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Roberto Franchini Paola Fedriga Anna Maria Martina Paola Fedriga Pierfrancesco Pacoda

Nuova Arrivederci A passo 22epica 24a Caracas di danza italiana See you To the rhythm A new in Caracas of dance Italian epic

fotografie di Pierfrancesco Pacoda Claudio Bacilieri Andrea Samaritani

2 Trimestrale d’informazione dell' Agenzia informazione e ufficio stampa della Giunta della Regione Emilia-Romagna e della Consulta degli emiliano-romagnoli nel mondo. N. I - Anno XIII Marzo 2010

Direttore responsabile Chief Editor Roberto Franchini

Segreteria di redazione Editing Coordinator Rita Soffritti

Direzione - Redazione Editorial Office Viale Aldo Moro, 52 40127 Bologna Telefono (+39) 051/5275440 Fax (+39) 051/5275389 Internet: www.regione.emilia-romagna.it E-mail per cambio indirizzo: [email protected] Pubblicazione registrata col n. 5080 presso il Tribunale di Bologna L’ocarina Ferrari il 30 aprile 1994 conquista su20 due ruote Progetto grafico Graphics l’Oriente Ferrari Moruzzi’s Communications Group (BO) The ocarina on two wheels takes over Stampa e spedizione Printing & mailing the East Labanti e Nanni (BO)

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Rubriche 16 - 28 - 38 45 Regione & Notizie LETTERE Region & News

3 Tr a n s l a t i o n s a t p a g e 48 Antico,” written after the death of his son Dante. Th e g r e a t - The tree still exists in the courtyard in what was g r a n d p a r e n t s once the residence of the poet in via Broccain- o f t h e f o r e s t dosso in Bologna, which is known today as the by Paola Fedriga House of the Pomegranate. ❦

