisogna inventarseli. Però dopo tanto studio, i personaggi, che in realtà sono persone, li conosci e capisci anche come si muovono, come parlano, come agiscono.

Sui fatti, siamo negli anni ’70, irrompe la TV: Rischiatutto, Canzonissima, il Festival di Sanremo. È il primo caso che si impose all’attenzione anche grazie alla televisione? Quanto ha influito, se ha influito, la diffusione mediatica?

Secondo me non è il primo caso che si impose all’attenzione grazie alla televisione. Il televisore era ancora un bene di lusso, si guardava per lo più nei circoli, trasmetteva poche ore al giorno e non aveva ancora scoperto la cronaca morbosa. La gente guardava “Rischiatutto”, non “Chi l’ha visto?”. I marsalesi seguivano il caso alla radio e sui quotidiani, ma soprattutto nelle piazze, dove c’erano grandi assemblee. Per molti, per i più poveri, la piazza era l’unico modo di avere notizie. Questo poi aveva una conseguenza nefasta: queste folle diventavano facilmente folle nere, assetate di vendetta contro il primo malcapitato. La tv cambierà tutto, credo, con la tragedia di Vermicino, ma Marsala accade dieci anni prima.

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L’autore: Antonio Pagliaro. Palermitano, è autore dei romanzi Il sangue degli altri (Sironi, 2007), I cani di via Lincoln (Laurana, 2010), La notte del gatto nero (Guanda, 2012), Il bacio della bielorussa (Guanda, 2015) e del racconto lungo Il giapponese cannibale (Senzapatria, 2010). Ha curato per l’editore Laurana l’antologia Palermo criminale. Il grande romanzo della città (2014). Il suo sito web è antoniopagliaro.com

La lettura. Un true crime, come lo ha definito l’autore nell’intervista: un genere poco praticato in Italia e di conseguenza poco frequentato dai lettori. In effetti Storia terribile delle bambine di Marsala è un true crime nella misura in cui racconta la vicenda del Mostro di Marsala che nell’autunno del 1971 uccise tre bambine di nove, sette e cinque anni: un crimine orrendo che all’epoca fece scalpore. Tuttavia, pur con la veridicità degli eventi e i riferimenti costanti alla cronaca dei fatti, nonché a quelli processuali (che sono riportati con dovizia di particolari) Antonio Pagliaro costruisce una narrazione rapida, sostenuta da una prosa asciutta dal ritmo incalzante, calibrata perfettamente; non mi sono distratta neanche un attimo, né mai staccata dalla pagina. L’immersione totale nella vicenda, che dipinge un quadro non solo del fatto di cronaca, ma di una città, Marsala (“una città povera, con il reddito pro-capite tra i più bassi d’Italia”) della Sicilia e di un’Italia intera, lascia lo spazio alla riflessione, al dubbio, quando “la storia semplice” di memoria “sciasciana” si complica e ci si rende conto che verità processuale e verità storica non sono sempre sullo stesso piano e non sempre coincidono. All’epoca (come nell’altro famoso caso del Mostro di Firenze) sono in pochi e credere che Michele Vinci, zio di una delle vittime, abbia agito da solo e nel corso del tempo emergono dettagli sempre pi�� inquietanti, alcuni rivelati dallo stesso Vinci, che prima afferma, poi nega, racconta storie sempre diverse. Chi c’è davvero dietro quel delitto? Orge sataniche che avrebbero coinvolto qualche nome importante? La mafia? Un complotto? Un avvertimento? Persone che non possono essere infangate da un’accusa? E ancora: Vinci è nel pieno delle sue facoltà mentali? È sano o folle, ha diritto all’infermità mentale o ha preso in giro tutti? Sta di fatto che Antonella, Ninfa e Virginia “nisciru e un turnarunu chiù”; seimila cinquecento pagine di atti e l’assassino è un marsalese normale, perché “in giro c’è gente cattiva.” Vinci, peraltro, sarà condannato e sconterà 29 anni di carcere, e forse nessuno conosce la verità. Uno scrittore brillante, Antonio Pagliaro, che ci ha consegnato una storia da leggere assolutamente, non solo perché raccontata in maniera egregia, e non è poco, ma perché ci restituisce la memoria di tre innocenti: tre bambine, alle quali rivolgere il  nostro sguardo e alle quali l’autore dedica questa storia.

La citazione. “La pena non può scaturire dell’emozione. È dura spiegare che Vinci non è un mostro ma vittima. I mostri non esistono. Come un tempo le streghe, i mostri simboleggiano solo la nostra capacità di comprendere” (Elio Esposito, difensore di Michele Vinci)

“A volte le storie succedono insieme, ma non si intrecciano. A volte vicende che dovrebbero rimanere segrete diventano pubbliche perché una storia più grande alza coperchi. Ma i coperchi possiamo tenerli chiusi: la storia delle bambine di Marsala è solo una terribile storia semplice” (Antonio Pagliaro, in Appendice)

Daniela Grandinetti

*In copertina: immagine tratta da “l’Unità”; il 12 novembre 1971 “carabinieri e vigili del fuoco ispezionano il pozzo dove sono state trovate uccise le bambine Ninfa e Virginia Marchese”

L'articolo “Perché una storia così, una storia così terribile, non era mai stata raccontata?”. Tre domande ad Antonio Pagliaro proviene da Pangea.

