After the first evening last Sunday, it continues to Alassioin Freedom Squarethe review “Books & Words – A wave of pages”created by the journalist and writer Daniele La Corte and organized byDepartment of Culture of the Municipality of Alassio. The next meeting will be held Thursday 27 June at 9.15pm with the journalist and television presenter Mario Paternostrowho will present his volume “Togliatti and the Cardinal”published by De Ferrari.
What would Palmiro Togliatti and Cardinal Giuseppe Siri have said to each other if they had met? A dockworker and a small businessman chat about it on a long August night in 1988, walking through the alleys of the historic center of Genoa. He reveals to his friend that he has acted as a “postman” for the historic political leader and the high Genoese prelate. . Nine letters in ten years. Top secret kept. Mario Paternostro, using only real documents, newspapers, rallies, original and some unpublished writings, period recordings, witness accounts and on the other hand pastoral letters, homilies, diaries, biographies, newspaper interviews, constructs this meeting that did not happen: between reality and fiction, to tell ten decisive years of Italian history.
Free access. In case of bad weather the meeting will be held in the Auditorium of the Civic Library (Piazza Airaldi e Durante, 7)
The next meeting will be held Tuesday 2 Julywith the intervention of the journalist and vice-president of the Turin Press Club, Marco Francalanciwho will present his volume “War reports in Genoa” (Capricorn Editions).
Review of Books & Words
