Detective fiction in the shadow of Vesuvius turns 172.
The Festival del Giallo Città di Napoli celebrates the birthday of the paper crimes with the fifth stage of the Tour del Giallo entirely dedicated to Maurizio de Giovanni. Saturday 30 September and Sunday 1 October 2023
The writer from Vomero, one of the most loved and followed crime authors in Italy, will close the beautiful walks promoted by the Department of Tourism of the Municipality of Naples as part of the event Vedi Napoli d'estate e poi torni, and built around the origins and development of a timeless literary genre.
The Tours of Giallo Città di Napoli, conceived and directed by Ciro Sabatino, are moving towards the fifth and final stage, and they are doing so in Vomero with Maurizio de Giovanni. In search of the places of his characters, but also in search of the motivations that led the creator of Commissioner Ricciardi, the Bastards of Pizzofalcone, Sara Morozzi and Mina Settembre, to undertake his journey into genre fiction.
Five stages, five great authors and five great beginnings. Mastriani (1851), Serao (1907), Di Giacomo (1893), Veraldi (1976). Then the closing with de Giovanni who introduced the city to the commissioner who speaks to the dead in 2006 and who to date has written 13 gripping stories of that character, read in half of Europe.
First appointment Saturday 30 September 2023 at 10,30 sharp.
We will start from a mysterious location (reachable only by discovering a clue that will be sent to all members privately), then we will walk together in a mysterious and magical Naples, meeting a series of people who will tell the literary journey of the writer from Vomero. Friends, journalists, writers, actors who worked with him will reveal small anecdotes that are little known to the general public. While the next day, Sunday 1 October, again at 10,30:XNUMX and again in a mysterious location, the author himself will accompany his readers in a piece of his life and his memories.
The final appointment also to celebrate together the success of the initiative wanted by the councilor Teresa Armato. Over six hundred registered for ten walks that developed throughout the month of September between the historic center, Chiaia and Vomero. The Festival del Giallo accompanied the fans of the genre between salita Tarsia and salita Pontecorvo where Francesco Mastriani wrote Il mio cadavere, visited with them the ancient Miccio warehouses, in the exact spot where the Delitto di via Chiatamone written by Matilde Serao took place, searched between piazzetta Ascensione and the Villa Comunale for traces of the six stories included in the collection Pipa e boccale in which Salvatore Di Giacomo revealed his passion for the gothic atmospheres of Edgar Allan Poe, then went down the Petraio stairs to see again all the places where Il vomerese, the unforgettable spy story by Attilio Veraldi, was imagined.
The public has passionately followed this journey into the heart of popular literature, discovering that Naples can, without a doubt, claim to be the father of Giallo in Italy.
Once the Tours are over (with a queue on Saturday 7 October to make up for the appointment missed due to rain and dedicated to Veraldi), the Festival will give birth to a real Club of Giallo in Naples where people can meet and share their passions.
Info
Also planned for the Fifth Stage are two two-hour events (one on Saturday morning and one on Sunday morning) with free admission, but only by reservation and until seats are filled.
Reservations must be made by calling the Iocisto bookshop (081.5780421), co-organiser of the event.
Article published on 27 September 2023 - 10:30
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