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I relatori invitati al convegno

Organizzato da Giuliana Gemelli (UNIBO, Ass. Grande Giù) con il supporto di Maurizio Marinelli (Baskerville, Bologna

Francesco Lanza Carlo Gambacorti Passerini Maurizio Mascarin Riccardo Modestino Ignazio Tasca Piermario Biava Guido Biasco Luca Saragoni Mirko Taversari Gioacchino Pagliaro  Charlene Dray Mauro Checcoli  Massimo Da Re  Don Erio Castellucci Chiara De Santis  Marco Polettini Graziella Zohar  Pia Lucidi Maria Lucia Galli Antonio Loperfido  Vanessa Boyer Alice Spagnol  Ornella Del Neri Noemi Mercuri  Antonio Frassinetto Stefania Spadoni

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Mondragone, il sindaco Virgilio Pacifico ed il consigliere regionale Giovanni Zannini hanno preferito mettere i rifiuti al mercato ortofrutticolo generale

Mondragone. Il consigliere comunale Alessandro Pagliaro – consulente del presidente della commissione speciale “terra dei fuochi” in Regione Campania Gianpiero Zinzi – congiuntamente ai colleghi consiglieri di centro destra al comune di Mondragone Valerio Bertolino, Pasquale Marquez, Antonio Pagliaro e Giovanni Schiappa – già primo cittadino della città litoranea

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The Levridge Flats - 172 West 77th Street

In 1892 developer George R. Dunn began construction on a five-story flat and store building on the southeast corner of Amsterdam Avenue and West 77th Street.  It was designed by George Keister whose apartment buildings, private homes and resident hotels often overflowed with decorative elements.  That would not be the case with No. 172 West 77th Street, completed in 1894.  But while the overall design was, frankly, unremarkable, Keister included details which stand out.

The stone base included two shops--one opening onto the avenue, the doorway to the other nestling next to the main entrance on 77th Street.  The four stories of Roman brick above were enhanced by limestone bands and a stone cornice at the fourth floor.  Three slightly faceted metal bays on the avenue elevation added interest.  A projecting, bracketed cornice capped the design.

Keister strayed from his overall style with the Romanesque Revival granite capital of the ground floor corner pier.  Here two female faces--one with a slight smile, the other more serious--stare out from intricately carved floral forms.  Additionally, the areaway railings took on the Northern Renaissance style in their wonderful cast iron posts in the form of dragons.

Keister's most eye-catching detail, however, was the 77th Street entrance.  Here solid wing walls morphed to pedestals for stone columns, the straight fluting of which changed to spiral.  They upheld an entablature where charmingly carved with two chubby naked children play tug-of-war with a banner announcing the building's address.  Directly above, a stone balcony spanned the main entrance and that of the 77th Street shop.  It would originally have held an iron or stone railing

The closing off of the store entrance gives the balcony a decidedly off-kilter appearance.  

Dunn called his new building The Levridge.  The term "flats" or "French flats" was intended to distinguish such structures from tenements (although, technically, at the time there was no official difference).  It would be a few years before the term "apartments" came into wide-spread use.

Suites in The Levridge were spacious--either six or seven rooms each--and while tenants did not enjoy the amenities (like maid service) of more upscale buildings, advertisements did note "hall attendance."  (Hall attendants customarily wore uniforms and were on hand in case a resident needed help with packages or similar tasks.)  Rents ranged from $600 to $1,080 a year, or about $1,400 per month for the cheapest today.

The two stores were leased to M. Foster's drug store and C. H. Magna & Bro. grocery.  The Magna brothers, William and Clamor, operated two other grocery stores in the neighborhood, both on Columbus Avenue.

Most landlords on the Upper West Side happily accepted theater people--a group not welcomed in many parts of the city.  Consequently No. 172 (the name Levridge had been quickly dropped) became home to several well-known thespians.

By 1902 the Byron family lived here.  Oliver Doug Byron was described by The Evening World as "the well known actor," and his wife, Kate Byron,was "long a prominent figure on the American stage, according to The New York Herald years later.  Their son, Arthur, entered a stage career at the age of 17, in 1889.  The Evening World, on February 17, 1902 said he "comes naturally enough by his talent for acting."  Indeed, not only were Arthur's parents well-known by theater audiences, his aunt, Ada Rehan was a true star.

Kate's three siblings, Ada Rehan, William Crehan, and Hattie Russell, lived together in a house on West 93rd Street.  When William died late in 1903, Kate was appointed sole executor.  Crehan was apparently partial to Ada, for he gave Kate and Hattie each one-fourth of his estate, and Ada one-half.  Newspapers were most interested in a specific bequest, however.  On December 16 The New York Herald ran a headline "Leaves Parrot to Miss Ada Rehan."  The New York Times headline was similar and the article noted "Mr. Crehan also left his pet parrot, Poll, to Miss Rehan."

The fearsome cast iron railing posts no doubt have given toddlers the shudders for generations.

Two other residents involved in the theater were Max and Gertrude Hoffman.  Neither was an actor, but they produced plays and vaudeville acts.  On April 1, 1906, for instance, The Sun reported on a "the extra attraction" coming to the Hammerstein Theatre, called "The Swim."  "There will be produced for the first time in New York a singing and dancing act with fourteen people, arranged by Harry Williams and Max Hoffman, and staged by Gertrude Hoffman."

Gertrude's name appeared in newspapers for far different reasons on May 4, 1909.  The day before Antonio Pagliaro had been arrested and charged with felonious assault.  The New-York Tribune explained "Mrs. Holman alleged that the prisoner stabbed her as she was about to enter a drug store on Sunday night."

The tenants of No. 172 continued to be well-respected and financially well-off, most having at least one servant.  None would seem to be more so than James Philip Gilroy, the son of former Mayor Thomas J. Gilroy.  But domestic tranquility turned to upheaval by the spring of 1910.

Gilbroy had a responsible position with the O. J. Gude Company, earning $6,000 per year (a satisfying $160,000 today).  But his wife, the former Nina Huntley, accused him of drinking to excess.

On April 30, 1910 The New York Times reported "When Gilroy was not drinking in 1908, Mrs. Gilroy says, he was an exemplary citizen and a model husband."  But even Gilroy admitted that that year he began drinking too much.  So he "took the pledge" in church to abstain in 1908 and, according to him, "hasn't taken a drink since."  Well, "except those which are occasionally necessary in my business."

Calling his wife "this sweet-scented geranium," Gilroy told the judge that if he had drunk at all, it was because he was driven to it by Nina's conduct.  He said she was in the habit of accepting presents from "gentlemen friends."  The Times reported "As the result of their generosity he says, she has thousands of dollars' worth of jewels and a bank account of $3,000."  Furthermore, she "buncoed" him out of $275 when she claimed she needed to make a payment on a sealskin jacket.  He later found out that it was the gift from a man.

