'Orme Contadine', in Castelvenere the presentation of Pasquale Carlo's book

Twenty stories that tell the ancient bond with the land of wise people and uncontaminated humanity that animated the peasant civilization of Castelvenere in the 900th century.

'Orme contadine – Storia di resilienza castelvenerese' is the title of Pasquale Carlo's latest book. The work will be presented on Saturday 13th January (at 18 pm) in the setting of the Enoteca Comunale di Castelvenere.

The following will participate in the meeting together with the author: Alessandro Di Santo (Mayor of Castelvenere), Errico Formichella (CEO & Founder of Sef Consulting, a management consulting firm), Emilio Bove (President of the Istituto Storico Sannio Telesino), Michelangelo Fetto (actor and theater director), Paolo Speranza (literary and film critic) and Antonio Conte (teacher, former Senator of the Republic). The meeting will be moderated by journalist Gianrocco Rossetti.
The book collects twenty stories drawn from the immense emotional and biographical heritage of the Castelvenere community. The protagonists are the ordinary people who animated 80th-century Castelvenere, the rural Castelvenere that remained immune—at least until the 50s—to the consequences of the epochal divide that reached its peak in Italy with the economic boom of the 60s and XNUMXs.

Today, just over half a century later, the El Dorado of industrialization and wealth is exposing all its flaws. Our eyes are staring, unveiled, at the end of the myth of big business as the panacea for development, the damage wrought by the frenzied rush toward a model that sacrificed the principles of balance that governed the peasant world. That world, while not a place of happiness, was a source of ever-timely knowledge, useful for looking to the future with courage. This is not, therefore, a nostalgic undertaking, but rather the rediscovery of the ancient bond with the land of humble people, of great wisdom and uncontaminated humanity. Values ​​that today constitute a lifeline.

"Tell about the history, the characters, the agricultural production, the water and the hills of Castelvenere – we read in the introduction by Michelangelo Fetto – For our author, it is a way to describe humanity, its vices and virtues, taking advantage of a privileged watchtower, a sort of stethoscope useful for listening to the pulse of social, cultural, and political change in this and many other similar realities, differing only in geographical location and linguistic inflection. All this allows him, ultimately, to describe the world through the story of his own community.