Met editorial team
Presentation of Dario Becattini’s book “Titanic. Story of a dream”
Wednesday 26 June at 6.30 pm at Villa Vittoria Cultura
Tomorrow (Wednesday 26 June) at 6.30 pm, in the space of Villa Vittoria Cultura, within the schedule of “The Book of the Week” the work by Dario Becattini entitled “Titanic. Story of a dream” (Mauro Pagliai Editore, 2022).
The author, Dario Becattini with Lorenzo Conti Lapi and Bernard Dika will speak at the presentation, together with the president of Villa Vittoria Cultura Giovanni Fittante.
The book tells, from a new and original point of view, the tragic story of the legendary English ocean liner Titanic which left on 10 April 1912 from the port of Southampton towards New York and sank in the icy waters of the Atlantic, off the coast of Newfoundland, the night between 14 and 15 April after the collision with an iceberg: a total of 1518 people were missing out of the 2223 people who boarded. Thus, in just over two hours, even the precious furnishings and works of art loaded onto the largest and most beautiful ship ever, were lost in the depths of the sea, erasing the dreams, certainties and hopes of those who believed that man with this grandiose work, jewel of naval engineering of the early twentieth century, had achieved dominion over the forces of nature.
“The sinking of the Titanic, one of the most tragic pages of history of the twentieth century, taken as a metaphor for the end of the Belle Époque and the start of the Great War, has always fascinated me” declared Dario Becattini. “Precisely for this reason, drawing on historical sources, unpublished chronicles of the time and the often controversial news that appeared in the newspapers in those terrible days, I tried to revisit the exciting story by focusing on the particular and differentiated socio-cultural context of the people travelling. What emerged clearly was the absolute respect for the social hierarchy guaranteed on board with the first class of wealthy businessmen bound for New York occupying the upper part of the ship. Second class accommodation was intended for the bourgeois class, while the ‘migrants’ of Europe in search of a new life and new job opportunities traveled in third class, isolated from everything else and in extremely precarious and uncomfortable conditions”.
“And the thought – concludes the author – inevitably leads us back to the tragic situation we are experiencing today with the landing on our coasts of thousands and thousands of migrants fleeing from their countries in the hope of a better life”.
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25/06/2024 1.41pm
Met editorial team
Presentation of Dario Becattini’s book “Titanic. Story of a dream”. Wednesday 26 June at 6.30 pm at Villa Vittoria Cultura. Tomorrow (Wednesday 26 June) at 6.30 pm, in the space of Villa Vittoria Cultura, within the schedule of “The Book of the Week” the work by Dario Becattini entitled “Titanic. Story of a dream” (Mauro Pagliai Editore, 2022). The author, Dario Becattini with Lorenzo Conti Lapi and Bernard Dika will speak at the presentation, together with the president of Villa Vittoria Cultura Giovanni Fittante. The book tells, from a new and original point of view, the tragic story of the legendary English ocean liner Titanic which left on 10 April 1912 from the port of Southampton towards New York and sank in the icy waters of the Atlantic, off the coast of Newfoundland, the night between 14 and 15 April after the collision with an iceberg: a total of 1518 people were missing out of the 2223 people who boarded. Thus, in just over two hours, even the precious furnishings and works of art loaded onto the largest and most beautiful ship ever, were lost in the depths of the sea, erasing the dreams, certainties and hopes of those who believed that man with this grandiose work, jewel of naval engineering of the early twentieth century, had achieved dominion over the forces of nature. “The sinking of the Titanic, one of the most tragic pages of history of the twentieth century, taken as a metaphor for the end of the Belle Époque and the start of the Great War, has always fascinated me” declared Dario Becattini. “Precisely for this reason, drawing on historical sources, unpublished chronicles of the time and the often controversial news that appeared in the newspapers in those terrible days, I tried to revisit the exciting story by focusing on the particular and differentiated socio-cultural context of the people travelling. What emerged clearly was the absolute respect for the social hierarchy guaranteed on board with the first class of wealthy businessmen bound for New York occupying the upper part of the ship. Second class accommodation was intended for the bourgeois class, while the ‘migrants’ of Europe in search of a new life and new job opportunities traveled in third class, isolated from everything else and in extremely precarious and uncomfortable conditions”. “And the thought – concludes the author – inevitably leads us back to the tragic situation we are experiencing today with the landing on our coasts of thousands and thousands of migrants fleeing from their countries in the hope of a better life”. www.villavittoriafirenze.com editor: Met editorial staff dated: 06/25/2024