The back and forth he-said-she-said in the courtroom was dizzying.  Nina then said he had become "very disagreeable" since returning to drink.  "She says he broke her nose when he saw her kiss a man in a taxicab," reported The Times.  And Gilroy said it was Nina who was the drinker.

He told the court of one occasion when "his wife came home drunk and fell down stairs.  She flew into a rage and tore the curtains from the windows and threw them and the poles into the street...Then he says she pitched into him with a carving knife."

A maid, Mary Swarni, gave damning testimony.  The Times said she "testified that Robert Butt, to whose friendship for his wife Gilroy objected, was a regular caller during the afternoons, and that Mrs. Gilroy sent her out to take a walk around the block during his calls."

A much less controversial couple in the building were broker William E. Pearl and his wife.  Pearl had organized the Wall Street firm of P. T. Adams & Co. in 1889.  Following his death in 1905 his wife remained.  The apartment was the scene of her sister's funeral, Helen Schuyler Morse, on January 4, 1918.   She was active in social events, and when series of lectures was planned in the Plaza Hotel to benefit the Bethany Day Nursery later that year, The Sun noted "The tickets for the lectures may be obtained from Mrs. William E. Pearl, 172 West Seventy-second street."

By the time of the lectures, the store space facing Amsterdam Avenue was home to the Lotus Restaurant.  On January 17, 1920 Prohibition went into effect, a federal law not precisely followed by proprietor Henry Wertheimer.  On April 10, 1922 The New York Herald reported that Wertheimer was charged with violating the Volstead Act and was summoned to appear that day before United States Commissioner Samuel M. Hitchcock.

Victorian flats had fallen from favor among well-to-do apartment dwellers by now.  Jazz Age buildings with modern amenities were the new fashion.  Once home to respected citizens well-known among West Side society, No. 172 West 77th Street now attracted some less-than-savory tenants.

Among these was 29-year old Melvin Dunham.  He and Sidney Szarn had successfully committed several hold-ups when their criminal careers met an abrupt end on September 27, 1925.  At around noon that day the pair walked into the United Cigar Store at 60th Street and Broadway, brandishing handguns.  The Times said that "without any preliminaries" the crooks ordered the clerk into a rear room.  But as soon as the door was locked their victim began shouting, causing them to flee.

A police car was passing by just as they ran out of the store.  Patrolman John J. Leahy pursued them, nabbing the pair on 60th Street near Columbus Avenue.  The article said that "several hundred persons" watched the half block chase.  Melvin Dunham would not be returning to his West 77th Street apartment.  The $53.75 they stole from the cash register would earn them both long prison sentences.

On October 15 The Times reported that before Judge William Allen imposed his sentence, he questioned Dunham.

"Why did you resort to robbery?"

"Well, Judge," Dunham answered, "we read how easy it was to get away with it, and so we did it."

The judge did not consider that an adequate excuse.  Both men received sentences of between seven and a half to fifteen years in Sing Sing.

The mid-century years were not kind to No. 172 West 77th Street.  A third store was added by 1949, and at some point the doorway to the easternmost store was bricked up, creating an awkward asymmetry to the balcony.  Then, in 1971, the stores were consolidated into a single space for the Cuban restaurant Los Dos Hermanos.

The restaurant lasted in the space for years, garnering praise from food critics like New York magazine's Linda Wolfe and The New York Times' Raymond Sokolov.  It was followed around 1992 by Wildlife, a trendy bar.

No. 172 West 77th Street received horrific press coverage that year.  Resident Troy A. Rivera moved in after being released from prison in 1990 for attempting to sexually assault a young boy.  At some point, possibly in prison, he had contracted the HIV virus.

He began taunting children with obscene jeers as they walked to school.  His behavior progressed to mingling with children at the playground across the street from No. 172, despite his parole officer having explicitly prohibited him from being in contact with youngsters.

A neighbor, Sarah Rodriguez, later told police "He used to come down at 7:00 in the morning.  He'd stand on the stoop.  He'd say something to every kid who walked past.  He'd say, 'I like your butt.  Can I have your butt?'"  Nevertheless she did not think it was her responsibility to report the behavior to police.

Sarah's husband, who was the super of the building, received numerous late-night complaints of "prostitutes, transvestites and young men" (all under 17 years old) coming and going from Rivera's fourth floor apartment. 

On January 14, 1992 the unthinkable happened.  Rivera grabbed an 11-year-old boy as he walked to school alone.  Rivera forced him up the stairs and into his apartment, where he forcibly sodomized him.  The heinous crime was the talk of the neighborhood and the city for weeks.

In 2008 The Chirping Chicken restaurant took over the shop space.

Rivera was, of course, an anomaly among the tenants of no. 172.   From a broad range of ethnic backgrounds, they were on the whole hard-working, middle class families.

After more than 120 years the delightful carved address banner still brings a smile to passersby who happen to notice it; and the scary cast iron dragons no doubt continue to cause a few toddlers to pause.

photographs by the author

Source: http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-levridge-flats-172-west-77th-street.html

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Antonio Pagliaro racconta il concept della startup di Lamezia Terme

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Accoglienza: una soluzione “democratica”

(Irpinia e migranti: la proposta)

Quanto fino a ieri potevamo considerare “emergenza”, oggi è, più semplicemente, una situazione strutturale dell’Europa e, in virtù della sua posizione geografica, in particolare dell’Italia.

Attualmente risulta indispensabile operare un cambio di paradigma nel sistema di “accoglienza”. I modelli messi in atto finora, hanno risposto, soprattutto, a logiche transitorie e limitate nel tempo che non considerano i flussi migratori come un elemento antropologico e sociale della contemporaneità. Tale visione ha portato a gestire l’accoglienza attraverso lo strumento dei “Centri di Accoglienza Straordinari - C.A.S.” che, considerato il loro modello di riferimento, presentano spesso una carenza nella gestione dei servizi offerti e dei percorsi di integrazione/assistenza. I C.A.S , non sono espressione diretta delle politiche sociali di una comunità ma si collocano nella gestione “privata”, tra Prefettura e cooperative che gestiscono i servizi. Inevitabilmente, questo può creare attriti sociali nei Comuni che ospitano le strutture, alimentando quei fenomeni di xenofobia che, poi, vengono amplificati da alcune forze politiche. I tanti casi di cronaca ne sono un esempio.

