'My Siani', presentation of the volume produced by 'Il Mattino' 37 years after his death

"My Siani". Presentation of the volume produced by the newspaper "Il Mattino" 37 years after his death.

From the Minister of Justice Marta Cartabia to the director Marco Risi, from the former Napoli footballer Ciro Ferrara to the actor Alessandro Siani. There are testimonies from numerous figures from the worlds of culture, sport, entertainment, the judiciary, journalism and civil society in the new volume, “Il mio Siani”, which the daily newspaper “Il Mattino” will give as a gift to its readers on Friday 23 September to remember Giancarlo Siani on the 37th anniversary of his death at the hands of the Camorra.

The book will be presented as a national preview on Wednesday, September 21st at 11.30:2003 a.m. in the Sala degli Angeli at Suor Orsola Benincasa University, home since 2008 to the first School of Journalism in Southern Italy, with a classroom named after Giancarlo Siani in XNUMX. The presentation will also be livestreamed on the website www.ilmattino.it and on the Facebook pages of "Il Mattino" (www.facebook.com/ilmattino.it) and the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples (www.facebook.com/unisob).

The presentation of the book, which will be introduced by the Rector of Suor Orsola, Lucio d'Alessandro, will be attended by the director of “Il Mattino”, Francesco De Core, the president of the Fondazione Pol.is, Don Tonino Palmese, the editor of the volume “Il mio Siani”, Pietro Perone and the president of the Giancarlo Siani Foundation, Gianmario Siani. During the meeting there will be testimonies from two of the over two hundred students of the “Suor Orsola Benincasa” School of Journalism (Ciro Cuozzo of “Il Riformista” and Gennaro Di Biase of “Il Mattino”) who over the last twenty years have followed the ever-living 'lesson' of Giancarlo Siani's professional thought and action (“being a journalist is feeling the injustice of the world on your own skin, it is taking the side of truth, it is denunciation, it is research, it is curiosity, it is in-depth analysis”).

During the presentation, some of the most significant texts of the volume will be entrusted to the actorial reading of Nadia Carlomagno, director of the Master in Theatre, Pedagogy and Didactics of the Suor Orsola Benincasa University.

"In the classrooms of Suor Orsola, and not just in the one dedicated to him for nearly fifteen years, the memory of Giancarlo Siani's teachings is as alive as ever," emphasizes Rector Lucio d'Alessandro, "and is kept constantly alive by the lessons of the many "journalists," as he would have called them, who for twenty years have guided the two-year training program of our young trainees with a specific vocation for investigative journalism."

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“Giancarlo Siani was a rare star, one of those that do not disappear in the light of the sun but rather are pure light.

Moreover, as Armando D'Alterio, public prosecutor of the first degree trial of the killers and instigators of the murder of Giancarlo Siani and today Attorney General of the Republic at the Court of Appeal of Potenza, writes in the book, "the figure of Giancarlo has never seemed so close and current: commitment, respect and ideal coherence emanate from his professional activity and his life and are values ​​that today we need more than ever".

The book edited by the journalist Pietro Perone also contains contributions and memories, even intimate ones, from journalists from “Il Mattino” who worked with Giancarlo, such as Daniela De Crescenzo (“Anger and Justice”, Francesco Romanetti (“That Evening…Pain and Courage”) and Marilicia Salvia (“The Two of Us in Castellamare”).

But in the book, as the director of “Il Mattino”, Francesco De Core, says, there are above all “Giancarlo’s glasses, his green Mehari, his typewriter, Vomero and Torre Annunziata, Vasco Rossi, the joy of living, the sensitivity in analysis and the accuracy in details that distinguished his pen”. There are all his images, not faded at all, that make him so current and so present almost forty years after his martyrdom.

"Remembering Giancarlo, with the third consecutive book by Il Mattino, thirty-seven years after his martyrdom and on the fortieth anniversary of the anti-Camorra movement," writes Perone, "is a bolster to collective memory so that Siani's courage, like that of the many who were young like him at the time, can serve as an example to those who unfortunately live with the same terrible fears today, suffocated by a criminal organization that has changed face, perhaps less brazen than Cutolo's but more powerful and equally bloodthirsty."

Info and complete program of the presentation on:

www.unisob.na.it/events