hey are patriarchs just like Abraham, Isaac Tand Jacob, the progenitors of the Jewish Th e l a b o r a t o r i e s people with whom they share their ancient age INDEX OF THE TRANSLATIONs o f t h e f u t u r e and perhaps that wisdom that comes from hav- by Anna Maria Martina ing lived a long time and having seen so much. Tr a d u z i o n i : Benedict School, a cura di Agata Bienna e Bruna De Luca These, however, are not people but trees. More Th e g r e a t -g r a n d p a r e n t s romoting industrial research and transfer- 48 by Paola Fedriga precisely, about a thousand centuries-old trees o f t h e f o r e s t Pring scientific knowledge and results to- that the Association of Forli “Patriarchs of Na- wards a productive system. This goal of the Th e l a b o r a t o r i e s 48 by Anna Maria Martina ture in Italy” have conducted a census of, in o f t h e f u t u r e Emilia-Romagna Region, which in recent years Emilia-Romagna: chestnut, mulberry, hazel, ol- has brought to life a net of structures dedicated ive trees, but also pines, service trees and jujubes En e r g y ? 49 by Paola Fedriga to specific subjects of industrial interest, is com- that have arrived from distant eras. It’s underground ing to an end with the foundation of ten tech- Trees which have managed to reach the exorbi- nopolies, which will constitute the new and wide Th e o c a r i n a 49 by Pierfrancesco Pacoda tant age of eight hundred, sometimes even one t a k e s o v e r t h e Ea s t high technology net. The fields in which these thousand, and that day after day, month after labs will operate are mechanical technology and Fe r r a r i month, despite wars, bad weather and disease, 49 by Renato Bertacchini new materials, food farming, construction, life continue to contribute to the great breath of the o n t w o w h e e l s science, energy, environment, information and universe. The region of Emilia-Romagna has Se e y o u communication technology, and design. 50 by Claudio Bacilieri dedicated two photographic volumes to a selec- i n Ca r a c a s We are dealing with physical places in where tion of the great elderly of nature, approximately research labs will take up office and will be able To u r i s t s 200 blossoming patriarchs, where their charac- 50 by Anna Maria Martina to expand and organize themselves to work with b y t h e Po teristics and peculiarities are described. The ef- corporations. This project has taken up 234 mil- fect is a particularly suggestive journey in the Th e Sp o o n Ri v e r lion (130 from the Region, 90 from Universities 51 by Claudio Bacilieri discovery of not only the flora but also of the o f Em i l i a and from research centres, 14 from local enter- territory. The oldest of them all is probably a prises that contribute to providing areas and in- chestnut tree in Monteombraro, a hamlet of the , where the olive tree is many peasant families. The mulberry was pre- frastructure). In fact, technopolies are develop- municipality, in the province of . thought to be 700 years old. The olive tree of cious for its leaves (that constituted the basic diet ing scientific university campuses, like those in It is a true celebrity in this area, there are signs Tabiano presents another element of great inter- of silkworm), but also for its fruit, mulberries, Parma and Modena, with areas dedicated exclu- indicating it, making it easy to find. The folk est: it belongs to a variety which is unknown to- which are very hard to find these days, and fi- sively to industrial research or realizing the reuti- tradition dates it back even to the times of Mat- day. In fact, these old plants are also very often nally for its particularly luxuriant branches lization and requalification of areas and indus- ilde of Canossa, between 1050 and 1100. It is 12 the last carriers of genetic patrimony which no which offered shelter in the heat of the Po region trial and urban sites of great value like Bologna, meters tall and the circumference of its trunk longer exists and which should be studied and summer. For this reason, mulberries were almost Ravenna, Faenza, Forlì, Cesena, Rimini, Spilam- base arrives at 15 meters. It is not the only speci- protected. In these situations the historical inter- always situated in the middle of the country berto, , Reggio Emilia and Piacenza men that belongs to this species. The cultivation est goes side by side with the scientific and natu- courtyard, where they also served the purpose of (where the Polytechnic and the Cattolica of Mi- of chestnuts in the Emilian Apennine was wide- ralistic interests, besides for the commitment to lightening conductors. One of the oldest mul- lan have their seat). “The work of the technopo- spread and important and constituted a precious promote the recovery of traditional