A differenza del modello C.A.S., caratterizzato dallo “scollamento” tra la gestione delle scelte ed il territorio in cui vengono calate, esiste, dal 2001, il “Sistema di protezione per richiedenti asilo e rifugiati – S.P.R.A.R.”, caratterizzato dalle possibilità di protagonismo dei Comuni o delle loro reti nella progettazione, realizzazione e gestione di progetti di accoglienza integrata finanziabili con le risorse del Fondo nazionale per le politiche e i servizi dell’asilo. Questo sistema che pone i Comuni in prima linea e instaura un rapporto diretto tra questi e il ministero, creano un sistema di accoglienza di secondo livello, ben diverso dal primo e potenzialmente più virtuoso.

Lo S.P.R.A.R., per sua natura  gestionale, è obbligato a un sistema di monitoraggio economico e di integrazione sociale molto rigido, il che porta la qualità dei servizi offerti ad uno standard molto elevato.

Il modello S.P.R.A.R., infatti, si realizza attraverso progetti della durata massima di 3 anni, presentati direttamente dai Comuni al Ministero degli Interni, dimensionati per un’accoglienza massima pari al 2,5x1000 dei residenti, gestibili a livello territoriale dagli enti locali, anche con il supporto (non con la delega) delle realtà del terzo settore, per garantire interventi concreti e costruttivi di “accoglienza integrata” che vadano oltre la sola distribuzione di vitto e alloggio e guidino i processi di integrazione attraverso servizi di informazione, accompagnamento, assistenza e orientamento, costruzione di percorsi individuali di inserimento socio-economico. Attraverso gli S.P.R.A.R. , infatti, i Comuni possono

garantire i servizi fondamentali quali: supporto psicologico, assistenza legale, integrazione, corsi di alfabetizzazione, tirocini lavorativi, tutti fattori funzionali alla creazione di basi solide che permettano agli ospiti di inserirsi nel tessuto sociale ed economico;

adattare e contenere le dimensioni dell'accoglienza alle caratteristiche dei territori. Infatti, i centri S.P.R.A.R. hanno dimensioni definite, sono ideati e attuati a livello locale, con la diretta partecipazione degli attori presenti sul territorio che contribuiscono a costruire e a rafforzare una cultura dell’accoglienza presso le comunità cittadine e favoriscono la continuità dei percorsi di inserimento socio-economico dei beneficia;

dare ai percorsi di accoglienza una scadenza naturale. Gli ospiti quando si vedono riconosciuto uno status di protezione lasciano il centro che li ospita e possono a secondo del tipo di status ricevuto muoversi sul territorio nazionale o Europeo;

migliorare la qualità dei servizi attraverso meccanismi di trasparenza amministrativa e di monitoraggio efficaci (clausola di salvaguardia);

investire sul lavoro, valorizzando le forze produttive del territorio e mettendo i centri per l’impiego nelle condizioni di erogare con efficacia servizi di formazione e avviamento lavorativo attraverso appositi sportelli per l’integrazione da finanziare, a livello nazionale e regionale, ricorrendo ai fondi europei;

evitare l’apertura di altri centri di accoglienza da parte della Prefettura sul territorio comunale, se il numero di ospiti dello S.P.R.A.R. è equilibrato rispetto alla popolazione

Per quanto esposto e per le analisi pubblicate sul blog Vertenze ambientali,

Chi ha girato l’Africa

Le invasioni percepite

SPRAR: l’accoglienza ”altra”

i sottoscritti, ritengono fondamentale che il Partito Democratico in Irpinia, attraverso i suoi Circoli e i suoi amministratori, si faccia carico di rispondere all'emergenza “percepita” con strumenti di politica organica, facendosi testimone della possibilità di riformare il carente sistema di accoglienza in provincia di Avellino e promuovendo nelle amministrazioni comunali e/o loro reti, la presentazione di “progetti S.P.R.A.R.”.

Alfonso Bruno - segretario PD Circolo di Contrada

Salvatore Casale - iscritto PD (dott. in psicologia)

Alessandro Ciasullo - consigliere comunale Ariano Irpino

Virginio D’Adamo - segretario Circolo PD Gesualdo

Sabatina D’Avanzo - segretario PD Circolo Baiano

Anna Dello Buono - reggente Circolo PD Montella

Antonio De Feo - segretario Circolo PD di Serino

Marisa Di Cicilia - segretario Circolo PD Flumeri

Giuseppina Di Crescenzo - iscritta PD (componente camera penale)

Antonio Fieramosca - consigliere comunale San Michele di Serino

Maria Teresa Filippone - consigliere comunale Paternopoli

Paola Gerola - iscritta PD (operatore associazioni)

Giuseppe Iuliano - segretario Circolo PD San Michele di Serino

Claudio Mazzone - segretario Circolo PD Senerchia

Mario Pagliaro - iscritto PD (blog Vertenze ambientale)

Salvatore Petito - segretario Circolo PD Santa Lucia di Serino

Armando Sturchio -  segretario Circolo PD Caposele

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Elezioni regionali, tutti i voti dei candidati all’Ars di Agrigento

