Vietri, La Congrega Letteraria presents the historical essay by Professor Carmine Pinto. Wednesday, January 18, “The Brigand and the General. The War of Carmine Crocco and Emilio Pallavicini di Priola” at the Council Chamber of the Municipality of Vietri sul Mare.
At the opening of its tenth cultural review, La Congrega Letteraria di Vietri sul Mare presents, “Il brigane e il generale. La guerra di Carmine Crocco e Emilio Pallavicini di Priola”, a historical essay by Prof. Carmine Pinto, director of the Department of Humanistic Studies at the University of Salerno. A volume published by Editori Laterza.
The appointment is for Wednesday, January 18, at 18:00 p.m., at the Council Chamber of the Municipality of Vietri sul Mare, in C.so Umberto I 83. After the greetings of the mayor Dr. Giovanni de Simone, the following will talk with the author: Prof. Antonio Gazia, artistic director of La Congrega Letteraria, and Dr. Vincenzo Pedace; the meeting will be moderated by the journalist Aniello Palumbo. On the sidelines of the evening, organized thanks to the collaborative contribution of the Pro Loco of Vietri sul Mare and the Mondadori Bookstore of Nocera Inferiore, the municipal gallery “Viaggio attraverso la ceramica” will be open to visitors.
The wise
Immediately after the Unification, Italy found itself fighting a real civil war, the one for the South. A war that had among its protagonists a brigand and a general, Carmine Crocco and Emilio Pallavicini di Priola. A bold heir of the feudal world against a bold swordsman aristocrat, the last army of the ancient regime against the first national army. A story that still today arouses emotions and divides. In the first decade of unified Italy, these two men, very distant in origin and education, were the best-known protagonists of the war for the South. Carmine Pinto tells their 'parallel lives' and, through these, the episodes, the places, the battles and the legends, the war, up to the final clash and the surprising epilogue of their existences.
Carmine Pinto (Padula, 1972) is a historian and writer. He graduated in Modern Literature and obtained a PhD in Industrial History. In 2005 he won the competition for a researcher in Contemporary History; he was subsequently appointed associate professor in this subject at the University of Salerno. From 2021 to 2022, by appointment of the Minister for Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, he was Director of the Institute for the History of the Italian Risorgimento. He has dealt with the political history of Republican Italy and is interested in war and civil conflicts in the formation of Mediterranean and Latin American national states in the 2019th century. Currently, the history of Southern Italy is at the center of his research work. In 1860, again for Laterza, “The War for the South. Italians, Bourbons and Brigands. 1870-XNUMX”, awarded, among other recognitions, the Basilicata Literary Prize, the Fiuggi Storia Prize, the Città di Montesano Prize, the Sele d'Oro Prize, the Rende Book Festival Prize and the Città di Siderno Literary Prize.
Article published on 16 January 2023 - 19:40