varieties that berries noted is almost 200 years old and is lies,” explains the president of the Region, Vasco means of support for generations of farmers and are typical of the region and in this way to stop found in , in the province of Reggio Errani, “represents a strategic choice in improv- this is also why they are so numerous and centu- the loss of biodiversity. Emilia, right in the centre of the town, in a ing the quality of the new economy in our facto- ries old. The chestnut of Corneto in Brisighella, It is also still unclear what variety the Pianoro square which today is used as a public garden ries, food farming and in the development of the in the , is approximately 500 Vine, in the , belongs to, but that was once an open field. The mulberry of region. At the same time it proposes the con- years old and takes the name of the old village, at otherwise named the “Vine of Fantini” from the Consandolo in Argenta (Ferrara) continues to struction, through a regional platform, of an en- present abandoned, which was even quoted by name of the geologist who first photographed it give shade to the yard of a farmhouse with its terprise in order to give value to, reward and give Dante in the Divine Comedy. Moving on in in 1965. This plant could be about 340 years old, thick foliage: it is more than 15 meters tall and it work to researchers, who are the heritage of a Emilia, one cannot forget the chestnut of Ca- and is similar to the Negrettino vine, but its ori- hovers over an old farmhouse which is reached knowledge society. In this area Emilia-Romagna mugnano, in the hills of Bologna. On the trunk gin is still uncertain. The history of the Hazel of by following a street decorated with old statues. must be among the leading regions on a Euro- of this 800-year-old tree there is a sign saying Aia is also wrapped up in mystery. It is a centu- It is possible to admire an exceptionally impres- pean scale. This is not a question of publicity but “Bar of Bugeon”, a folk name given because of ries old giant, about 25 meters tall, that lives in sive double row of mulberries in Bertinoro (in concrete facts, with relevant resources invested the fact that there is a bench, which can seat up the village of the same name close to Sogliano al the province of Forlì-Cesena), in the locality of by the Region”. 160 thousand meters squared to 12 people, carved along the interior circum- Rubicone (Forlì-Cesena). It is considered a Madonna del Lago: these plants, which are still will be appointed to this objective, intended to ference of its trunk. This is not a rare case. Very unique patriarch on a European scale due to the in perfect condition despite their 140 springs, host 46 research laboratories and 7 innovation often, the enormous trunks of these trees dem- particular characteristics of its trunk and foliage, edge the entrance path to an old farmhouse. centres, 1800 researchers will be involved, of onstrate cavities that were once used as refuges which are very different from others of the same Besides for the mulberry, the cornel and the which 520 will be young researchers. The infra- and shelters for tools. species, which are often presented in the form of service tree are also “forgotten fruits”. In Bagno structural investment is worth €68 million; 54 will The presence of olive trees is less predictable. a shrub. di Romagna, also in the province of Forlì-Cese- be invested in scientific equipment, whilst 112 This type of cultivation is more often than not Among the cultivations that have marked the na, there is a very old stump of a cornel that will go to the contracts. associated with milder climates, however in history of the countryside of the Emilia-Ro- could be 500 years old, and the almost 300-year- “We are making an extraordinary commitment Emilia-Romagna, and in particular in the area of magna Region one cannot forget that of the old service tree of Becco in Predappio is one of to research and innovation, which represent the Brisighella, it has its own very important tradi- mulberry tree. There are very few surviving the tallest in Italy, 8 meters tall. Whilst, the pillars of the development of the regional and tion. Actually, the oldest olive trees among the mulberries today, the last witnesses of an econo- “green pomegranate tree, with beautiful scarlet National system,” says the Economic councilor, ones in the census, are in Tabiano, in the prov- my of subsistence in which the breeding of silk- flowers” was planted by the one and only Car- Duccio Campagnoli. The numbers of the high ince of Parma, where the stump dates back to worm was an important economic resource for ducci, who then described it in his poem “Pianto technology net project are truly those of an en- the 16th Century, and in Montegridolfo, in the