PALERMO – Ecco tutti i voti dei candidati all’Ars e di lista relativi al collegio della provincia di Agrigento. Mancano ancora alcune sezioni da scrutinare. LISTA N. 1 DC DEMOCRAZIA CRISTIANA Ordine Cognome Nome Luogo, Data di Nascita Preferenze 1 ALAIMO GIUSEPPE CANICATTI’ (AG), 31-12-1994 1.586 2 COSENTINO CHIARA LICATA (AG) 05-04-1975 322 3 FANARA SALVATORE AGRIGENTO, 14-07-1990 5.249 4 NOTONICA MARINELLA AGRIGENTO 31-07-1967 1.405 5 PACE CARMELO RIBERA (AG), 08-02-1971 7.719 6 TERRANA DECIO GROTTE (AG) 26-02-1958 2.254 TOTALE 18535 LISTA N. 2 DE LUCA SINDACO DI SICILIA – SUD CHIAMA NORD Ordine Cognome Nome Luogo, Data di Nascita Preferenze 1 BATTAGLIA ROBERTO AGRIGENTO, 04-07-1977 176 2 CANI GAETANO CANICATTI’ (AG) 05-10-1958 2.362 3 DALLI CARDILLO MARIA AGRIGENTO, 26-02-1966 40 4 MANISCALCO MARZIA TRIESTE 31-08-1976 263 5 MICELI CIRO SCIACCA (AG), 15-11-1978 745 6 MONTE SALVATORE ACCURSO MARIA SCIACCA (AG) 15-04-1985 1.867 TOTALE 5453 LISTA N. 3 SICILIANI LIBERI Ordine Cognome Nome Luogo, Data di Nascita Preferenze 1 PAGLIARO MARIO PALERMO, 15-09-1969 3 2 ESPOSITO RAFFAELLA CATANIA 03-10-1971 13 3 MANZO ANNA PALERMO, 01-01-1961 5 4 LO DICO MARCO PALERMO 09-07-1973 24 5 CAPPELLO GIOVANNI RAGUSA, 09-03-1961 0 6 NORRITO ANTONIO PALERMO 11-03-1966 0 TOTALE 45 LISTA N. 4 AZIONE – ITALIA VIVA – CALENDA Ordine Cognome Nome Luogo, Data di Nascita Preferenze 1 DI PAOLA FABRIZIO SCIACCA, 16-10-1962 2.890 2 LO GIUDICE CALOGERO Detta/o RINO CALTANISSETTA 26-10-1969 1.565 3 AGNELLO DECIMO PALERMO, 20-01-1979 1.326 4 PENDOLINO GIUSEPPE ARAGONA (AG) 23-06-1964 1.830 5 PALMINTERI SERAFINA SCIACCA (AG), 05-05-1975 87 6 DI LORENZO CHIARA PALERMO 01-11-1986 4 TOTALE 7702 LISTA N. 5 POPOLARI E AUTONOMISTI Ordine Cognome Nome Luogo, Data di Nascita Preferenze 1 DI MAURO GIOVANNI Detta/o ROBERTO AGRIGENTO, 27-06-1956 6.719 2 GALLUZZO ASSUNTA PFORZHEIM (D) 18-09-1966 613 3 GULISANO GIULIA AGRIGENTO, 03-01-1987 1.366 4 INTORRE DYANA CANICATTI’ (AG) 18-10-1955 2.146 5 LICATA DOMENICO Detta/o MIMMO LA LICATA CANICATTI’ (AG), 29-09-1976 2.650 6 MAGLIO VITO FAVARA (AG) 06-04-1966 2.082 TOTALE 15576 LISTA N. 6 PARTITO DEMOCRATICO Ordine Cognome Nome Luogo, Data di Nascita Preferenze 1 CATANZARO MICHELE SCIACCA (AG), 04-04-1981 7.626 2 MARTELLO SALVATORE Detta/o TOTO’ LAMPEDUSA E LINOSA (AG) 04-10-1956 915 3 MAZZA VITA MARIA AGRIGENTO, 19-01-1975 372 4 PASSARELLO CALOGERO RAOUL RAFFADALI (AG) 23-09-1980 878 5 VELLA STELLA RAFFADALI (AG), 04-06-1971 577 6 ZARCONE ANTONIO FAVARA (AG) 16-10-1953 332 TOTALE 10700 LISTA N. 7 SICILIA VERA Ordine Cognome Nome Luogo, Data di Nascita Preferenze 1 BONSIGNORE NICOLETTA LICATA (AG), 05-10-1984 204 2 CHIARELLI EDUARDO RACALMUTO (AG) 05-08-1964 285 3 MALLUZZO SALVATORE AGRIGENTO, 11-07-1994 1.615 4 MARULLO SALVATORE AGRIGENTO 22-06-1980 98 5 NICOLOSI SALVATORE LICATA (AG), 09-09-1965 194 TOTALE 2396 LISTA N. 8 FORZA ITALIA Ordine Cognome Nome Luogo, Data di Nascita Preferenze 1 GALLO AFFLITTO RICCARDO ANTONIO Detta/o GALLO MONTEVIDEO (Uruguay), 30-10-1967 5.716 2 LA ROCCA MARGHERITA IN RUVOLO Detta/o RITA MONTEVAGO (AG) 30-12-1961 4.269 3 FONTANA VINCENZO ANTONIO AGRIGENTO, 16-04-1952 1.950 4 FIACCABRINO ALESSANDRA AGRIGENTO 27-03-1983 1.421 5 SALVAGGIO LUIGI SAN CATALDO (CL), 18-07-1977 3.019 6 VINCENTI ANTONIO LICATA (AG) 13-11-1961 757 TOTALE 17132 LISTA N. 9 ORGOGLIO SICULO CON CATENO Ordine Cognome Nome Luogo, Data di Nascita Preferenze 1 LO BRACCO GIANLUCA LICATA (AG), 30-09-1984 36 2 MARCHETTA GERLANDO AGRIGENTO 27-12-1987 183 3 SICURELLO GIUSEPPE HOMBERG (D), 18-01-1974 143 4 VASSALLO ANETTE SPEYER (D) 04-04-1972 14 5 VELLA ROSARIO GIOACCHINO CANICATTI’ (AG), 06-12-1997 1 6 VIZZINI MYRIAM AGRIGENTO 05-03-2000 104 TOTALE 481 LISTA N. 10 MOVIMENTO 5 STELLE 2050 Ordine Cognome Nome Luogo, Data di Nascita Preferenze 1 DI CARO GIOVANNI AGRIGENTO, 17-11-1974 2.901 2 ERSINI SALVATORE AGRIGENTO 15-05-1983 1.741 3 CAMBIANO ANGELO LICATA (AG), 04-06-1973 3.541 4 CARLISI MARCELLA AGRIGENTO 16-03-1973 110 5 CASTROGIOVANNI FRANCESCO SVIZZERA, 19-10-1969 372 6 BELLICOSI VERONICA SCIACCA (AG) 31-07-1991 278 TOTALE 8943 LISTA N. 11 FRATELLI D’ITALIA Ordine Cognome Nome Luogo, Data di Nascita Preferenze 1 MANGIACAVALLO MATTEO SCIACCA (AG), 09-07-1972 459 2 SAVARINO GIUSEPPA Detta/o GIUSI GELA (CL) 11-08-1974 6.623 3 ANTINORO PAOLA AGRIGENTO, 14-05-1983 130 4 CIRILLO GIOVANNI LICATA (AG) 22-01-1978 723 5 DI CARO GIOVANNI VILLINGEN (D), 05-06-1972 2.243 6 MARCHESE RAGONA LILIANA Detta/o DANIELA AGRIGENTO 29-07-1972 1.465 TOTALE 11643 LISTA N. 12 CENTO PASSI PER LA SICILIA Ordine Cognome Nome Luogo, Data di Nascita Preferenze 1 AQUILINO PIETRO CANICATTI’ (AG), 25-01-1963 408 2 FONTANA VINCENZO NARO (AG) 17-09-1955 412 3 GALVANO ANGELA MARIA SERENA Detta/o ANGELA AGRIGENTO, 14-04-1978 629 4 MALLIA MARIO CASTELTERMINI (AG) 20-06-1960 814 5 MONTALBANO GIUSEPPE SCIACCA (AG), 16-06-1967 1.477 6 MONTELEONE MARIA TERESA Detta/o TERESA SOLETTA (CH) 10-06-1966 202 TOTALE 3942 LISTA N. 13 PRIMA L’ITALIA – SALVINI PREMIER Ordine Cognome Nome Luogo, Data di Nascita Preferenze 1 PULLARA CARMELO LICATA (AG), 06-10-1972 8.023 2 D’ANGELO CARMELO PALERMO 26-07-1978 3.110 3 LATTUCA SANTINA Detta/o SABRINA AGRIGENTO, 01-09-1977 1.414 4 LAURICELLA ANTONINO ROCOURT (B) 09-11-1968 978 5 SACCO PAOLINA RAFFADALI (AG), 13-09-1973 410 6 SCIABBARRA’ CESARE AGRIGENTO 20-03-1967 422 TOTALE 14357 Read the full article

