Maria Pia Vicinanza
Yesterday evening, at Villa delle Ginestre, the 226th birthday was celebrated with the literary evening “Infinito Leopardi”. With the patronage of the Ente Ville Vesuviane Foundation, led by president Gennaro Miranda, who included the initiative desired by the newspaperinternoSalerno, in its programming dedicated to Leopardi, the literary meeting promoted by the “Leopardi e Napoli” association, in synergy with Aps Guestitaly, Ets AssoMiMe, the Nibiru/Media Leader publishing house, the newspapers DentroSalerno and Agrotoday. The evening, hosted by the Director ofinternoSalerno, Rita Ovest Lupo, recorded masterful interventions by experts, lovers and enthusiasts of the writings and poems of Leopardi who was born in Recanati, in the Marche region, on 29 June 1798 and died in Naples, having arrived four years earlier, on 14 June 1837. The literary evening held among a qualified audience, after the speeches by Rita Ovest Lupo and Agostino Ingenito, publisher and journalist, saw the speeches: by Carlo Di Lieto, professor of Italian literature at Suor Orsola Benincasa; by the writer Raffaele Urraro; by Gabriele Pulli, associate professor of philosophical psychology at the University of Salerno; by the essayist Carmela Politi Cenere, president of the Emily Dickinson International Prize. The readings of some poems and letters taken from the correspondence by the school director and teacher Laura Patrizia Cagnazzo and the journalist Luigi Snichelotto. “Villa delle Ginestre always evokes many emotions – commented Rita Ovest Lupo, visiting the rooms of the structure in which the poet spent days struggling with the composition of La Ginestra with his friend Rnieri. – In this naturalistic setting, at the foot of the Vesuvius, between heaven and earth, it seems that the convulsive present launches arrows of melancholy at the romantic nineteenth century, which in Leopardi had the authoritative voice of an Indefinite Infinite.”