48 terprise for industrial research and indicate the the Emilia-Romagna subsoil has been carried bon capture and storage has recently been the ages of 8 and 14 will need teachers and it’s value and priority that the Region has given to out in Emilia-Romagna in order to locate the adopted in order to support these techniques for easy to imagine the professional prospects that this commitment.” most important and most suitable geothermic the saving of energy and the increase of renewa- will present themselves before the graduates of The coordination of the net will be carried out energy reserves to be exploited. The project, ble energy to reach the objectives laid out by the the course of Ferrara.” by Aster, a consort company activated by the which demonstrates the cooperation of the Re- Kyoto Protocol and the commitments taken on There is also a strong demand for concerts as the Region, Universities and research bodies and gion with numerous local administrations, like by the European Union. Finally, water instead of Budrio group is forced to refuse up to 40 per- will have a “hub” in the technopoly of Bologna the Province of Modena, the Municipality of oil and methane gas could be an efficient cure for formances a year in the East. What is the next which will be realized in the ex-factory of Bat, Ferrara and the Municipality of Brisighella, has subsidence. In fact, the introduction of sea water step? “To obtain the Doc acknowledgement for British American Tabacco, known as the To- located potential reserves at accessible depths, in enables us to fill the spaces left in the subsoil (one the ocarina of Budrio,” answers Emiliano Ber- bacco Factory. Due to the dismissal of many of particular in the northern area of the province of of the causes of the lowering of the ground level) nagozzi. “We are working on a rigorous discipli- its activities and productivity reorganization and Modena and Ferrara. For example, 400 meters from the extraction of methane gas. This is an nary which we will lay out. We would not want also due to the purchase of the area by the Re- below ground level, in the area of , experimental project being carried out in a gas people to start thinking in a couple of years that gion, a great technopoly will arise in this enor- there is a temperature of about 50 degrees Cel- field in the province of Ravenna by the Region in the ocarina is a typical Korean instrument. ❦ mous 100-thousand-meter complex. It will not sius. The geothermic potential of the subsoil are collaboration with Eni, the Municipality and only host a sizeable amount of research laborato- still only being minimally exploited. There are Province of Ravenna. ❦ ries promoted by the University of Bologna, only two very important district heating experi- Fe r r a r i Enea, the Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute, and also ences in Emilia-Romagna: in Ferrara and in o n t w o w h e e l s those proposed by important economic organi- Bagno di Romagna. “Geothermics, together Th e o c a r i n a by Renato Bertacchini zations, but it will also accommodate other with other forms of renewable energy – com- t a k e s o v e r t h e Ea s t services for the whole regional net. ❦ ments the councilor to soil and coast defense, by Pierfrancesco Pacoda rom the Apennines to the Plain, between Marioluigi Bruschini – is not a Utopia but an FEmilia Road and the West, the horses do not immediate economic and environmental neces- n South Korea, the scholastic institutions have gallop through the fields. Here they paw the En e r g y ? sity. As we wait for the Hydrogen era it is impor- Imade learning it compulsory because – they ground at four or due gallops of their engines. It’s underground tant for us to make a bigger effort in the clean claim – playing it helps the development of the They are the racing “meteors”, the cars and by Paola Fedriga energy sector, as all the macroeconomic and en- left and right cerebral hemispheres and it stimu- motorcycles that continue to have a very high vironmental indicators suggest”. A new aquifer lates intelligence and concentration. Whilst in price in the region and are the source of troubles. ew geothermic reserves in the area of has been discovered where the Po River used to Japan, the Minister of Culture advises it, espe- Accidents aside, drivers, manufacturers and NBrisighella, in the north of the province of flow more than 10 thousand years ago and rep- cially to housewives over the age of sixty who team managers have often wasted away work Modena and in the , invalu- resents a precious high quality water reserve, would like to keep their intellectual capacities fit. and patrimonies. Only Enzo Ferrari didn’t lose able in reducing the need for fossil fuels. An in- which goes from Piacenza to Rimini. Up to 2km We are not talking about a new scientific inven- out with engines, on the contrary, he earned novative regional project targeted at locating the wide and positioned 20-30meters below ground tion, but about a small handmade object made world glory and fortune. This was thanks to the most suitable areas for storing carbon dioxide, level, it was located by the region in the mapping of terracotta, which was born in Budrio in the human perseverance of the Drake, of his fero- and in this way contributing to reaching the ob- of the underground water reserves present in the middle of the 19th Century and was loved by cious and fixed determination. This “supreme jectives of the Kyoto Protocol and the commit- whole Emilia-Romagna territory. It is now being Giuseppe Verdi, who went into raptures over mechanical Moloch”, as Edmondo Berselli, ments made by the European Union regarding monitored as it seems to constitute a further the performance of his Rigoletto at the opera of from the same region, says, was the spectacular the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions (20% water reserve which is to be used, in limited time a “specialized” orchestra. We are talking about hero of an industrial adventure and after his fa- by 2020 and 50% by 2050). Yet another experi- frames, in order to guarantee the supply of water the ocarina, a musical instrument that intro- ther’s death (the owner of a small workshop with mental initiative in the province of Ravenna in the periods of greatest demand. There are two duced the small town in Emilia-Romagna to the five workers in Modena) and also that of his which aims at filling methane gas deposits with advantages in particular: it is not located deep world thanks to a global diffusion, legions of brother, he sold his mother’s precious furniture sea water, contrasting the subsidence induced by underground and so it would reduce the risk of enthusiasts, and, above all, collectors in all coun- in order to buy his first racing car. This is how he the extraction of gas; but also new high quality subsidence when extracted and it would be re- tries, which can be seen by the rare instruments founded the Scuderia Ferrari in 1929, an ex- and renewable water resources that have been filled quickly, directly from the Alps, guarantee- conserved in Museums of Music, from China to tremely difficult year due to the horrible Wall discovered along the Po River from Piacenza to ing a non-exhaustible resource. “This new avail- Canada. A recent study estimates that there are Street crisis, the downfall of the American stock Rimini. The subsoil is turning out to be a more a ability of undergound water should not, howev- about 70 thousand enthusiasts in Japan, 100 exchange and of the European market. more important resource for environmental er, make us lose sight of the three objectives of thousand in South Korea, however the craze is The place chosen is Modena, in the heart of the protection. Also Emilia-Romagna, where both our water protection plan, which remain essen- also spreading in China, while in England the Italy that counts. Then, from nearby , the Region and local enterprises have started up tial: saving, recycling and conserving water re- four-hole ocarina (even in the super cheap plastic the headquarters of the Scuderia Ferrari he will various studies and experiences in this direction, sources – adds the regional councilor to the en- version) is quickly starting to substitute the flute tell friends and coworkers, “Come here to me for is trying to take advantage of the once unknown vironment, Lino Zanichelli, who announced that in primary schools as the instrument used for I am the Pope in Maranello”. At the beginning potentials concerning the reduction of pollution “€1 200 000 has been allocated in the budget for children’s first approach to musical composition of the 30s, the Scuderia Ferrari is first on the and the exploitation of natural resources. the realization of new irrigation scheme, with a and performance. What about Italy? As of this peninsula for both racing cars and motorcycles, “The law on energy policies in the Emilia-Ro- low impact on the environment, in the province year, the Ministry of Public Schooling has started the remarkable and legendary English four- magna Region – explains the regional councilor of Parma, one of which is already in an advanced up the first university course in “Terracotta wind geared Rudges. The team’s coat of arms is a to productive activities, Duccio Campagnoli – is state”. Trapping CO2 emissions underground, instruments”, a two-year programme hosted by rampant horse. If soar through the moving in the direction of sustainable develop- where there are unused natural cavities and suit- the Frescobaldi Conservatory in Ferrara. track, this is thanks to a small black horse which ment and of respect for the Kyoto parameters. In able geological structures, is the aim of the joint “It all started from the great passion for the was given to me by my mother and was inherited order to reach these objectives we must apply all project of the Region and the Municipality of ocarina of the maestro Giorgio Fabbri, director from a famous aviator” (Francesco Baracca, who the solutions: it is important to continue experi- Ferrara, which have identified the most suitable of the Conservatory, who became active at the had the very same black horse on the fuselage of mentation in order to obtain more and more ef- “containers” for this goal, which are located at a Ministry by supporting the educational value of his plane). Motorcycle racing, the original field ficient technologies. In this hard-working region, depth of between 800 and 2000meters and with the figure of the ocarinist,” explains Emiliano of Scuderia Ferrari’s best drivers, including Tazio certainly even the subsoil will do its part.” The the greatest guarantee of capacity. These are sa- Bernagozzi, the soul of the Ocarina Group in Nuvolari and Achille Varzi, Piero Taruffi, engi- energy unleashed from the underground is not line aquifers located between the province of Budrio, who strongly fought for the foundation neer, and Luigi Fagioli. However, the real out- always the destructive force we see in earth- Ravenna and Ferrara. Experiments concerning of the course. “Last year,” he adds, “the Korean standing drivers, Ferrari’s two-wheel champions, quakes and volcano eruptions. In fact, if it is ap- the storage of carbon dioxide have already been Ministry of Culture introduced the study of the are Giordano Aldrighetti, from Milan and win- propriately directed, it can serve to heat houses carried out in the United States, Canada and ocarina in all the classes of compulsory educa- ner of the Italian Championship in 1933; Aldo ecologically. A mapping of the “hottest” zones of Germany and a European directive on the car- tion. In this way, 200 thousand children between Pigorini (from Novate Milanese), Italian Cham-