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5 preguntas sobre "nuevos clásicos"

Cinco preguntas a cinco personalidades de la cultura sobre el tema de tapa de revista Quid: nuevos clásicos.

Por  Nando Varela Pagliaro

Josefina Licitra (periodista, escritora)

- ¿Qué elementos hacen que una obra sea considerada un clásico?

-Una obra es un clásico, a mi entender, cuando la línea superficial del relato -la que está atravesada por elementos de trama y marcas de época- está sostenida por una segunda línea mucho más poderosa y menos visible, que va emergiendo de a poco y que pone en juego temas universales sobre los que siempre nos haremos preguntas: el amor, el odio, la juventud, la venganza, la vejez, el miedo a la muerte, el sexo. Cuando esos temas, que no envejecen, ganan terreno sobre la trama sin volverse sentenciosos, quizás -suponiendo que esta ecuación funciona- se pueda pensar en esa obra como un clásico.

- ¿En qué se diferencian los clásicos antiguos de los más contemporáneos?

-En las formas. En el ropaje. En la trama superficial. La segunda trama, en cambio, es siempre la misma.

- ¿Cuáles son sus nuevos clásicos preferidos?

-"Nuevo clásico" por momentos me parece un oxímoron. El único testeo imbatible para saber si un libro es un clásico es el paso del tiempo: ahí está el filtro que permite ver cuánto permanece y cuánto se pierde de una obra. Así y todo, creo que El guardián en el Centeno, de Salinger, buena parte de la obra de Carver (en especial el cuento Diles a las mujeres que nos vamos), Desgracia, de Coetzee, Los Detectives Salvajes, de Bolaño, algunos cuentos de Alice Munro (como Muebles de familia) y otros cuentos de Abelardo Castillo (como La madre de Ernesto) ya están, para mí, en el terreno de lo clásico. De todos modos, las listas son odiosas. Cada vez que nombro, inevitablemente, omito.

- ¿Con qué autor (vivo o muerto) de alguna obra que sea considerada un nuevo clásico le gustaría compartir una cena? ¿Por qué?

-Con Bolaño, porque dicen que hablaba mucho y eso me tranquiliza. No soportaría una cena con baches.

- ¿Qué obra actual cree que en el futuro va a ser considerada un clásico?

-Ya cometí una injusticia en la tercera pregunta. ¡No me hagan cometer otra en esta!

Tomas Abraham (filósofo, escritor)

- ¿Qué elementos hacen que una obra sea considerada un clásico?

-Me referiré a la literatura en general (que incluye a la filosofía y al ensayo). Una obra clásica es la que no deja de tener lectores. Siempre vuelve. Es objeto de infinitos comentarios que intentan restituir su significado original. Pertenece a un tiempo diferente, a un futuro anterior o un pasado por venir.

- ¿En qué se diferencian los clásicos antiguos de los más contemporáneos?

-Un clásico por definición es hijo del tiempo, hijo y no hermano o padre. Un contemporáneo es clásico por una promesa de fidelidad de lectores futuros. Una apuesta.

- ¿Cuáles son sus nuevos clásicos preferidos?

-Clásicos son Platón y Shakespeare, a los que me dediqué por personificar en la filosofía y la literatura, las dos cimas del género.

- ¿Con qué autor (vivo o muerto) de alguna obra que sea considerada un nuevo clásico le gustaría compartir una cena? ¿Por qué?

