From the Alian confinement, remembering Carlo Levi, a pioneer… but also confined like Don Pierino Dilenge, he could only emigrate beyond the ocean, among the many who like him consider it an opportunity to end up among lands and people different from ours, rolling up their sleeves and with a sign of the Cross as the Gospel of the Last Ones teaches. And that story, written with passion by Emilio Salierno, could only have its translation into English and in an international showcase such as the Turin Book Fair. Formerly Turin, birthplace of Carlo Levi who lived as a prisoner in Aliano (Matera) and is buried there. A long history, destined to last, like the Panevino club which carries the flag of research, culture and memory high, where there are men who love the territory. And the surprises, it seems, are not over. The director of the club, Emilio Salierno, has another surprise in store for Italian and American readers, with the announcement of the book on the figure of the Lucanian Giovanni De Maria. A pioneer of NASA research, the space agency responsible for many missions to the Moon. That planet with barren but fascinating surfaces, like the gullies that surround Aliano.
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Salierno in Turin with “Il 36esimo confineto” in English
and to announce the new book about the moonstone scientist.
In Turin “The 36th confined” by Emilio Salierno. At the 2024 International Book Fair there will be space for the story created by the Lucanian author on the life of the revolutionary priest Don Pietro Dilenge.
Salierno returns to the Piedmontese capital after the 2022 presentation, but with the novelty of the English language edition of the volume published by Gangemi Editore International of Rome with a translation by Victoria Withouse Infantino.
The journalist Gigi Scaglione will talk to the author at the stand of the Basilicata Region. Piero Marrese, president of the Union of the Italian Provinces of Basilicata (UPI), will be present.
It will also be an opportunity to announce Salierno’s new book, which will be released this year and will propose the prof’s story. Giovanni De Maria, of Lucanian origins, the lunar stone scientist who was the protagonist of the lunar epic in the seventies with his research on behalf of NASA, today more relevant than ever with respect to the new projects for the human colonization of the Moon.
The appointment is at the stand of the Basilicata Region, at 5.15 pm on Friday 10 May (P22-Q17/Pavilion 3).
The Nicola Panevino cultural club of Aliano will be present in Turin with its managers to support its director Salierno and to meet some of the protagonists of the Book Fair in view of new literary initiatives in Basilicata.
Aliano, 8 May 2024
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