Press release
NUSCO – Documentation Center on the South (Italy) poetry

There is an insistent common place.  For a long time Nusco, but that idea the Member Cyriac De Mita has for a long time fixed, has been indicated like a diligent political laboratory.
Much reference, for the continuous pushes and aspirations, at present has new amplitudes and openings.
The country town, already destined to museum of the diocese of S. Angelo, Conza, Nusco and Bisaccia – a strongly plan would from Father Salvador Nunnari, bishop of the Church altirpina – now opens the doors to the “Documentation Center on the South (Italy) poetry”. A tie with more threads between faith, politics, culture and art. A proposal that, leaving from the inner zones, wants to claim spaces and credibility in the national culture.
The Center is proposed to connect the various institutional truths of the territory (Municipality, Mountain Communities, Provinces, Region, University and Theater) in order to expand by gemmation towards all southern range. In the specific it means to collect and to study the entire poetical production of the South, starting from the Irpinia and the Campania, so as to allow to rewrite the Italian literary history, from which henceforth has been excluded the southern poetry, in the last centuries.
The first steps, promoter the communal administration of Nusco, that has located the seat in the gentilitial palace Astrominica, are entrusted to the presentation of the book of Joseph Iuliano  Voli e nuvoli (Helium Sellino Publisher), a collection that has inaugurated the serie of “Southern Culture” directed by Paul Saggese. All is fixed up  saturday 16 October 2004 to hours 17,00 p. m. in the auditorium of the episcopal Palace. The mayor Giuseppe Del Giudice, the councillor responsible to the culture Maria Grace Valentino, the President of the Mountain Community “Terminio-Cervialto” Nicholas Di Iorio and the Member Alberta De Simone, President of the Provincial Administration. University professors Aniello Montano and Philip D' Oria, respectively belonging to the University of Salerno and Corfù, the journalist-writer Aldous de Francesco and Joseph Liuccio will talk about the book. Narrating voice Herman Saveriano. Is much waited the exhibition of chansonnier Franco Nico of the Sancarluccio Theater of Naples, with ballades that came earlier imminent recital “Rocco Scotellaro and the poets of the South”. A choise of art and civil passion, matured on the texts of Gatto and Quasimodo, today to the search of a new season and other voices.

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