'A village of books', the festival dedicated to Gennaro Leone

Friday September 3st a Casertavecchia – after the success of the preview on August 28th, with the exhibition debate by Patrizia Posillipo – A Hamlet of Books, conceived by Luigi Ferraiuolo. The event was dedicated to the young Gennaro Leone, killed by a knife wound from a peer, with the approval of the mayor Carlo Marino:

"While we work to make our Borgo more beautiful and welcoming - the stone-fenced community from which our "common home" originates - a young life has been broken and cancelled in the din of the movida. There will be those who ask for order, those who profess words of forgiveness, those who seek revenge, those who will think that it is normal in the madness of these years: in which despite the accumulated history we have not been able to defend our soul from the pandemic, as from the plague in past centuries. We hope that everyone understands that the only salvation from this madness is culture: told as stories, emotions, knowledge, travel, poetry, images and cinema and everything that makes us beautiful inside; and faith: in God or in our neighbor. The theme of the Casertavecchia book and culture festival in general this year is the symbolic image of the "Book Dealers", an evocative and contradictory theme: the drug dealer is an evil in himself in today's mentality, the one who sells books actually does good.

We had already chosen it last spring, with the aim of fighting alienation from life, especially among young people. It has become dramatically topical, we would have gladly done without it. Dealing books - adds the creator Luigi Ferraiuolo - means fighting addictions to every silly idea, promoting a straight back, traveling the world, and ultimately fighting violence. This is the reason why we immediately chose to dedicate the festival to the young Gennaro Leone".

Friday September 3st
Casertavecchia Cathedral
20pmThe Attanasio Murder: Death of an Ambassador".

The author Matteo Giusti, journalist “Limes”; talks with Ambassador Giuseppe Mistretta, Central Director of the Farnesina with delegation for Africa; Francesco Eriberto D'Ippolito, Director of the Department of Political Sciences at the Luigi Vanvitelli University; Michele Lanna, professor of political and social communication at the Luigi Vanvitelli University. Moderated by Antonio Casaccio, Magazine Informare

21pmThe Boss's Revenge: The Murder of Giuseppe Salvia"

Federico Cafiero de Raho, National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor, talks with the author Antonio Mattone and Don Nicola Buffolano, parish priest of the proto-cathedral of Caserta; with a testimony by Antonino salvia, son of Giuseppe. Moderator Claudio Coluzzi, journalist il Mattino

Saturday 4rd September
Piazza del Duomo
19pmLike Dolphins Among Sharks The Franco-Italian Noir"
Francois Morlupi talks with Mauro Desiderio, engineer; and Antonia Golino, architect. Moderated by Ornella Mincione, journalist Il Mattino

20pmThe Prisoners Giuseppe Taliercio"

Pierluigi Vito, essayist; in conversation with Claudio Del Vecchio, Provincial Secretariat of Fnp Cisl Caserta. Moderated by Antonio Arricale, journalist

21pmThe procession of ghostsi ”
Gianluca Lioni talks with Arianna Quarantotto, teacher at Liceo Armando Diaz Caserta and Renato Iaselli, lawyer. Moderated by Lidia Luberto, journalist Il Mattino

Sunday September 5th
Piazza Duomo
19pmThey from Caserta“. Ignazio Senatore talks with Alessandro Ciambrone, architect; Giuseppe Nuzzo, director; Rossana Ferraro, lawyer. Moderated by Franco Tontoli, journalist Il Mattino

20pmLooking for Beethoven“. Saverio Simonelli talks with Pietro Condorelli, Professor of jazz guitar and improvisation at the San Pietro a Majella Conservatory; and Filippo Morace, bass baritone. Moderated by Antonio Luisé, journalist Primarete Stereo

21pmThe Divine Comedy in Neapolitan“, with Marilena Lucente, Roberto Solofria and Ilaria Delli Paoli. Music by Paky Di Maio

Wednesday 8 September
Piazza Duomo
19pmMy eyes tell: 1981 /2021"
Ciro Santangelo talks with Emiliano Casale, Councilor for Major Events of the Municipality of Caserta; and Enzo Battarra, art critic. Moderated by Luigi Fusco, journalist

