To illustrate the founding origins and the statutory purposes as a Third Sector Body of the Committee, as a traditional entity in the Territory operating in the Cultural Heritage and Tourism sector since 1953, the journalist and writer Nino Vinella, its current President in office (reconfirmed for the next three years in the recent ordinary meeting of members last Saturday 22 June) supported by the founding member rag. Happy Michele Iodice. Prof. was part of the delegation that attended the meeting. Vincenzo Piccialli as a member of the historic “Barletta Provincial Struggle Committee” who briefly illustrated to the HE Prefect the events connected to the popular mobilization and its establishment as a body now twenty years ago with the law of 11 June 2004. While the actor and director Michele Cafagna, president of the cultural recreational association “Attori spontaneouse barlettani”, spoke about dialect theater and the importance of the popular language as an instrument of identity culture in the Territory and invited the prefectural authority to the performance of the comedy “A ‘navicule sta’ vacande” at the Tennis Club on Saturday 31 August.
SE Prefect Dr. D’Agostino expressed her sincere satisfaction to those present, rejoicing at the activities underway by the Italian Pro Canne Committee of the ODV Battle and expressing her sincere personal and institutional applause for the publications received as gifts to document the editorial commitment undertaken over the last few years in favor of public opinion and the younger generations in schools, with particular reference to the volume “La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno tells Pietro Mennea. The Man, the Athlete, the Champion. The pages memorable memories of an extraordinary life” published in 2023 by Di Marsico Libri Bari for the tenth anniversary of his death.
In the farewell words of Prefect D’Agostino, the moving memory of Pietro Mennea “who in the years of his greatest sporting success as an Italian athlete of world reference was always on the lips and in the hearts of all of us in the family, and in particular of my father Carlo who was a passionate fan. I’m really excited thinking that now I find myself in the birthplace of your and our Champion…”
In addition to the most recent book “At the table with De Nittis italien, painter, gourmet and his friends”, the Prefect was given for his personal library “The collapse of Via Canosa in Barletta: 58 dead and 12 injured. Wednesday 16 September 1959 . An Italian tragedy on the front page. When Journalism makes History” (catalogue of the exhibition organized in collaboration with the State Archives in 2019 for the sixtieth anniversary) and “Barletta, the streets of History: the Church of the Real Monte di Pietà and the Seven Rue in the historic center” in collaboration with the FAI Italian Environment Fund in 2009.
