Andrea Capellini – delegated municipal councilor of Gragnano and young person elected to the European Committee of the Regions (CdR) of Brussels – presented “The Last Farmer”, a historical research book by Maria Chiara Ferri on 19 April at the headquarters of the Committee of the Regions of Brussels.
«I am extremely satisfied that the name of Gragnano Trebbiense and my family have arrived, once again, through my volume, outside my country through our history and the story of true events, in which many readers can find themselves. At the same time I like the idea of being able to encourage everyone to tell their own story, so as not to be forgotten” explained Maria Chiara Ferri, returning from the presentation of the same volume at the international book fair in Havana, at Cuba.
«In these years of mandate – said Cappellini – I have tried to give my best also to try to make my community, to which I am strongly attached, grasp European advantages and opportunities. Not only in terms of alliances and funding opportunities, but also in terms of promoting our territory, especially from a cultural point of view, as in this case. The roles for which I am working at the CoR and within the international delegation of administrators of the European Commission have allowed me to be able to structure it in favor of our territory. Thanks to Chiara, from Gragnano like me, for accepting the invitation and to my Brussels colleagues, from the Committee of the Regions to the delegation of the Emilia-Romagna Region, for supporting him”.
The Ferri-Capellini generational relay from Gragnano will lead to further opportunities for presenting the volume. In the first week of October it will be presented at Piola Libri, one of the most important literary cafés in Brussels, by the delegate of the Emilia-Romagna Region in the EU Francesco Errani who, in collaboration with the Emilia-Romagna association in Brussels, will also propose a all school bookstores the already well-known Gigio Furetto series by the same author. Capellini will coordinate these projects, to which will be added the book fair in Frankfurt from 16 to 20 October at the European Union stand. «We are proud to be able to do our part to make a contribution and bring the name of our Gragnano to the world», they conclude.
Maria Chiara and Andrea invite all the people of Gragnano to write their own story in order to expand the written memory of Gragnano, through real life testimonies, so that they are not forgotten.