-Con Hannah Arendt y Lou Andreas Salomé. Porque son bellas e inteligentes.

- ¿Qué obra actual cree que en el futuro va a ser considerada un clásico?

-La de Michel Foucault en la filosofía, Primo Levi e Imre Kértesz en la ética, la de Paul Veyne y Tulio Halperín Donghi en la historia, la de Pessoa y Gombrowicz en la literatura, y la de Bob Dylan en el arte en general.

Manuel Moretti (Compositor, cantante de Estelares)

- ¿Qué elementos hacen que una obra sea considerada un clásico?

-Quizás un clásico sea un ejercicio de uno o varios artistas que encuadra perfectamente con una época, como un registro de esa época, con la emocionalidad, con el lenguaje que los artistas usaron para armar ese objeto que después se transformó en un clásico. A veces lleva tiempo decodificar estas lecturas, pero tiene una característica que es que gusta mucho y atraviesa la cultura popular. Todo clásico debe estar muy cercano a lo popular.

- ¿En qué se diferencian los clásicos antiguos de los más contemporáneos?

-Se me ocurre que la primera diferencia sería el lenguaje. Conforme pasa el tiempo, el lenguaje va cambiando y también cambia la interrelación de los artistas con el público, con su material. También pienso que esta época es mucho más rápida que la anterior. La vorágine actual hace que todo caiga más pronto. Por otro lado, con muchas obras suele ocurrir que no son entendidas en su época y luego se convierten en clásicos.

- ¿Cuáles son sus nuevos clásicos preferidos?

-Hay muchos clásicos actuales, dentro del mundo del cine pienso en Tarantino y Almodóvar. Hay algo en su manera de narrar que atraviesa todas las capas conceptuales y que los hace inconfundibles

.- ¿Con qué autor (vivo o muerto) de alguna obra que sea considerada un nuevo clásico le gustaría compartir una cena? ¿Por qué?

-Justo ahora que estoy en España, si estuviese vivo, me gustaría estar bebiendo y escuchándolo contar anécdotas y diseccionando universos a ese crack que fue Roberto Bolaño. Sin dudas, uno de los mejores escritores de los últimos años. 2666 es un ejercicio maravilloso de literatura moderna.

- ¿Qué obra actual cree que en el futuro va a ser considerada un clásico?

-El espectáculo del tiempo de Juan José Becerra es una novela impresionante. Ojalá merezca algún día ser un clásico por la exquisitez y la profundidad en cómo está narrado. En la música, pensaba también que Wos, Louta, Ca7riel y Paco Amoroso son pibes que tienen algo que no suena en la media, y tal vez con un desarrollo determinado puedan llegar a convertirse en clásico.

Eugenia Zicavo (periodista, socióloga)

- ¿Qué elementos hacen que una obra sea considerada un clásico?

- Los “clásicos” son libros que pasan la prueba del tiempo y siguen siendo leídos por distintas generaciones de lectores. En lo personal, rescato lo que dice Ítalo Calvino en "Por qué leer los clásicos": “Tu clásico es aquel que no puede serte indiferente y que te sirve para definirte a vos mismo en relación y quizás en contraste con él”.

- ¿En qué se diferencian los clásicos antiguos de los más contemporáneos?

- Los "clásicos antiguos" son los que consolidaron su fama a lo largo de distintas épocas y diferentes culturas. Los que siguen cosechando reediciones y nuevos lectores en todo el mundo. Generan un respeto especial que, por un lado, fomenta su lectura y por el otro les juega en contra: muchos los asocian erróneamente con un consumo erudito o incluso aburrido que provoca la pereza de "hacer el esfuerzo" (y también la vergüenza por no haberlos leído, y la consecuente mentira de que sí los leyeron). Los clásicos contemporáneos son en algún sentido "menos clásicos" y aún guardan una mayor cercanía de época con sus lectores, que en el imaginario social se vuelven más accesibles.

- ¿Cuáles son sus nuevos clásicos preferidos?

- Entre mis "nuevos clásicos" preferidos del siglo XX: "Lolita" de Nabokov, "A sangre fría" de Capote, "1984" de Orwell, "Matadero 5" de Vonnegut y "El segundo sexo" de De Beauvoir.

- ¿Con qué autor (vivo o muerto) de alguna obra que sea considerada un nuevo clásico le gustaría compartir una cena? ¿Por qué?

- Me encantaría compartir una cena con Kurt Vonnegut, un hombre de muchas vidas, con un talento descomunal y un sentido del humor exquisito. Creo que sería un excelente compañero de copas.

- ¿Qué obra actual cree que en el futuro va a ser considerada un clásico?

- Ojalá toda la obra de Alessandro Baricco y de Philip Roth.

Antonio Birabent (músico, actor)

- ¿Qué elementos hacen que una obra sea considerada un clásico?

-En gran medida la promoción que esa obra tenga. Y también algo inexplicable, misterioso.

-¿En qué se diferencian los clásicos antiguos de los más contemporáneos?

-Simplemente en el efecto que produce el paso del tiempo.

-¿Cuáles son sus nuevos clásicos preferidos?

-Disfruto de la música sin pensarla tanto. Entiendo que la condición de clásico es muy personal y cambiante al mismo tiempo.

-¿Con qué autor (vivo o muerto) de alguna obra que sea considerada un nuevo clásico le gustaría compartir una cena? ¿Por qué?

-Aníbal Troilo. Su obra es una identidad de esta ciudad y anhelo esa época que describe.

¿Qué obra actual cree que en el futuro va a ser considerada un clásico?

-Prefiero no saberlo.

Publicada originalmente en Revista Quid.

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PREMIO CACCURI: A CARLO COTTARELLI

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PREMIO CACCURI: A CARLO COTTARELLI

Il Maestro: “È possibile crescere davvero solo nutrendosi di cultura autentica, così come avviene da anni con il Premio Letterario Caccuri”

E’ stato Carlo Cottarelli con “I sette peccati capitali dell’economia italiana”, edito da Feltrinelli, a vincere l’edizione 2019 del Premio Letterario Caccuri, sezione Saggistica.

