Some have called it a “perfect October 22” for Torre Annunziata, mixing in the good religious news of the return of the Procession of the Madonna della Neve – after three years of stoppage dictated by the raging of Covid from Coronavirus.
Then the good sporting news of the victory of Irma Testa, the first Italian female boxer (editor's note: what is the feminine: boxeuse?) to become European champion in Budva, Croatia, after a difficult start to the tournament.
In short, for one day the people of Oplontina, the Torresi citizens of Torre Annunziata, tortured and humiliated in recent times by administrative and political scandals due to various events, more or less shady, were able to smile.
In a flurry of confessions and more or less reliable denunciations that have found their culmination - and the height of bearability - in the hypothesis of Camorra infiltration and blackmailing of the glorious Savoy. The news has caused such a stir that it has mobilized none other than Emanuele Filiberto. Him, the star of TV in television programs of questionable quality, son of the pretender to the Throne of Italy, Vittorio Emanuele di Savoia, in turn son of Umberto, the King of May.
All three, for the writer, a balanced but determined southerner, have only one but decisive defect: being direct heirs of Vittorio Emanuele II, who took over the throne of Italy, after having annexed the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies with a criminal war to the point of ferocity and a subsequent farcical plebiscite of Putinian type. And he did so, keeping his own name of king "Vittorio Emanuele II" - Last King of Sardinia and first King of Italy. Without changing it, in contempt of his new condition of "arriving" on a throne, the throne of Italy, which - without the decisive support of England - he could only have dreamed of. Not a hair more.
Well, the super-billionaire Emanuele Filiberto – after having immediately clarified that he does not want to lose a single euro – has said he is available to support Savoia in football, promoting a group of “responsible” people, to use a term of current political interest. Welcome.
But the citizens of Torre del Greco could also do without that thrifty help. They could, for example, do for the Savoia team what they did on the occasion of the “procession” of the Madonna della Neve for which, despite the commitment of the energetic and active Monsignor Russo, Commissioner Serra had only approved a spending commitment of Seven thousand Euros, compared to the Thirty thousand foreseen.
Even though the “procession of the Brown Madonna” was anomalous due to the effects of the orientation – prudent beyond what was necessary, also in terms of public safety – taken by those who did not want the processional procession, the residents of Torre del Greco and the merchants of the streets crossed by the sacred Image responded with a splendid lesson in civility. Yes, exactly, surprising everyone. Even the writer. But above all, they sent an unequivocal signal to the municipal or commissioner administrations, present, past and future, infiltrated or unharmed, as we hope, for a future of redemption of Torre del Greco and the district.
In fact, they have decorated their shops and stores to welcome “their” Madonna della Neve, almost reawakening an out-of-time Christmas atmosphere. With a decisive outburst of Torre Annunziata civic pride, they have redeemed years of melancholic decline of the City of Torre Annunziata and its civic values of a hard-working and welcoming city, already appreciated by Goethe in the eighteenth century. In fact, the great Goethe, after having stopped in Torre della, Annunciata in the year 1787, then in his famous “Journey to Italy” wrote: “We had lunch in Torre Annunziata with the table set right on the seashore. Everyone was happy to live in those places, some claimed that without the view of the sea it would be impossible to live. For me it is enough that that image remains alive in my spirit.”
A day, therefore, lived as winners by the devotees of the Madonna della Neve with the short procession, which headed to the port and then went back up to Piazza Cesàro, where the plaque was unveiled to commemorate the miracle of the Madonna who stopped the eruption of Vesuvius, in the presence of the prefectorial commissioners Serra and Mone and the new senator Orfeo Mazzella, to then conclude in Piazza Giovanni XXIII.
Federico LI Federico
Article published on 24 October 2022 - 15:24
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