20pmThat Place Forbidden to Me/ Body of Bread"

Elisa Ruotolo, writer and poet; in conversation with Nicoletta Alaia, literary critic

Thursday September 9st
Piazza del Duomo
19pmLuigi Vanvitelli and the beauty of Caserta. Books compared” Giuseppe De Nitto, historian; and Lidia Falcone, archaeologist; in conversation with Vittorio Pisanti, journalist
20pmThe work that will save us"
Marco Bentivogli talks with Don Tonino Palmese, President of the Polis Foundation and professor of Theology at the Theological Faculty of Southern Italy. Moderated by Silvia De Santis, journalist “On Tuesday"

Friday September 10st
Piazza del Duomo
19pmThe Transparent Matter"
Giorgio Agnisola, art critic Avvenire; in conversation with Maria Adele Del Vecchio, artist; and Maria Carmela Masi, art historian. Moderator: Maria Teresa Perrotta, journalist «Cronache di Caserta»

20pmThe Useful Idiot"
Antimo Cesaro talks with Marianna Pignata, professor of History of Italian Law at Luigi Vanvitelli University; and Antonio Tisci, Vice Director of the Department of Political Sciences at Luigi Vanvitelli University

Saturday 11rd September
Piazza del Duomo
18pmThe Look Elsewhere Produces Imperfect Interlocks"
Antonia D'Oria and Ludovica Russo talk with Martina Onofrio, journalist

19pmEkatomere: Contemporary Decameron"
The authors Paolo Miggiano, Alessia Guerriero, Michele J.Ciervo, Daniela Volpecina in conversation

20pmMelancholic all my life"
Diego De Silva talks with Francesco Della Calce, film critic; Luca Gallone, series actor Melancholic Lawyer.

22 B&B Conte Spencer

"Romantic Bibliomancy Under the Stars“: discovering books with a natural voice and on a lawn, protected only by a blanket In collaboration with the movement “In all… Free"

Sunday September 12
Apelibro, Panoramic Terrace From Teresa
18pmThe kitchen of Giovan Battista Basile"
Manuela Piancastelli, essayist; in conversation with Sandro Manna, Slow Food Caserta; and Lidia Luberto, journalist
In collaboration with Slow Food Caserta

Piazza del Duomo
19pmThe Legend of the Malombra"
Vincenzo Sacco talks with Lucia Di Bello, lawyer; and Michele Di Fraia, lawyer. Moderated by Giulia Della Cioppa, journalist
20 hours "Dostoevsky's"
Lectio scenica in honor of Fyodor Dostoevsky
from an idea by Luigi Ferraiuolo, in collaboration with the Oriental University and the Luigi Vanvitelli University. Michela Venditti, professor of Russian Literature at the Oriental University of Naples, talks about her Dostoevsky; together with Bella Takushinova, a Russian native speaker at the Luigi Vanvitelli University; and some students. Moderated by the journalist Martina Orecchio

23 pm Boutique Hotel Bishops Palace / Cathedral Square
"Baudelaire from the Chamber" or "Les trois chambres de Baudelaire"
Scenic action in memory of the bicentenary of the birth of Baudelaire and Giovannella Fusco Girard, teacher of French and Baudelaire, from an idea by Luigi Ferraiuolo. Direction and writing by Maria Pia Dell'Omo with the consultancy of Serena De Luca Bosso. With the participation of Ludovica and Martina Semente, Carolina Iazzetta, Fabiana Errico and Davide Volpe

24pmSee you in 2022"
DJ sets lowercase
Farewell party for the next edition
Stories of the Village
The Castle and the enchanted village of Casertavecchia
Ancient Caserta Castle
Via Torre crossing
18-19pm (except Sunday)
Every day, visit of the Castle by the children of the Tifatina Library

Exhibitions
North Africa Photographic Exhibition by Patrizia Posillipo – Cathedral
Photographic Exhibition Contest 2020 – Boutique Hotel Palazzo dei Vescovi
Exhibition "Images of a Village of Books" - Eremo San Vitaliano, Casola di Caserta