ACQUAPENDENTE (Viterbo) – As part of the presentation evening of Michele Zatta’s book “Forse un Altro”, the mayor Alessandra Terrosi and the deputy Monica Putano Bisti officially presented the third cultural event at the Fonte della Rugarella.
Guest on Friday 5 July at 9.30 pm the writer Dacia Maraini with the book “In the name of Hypatia”.
Among the most accredited presentation criticisms is that of the Solferino non-fiction publishing house which has only started its activity continuously for six years. Here is the content: “The astronomer Hypatia, who lived in Alexandria in the 5th century AD, theorized in an unheard-of way for her time that the Earth is not the center of the universe but a planet that revolves around the Sun. And she soon became a victim of Christian fanatics. “Today,” writes Dacia Maraini, “almost two thousand years later there are still women who suffer like her for the simple reason that they thought with their own heads, who wanted to study, investigate and oppose totalitarianism.” They are mistreated, insulted, threatened women, who often reported domestic violence, but were not believed. Lonely and abandoned women. Women who fight for their rights all over the world, from the Middle East to the West. Even where we think we can say that civilization has reached its most mature age. In these pages, the writer who has given life in her novels to unforgettable literary protagonists (one for all: Marianna Ucrìa) gives voice to the nameless women of every country fighting for dignity.. Putting down in black and white a true female manifesto, a passionate denunciation that tells of the slavery that survives and the walls still to be demolished, the freedoms denied and the necessary rebellion. An engaging appeal on the destiny of women against all stereotypes and violence.”