A Cottarelli è stata assegnata la “Torre D’Argento”,  l’opera realizzata dal maestro orafo Michele Affidato, diventata il simbolo del premio che da diversi anni ospita gli intellettuali più influenti del nostro paese.

Un vero e proprio evento, organizzato dall’associazione culturale Accademia dei Caccuriani, composta da oltre 400 associati provenienti da tutta Italia. Pari merito per gli altri finalisti, ovvero Emma D’Aquino con “Ancora un giro di chiave.

Nino Marano: una vita fra le sbarre” (Baldini+Castoldi), Massimo Franco con “C’era una volta Andreotti. Ritratto di un uomo, di un’epoca e di un Paese” (Solferino) ed Enrico Letta con “Ho imparato.

In viaggio con i giovani sognando un’Italia mondiale” (il Mulino). I quattro saggi arrivati in finale sono stati selezionati da un comitato scientifico presieduto da Giordano Bruno Guerri e sono stati votati da una giuria nazionale e da una popolare, composte in totale da 110 giurati.

Nel corso dei cinque giorni della manifestazione, che si è svolta a Caccuri tra il 6 ed il 10 agosto, sono stati inoltre assegnate altri Torri d’Argento, come il Premio Caccuri per il giornalismo a Paolo Pagliaro, il Premio Caccuri per la tv a Rita Dalla Chiesa e il Premio Caccuri per la Musica a Michele Zarrillo. Esordio assoluto per il Premio Caccuri Letteratura e Sport, assegnato alla commissario tecnico della Nazionale di calcio femminile Milena Bertolini, con il libro “Quelli che il calcio e…” Aliberti), che è stato consegnato sul palco al ct dal maestro Affidato, il Premio Caccuri per il Giornalismo d’Inchiesta al conduttore di Report Sigfrido Ranucci e il Premio Caccuri Opera Prima a Luciano Basile con il libro “ll successo, il denaro o la felicità?” (Mondadori).

Premio speciale Alessandro Salem attribuito a Jan Slangen, già capitano delle Frecce Tricolori, un riconoscimento molto importante che nelle passate edizioni è stato assegnato a personaggi come Alessandro Profumo, Paolo Mieli, Carmen Lasorella, Antonio Azzalini, Michele Placido, Ferruccio de Bortoli e Massimo Cacciari. Un messaggio particolare è arrivato invece ai ragazzi di Caccuri, una benedizione che difficilmente dimenticheranno: “Ai ragazzi di Caccuri, ringraziandovi per la vostra testimonianza. Continuate avanti così… lasciando le vostre tracce sulla storia.

Che il Signore vi benedica e la Madonna vi custodica e, per favore, non dimenticatevi di pregare per me” ha scritto Papa Francesco incidendole sul libro “Dio è Giovane” (Piemme Editore) che il dottor Carlo Musso, nuovo cittadino onorario del Comune di Caccuri, ha consegnato al Sindaco Marianna Caligiuri e a tutti i Caccuresi.

A Carlo Musso è stata consegnata simbolicamente la chiave della città di Caccuri, una creazione realizzata sempre dal maestro Michele Affidato. La serata finale è stata condotta nella suggestiva location del castello di Caccuri da Massimo Giletti e da Mary De Gennaro.“Il Premio Caccuri – commenta Michele Affidato – è ormai diventato un punto di riferimento nel panorama culturale italiano.

I finalisti di quest’anno confermano il grande livello raggiunto dal premio.

A noi il compito di  realizzare la “Torre d’Argento”, simbolo di una manifestazione che attraverso la cultura ha aperto le porte della nostra terra ai più grandi scrittori e pensatori contemporanei, ospiti nelle varie edizioni della kermesse.

È possibile crescere davvero solo nutrendosi di cultura autentica, così come avviene da anni al Premio Caccuri. Ho creduto fin da subito in questo progetto portato avanti con sacrificio, passione e grande professionalità da Adolfo Barone, Roberto De Candia e Olimpio Talarico che, nonostante vivano lontano dalla loro terra, hanno mantenuto saldo il legame con le loro radici”.

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Durazzano (BN): "Paesaggi del Ponte" mostra fotografica, dal 22 al 29 dicembre 2018

Durazzano (BN): “Paesaggi del Ponte” mostra fotografica, dal 22 al 29 dicembre 2018

PAESAGGI DEL PONTE Pochi, piccoli sguardi grandi da Salvatore Basso ad Antonio Bergamino

dal 22 al 29 dicembre 2018 MOSTRA FOTOGRAFICA a cura di: Giuseppe Abbatiello e Massimo Abbatiello

Casa “Basso” via Roma, Durazzano apertura dalle 18,00 alle 24,00

OPENING: 22 dicembre, ore 18,00 intervengono: Francesco Basso Antonio Bergamino introducono: Mario Pagliaro e Natalia Piscitelli

Il Ponte della Valle di…

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Lo spettacolo “Prove tecniche di Utopia” messo in scena dalla Supercompagnia UILT della Basilicata

  PERSONAGGI  E INTERPRETI

Caronna, capo-comico della Compagnia Caronna (Leonardo Chiorazzi) Segretaria del Dottor Sciacquone (Anna Mango) Pulcinella, attore della Compagnia Caronna (Giambattista Lobreglio) Colombina, attrice della Compagnia Caronna (Claudia Pergola) Giangurgolo, attore della Compagnia Caronna (Maria Giovanna Propato) Cucibocca, anche Scenografo (Angelica Caputo) Secondo cucibocca (Godspower Megbuliofa) Masca, attrice della Compagnia Caronna (Maria Adele Popolo) Fitna, attrice della Compagnia Caronna (Giuliana Flora) Vilna, attrice della Compagnia Caronna (Loredana Stoppelli) Dottor Sciacquone, direttore del Teatro Scalera (Gianluigi Pagliaro) Tommaso Senno, regista teatrale, anche Inserviente (Francesco Tarantino) Fattorino, anche Poliziotto (Jacopo Colangelo)

  Scritto e diretto da Antonio De Lisa

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