Mattia Villardita, the Spiderman who visits children in hospital, will be interviewed at the Campania Libri Festival by the director of the Elsa Morante Prize Tiuna Notarbartolo and by the director of the Rai Production Center of Naples Antonio Parlati.
Naples. The most famous superhero in Italy, Mattia Villardita, returns to the microphones of the Elsa Morante Award. As part of the Campania Libri Festival at the Teatrino di Corte of the Royal Palace of Naples, Thursday 6 October at 12,00:XNUMX, the director of Morante Tiuna Notarbartolo and the director of the Rai Production Center of Naples Antonio Parlati will interview Villardita about his book Spiderman.
Our superhero dedicates a lot of time to volunteering, he was awarded the knighthood of the Republic by President Sergio Mattarella. Pope Francis also wanted to meet him in person, and invited him to the Vatican. This year, his book won the Elsa Morante Social Prize and the Elsa Morante Schools Prize. The spearhead of Salani, Villardita will be accompanied to Naples by the director Maria Grazia Mazzitelli. The book that the author will present at the Teatrino di Corte is a true story that begins with a seven-year-old boy who stares out of a hospital window. Mattia hopes that Spider-Man will appear at any moment, jumping between buildings and dangling from one of his legendary webs. After all, when you are forced to spend many days in a hospital bed, you have to find a way to deceive the boredom. It takes imagination, and that little guy has a lot of it, along with a lot of courage. Twenty years and many operations later, Mattia has become a tall, smiling boy.
His health continues to play tricks—his legs, in particular, have prevented him from playing goalkeeper for a football team or following his father's military career—but nothing stops him from looking to the future with confidence.
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Partners of these days, in which the synergy between the Elsa Morante Award, the Campania dei Festival Foundation and the Campania Region is a winning one, are the Rai of Naples, in the year of its sixtieth anniversary, the Grand Hotel Oriente, a true refuge for stars, the Al 53 restaurant, which tells the story of Naples through culinary art, and Giannini Editore.
All events are free to attend.
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