The presentation of Annamaria Ghedina's new book, Pompeii, a Forbidden Story: Love and Death in the Shadow of Vesuvius, published by DeNigris Editore, was a resounding success and a major audience. The event was held as part of the Campania Libri Festival in the Sala Cristallo at the Royal Palace.
The moderator was journalist Antonio D'Addio, a professor of Latin and Greek who also wrote the preface. Other speakers included publisher Armando De Nigris, Nino Daniele, former Councilor for Culture and Tourism for the City of Naples, former mayor of Ercolano, and a respected scholar who wrote the introduction to the book, and the talented actress Tiziana De Giacomo, who read several passages with passion and participation, captivating the audience.
The text tells a beautiful and compelling love story between a prostitute and a military commander, a friend of the emperor Titus Flavius Vespasian, set in Pompeii, in the first century AD.
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The female protagonist is a young Greek girl, Eutychis, from Lesbos, petite, blonde, passionate about verses and quotes from the greatest poets of the time, who is kidnapped by rough soldiers and taken, along with many other girls, to Rome, to the Imperial Palace, to practice the profession of slave, a whore, who was paid only two asses and who practiced in the House of the Vettii, while the male protagonist is the Tribunus Manlius Decius Rutilius, trusted friend of the emperor Vespasian, strong, romantic, who falls in love, at first sight, with the sweet and naive Eutychis, a real love at first sight with a dramatic epilogue. In the background the military campaigns to conquer new territories and the daily routine of a few millennia ago. Our author recounts customs, habits, traditions, entertainment, banquets, parties, the rough life of the Baths and the rigid and disciplined life of the Castra, climbs into the difficult and risky world of prostitution, reveals sometimes unknown aspects and turns the spotlight on the intimate life, secrets, vices and perversions of the human race.
The scope of action goes from 78 AD to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79, a tragedy that was described, admirably, by Pliny the Younger, in two letters addressed to the historian Tacitus. Among those present were journalists Maresa Galli, Alberto Alovisi, Luigi Ventriglia, Idalba Russo, Maria Consiglia Izzo, Enrico Deuringer, Manuela De Rosa, authors Gaia Zucchi, Annalisa De Gregorio, Mariantonia Iannantuoni, Maria Gargotta, Yvonne Carbonaro, and again, Tamara Torre, Gerry Danesi, Ugo Loparco, Gennaro D'Aria and many others. Photo by Giuseppe Moggia.
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