49 pion in the 250 and 500; Francesco Lami, called moments of the war. Born in Florence, Marisa a bicycle to Switzerland, where he completed Yanomamo Indians and their customs, and also the “Arrow of Faenza”. After clamorous suc- originated, on her mother’s side, from a prosper- University. When Karol Wojtyla reached Cara- El Oculto, where the protagonist is a young girl cesses in motorcycle racing, three Italian Cham- ous family from , in the Apennine of cas, Marisa and Eugenio were granted a private that is the descendent of a Dutch privateer and a pionships and 44 victories, suddenly in 1934, Modena, which included land owners, judges, audience. The Pope recognized Eugenio and cacique of the Cumanás. Ferrari’s manager entrepreneur suspended the lawyers and mayors. In Bologna she attended the said to him in Polish: “You were at the Univer- These are all anthropological novels that explain motorcycle races. No one ever asked why. Nun- primary school in via Zamboni, middle school sity of Cracow”. Three children were the fruit of the diverse world of the native inhabitants of zia Manicardi fills this gap and reveals the secret and attended Galvani Secondary School until their marriage: Leonardo, a painter, Gerardo, a Venezuela, their founder customs and myths. behind this decision with the fresh and highly the bombings over the city forced the family to musician and composer, and Donatella, a doctor. However, perhaps her most famous book is Ita- documented volume The Mystery of Ferrari’s take refuge in Sestola. The winter of 1944 was In her villa in the Florida of Caracas, which lia y los italianos en la historia y en la cultura de English Bikes (Edizioni Il Fiorino, Modena very difficult. The Vannini Ricci family was anti- seems to have stopped in time with important Venezuela, published in 1966 and reprinted 2009). A teacher and journalist with four degrees fascist and their house was watched and furniture and two grand pianos that dominate many times. and an expert in historic engines (That Diaboli- searched. Cold, hunger, fear, the life of fugitives. the Empire-style salon, Marisa remembers the This piece of work is essential in becoming ac- cal Ferrari, Adolfo Orsi’s , Stanguellini, The country residence of her grandmother, the most beautiful moments in her life as a caraqueña quainted with the presence of Italians and the The Magician of Engines, The Biella Circuit: figure present on the cover of Marisa’s latest de adopción. These are mainly connected to her influence the Italian culture had on Venezuela, Yesterday and Today), Manicardi reconstructs book En la piel de la Guerra, was burnt down by intellectual liveliness, which brought her to write starting from Boccaccio’s Decameron, which Enzo Ferrari’s interrupted dream: to race the an unknown person. In the meantime, the Ricci books, to travel around her country far and wide was the first Italian book to be read on Venezue- Italian 500 cc, Guerzoni Dux, alongside English House with its pine forest was given away to and to participate in congresses all around the lan soil: it arrived at the beginning of the 16th motorcycles, which dominated the marketed nuns and turned into a refuge. Boys and girls world, even today despite being almost eighty Century on illegal boats intended for the soldiers and tracks at the time. The 20th Century was prepared themselves by studying modern lan- years old. Before her translation of Dante’s In- who had decided to spend the rest of their lives born and raised in the pursuit of Engines and guages, besides for Greek and Latin. ferno, Venezuelans only had access to Edoardo dulcemente in the tropics of Cubagua and Mar- Speed – the Futuristic dogma put into practice In Arrivederci a Caracas Vannini gives an ac- Crema’s version. The Nacional of Caracas, a garita. Among the books of the Spanish conquis- by the Paris-Beijing car race, Lindberg’s transat- count of her first fifteen years in Venezuela, a newspaper and also editor, asks Vannini for a tadors one could also find Orland in Love and lantic flight and the inauguration of the Monza fantastic country in which “the girls went out more agile and poetic version with a language The Frenzy of Orlando: chivalry literature more Circuit in the Park of Villa Reale – and so, it is no accompanied by chaperonas (elderly women that speaks out to young people. Marisa thinks popular than the meditational masterpieces like surprise that Ferrari wanted a Motorcycling who accompanied them into society) and used about her students and writes it completely in Dante’s Comedy. Team, the younger sister, however no less impor- to sit by the window to observe the passers-by pencil, in metrics, under the palms of the beach Even though at the beginning of the 20th Cen- tant, alongside the one dedicated to cars. The and be admired by men.” Fascinated by these where she spends her weekends. She carefully tury there were less than 30 thousand Italians in motorcycles, cars, airplanes, horses and men of new customs, the girl from Bologna launches corrects the text, the drafts, the notes but doesn’t Venezuela, some of whom had fought with the 20th Century are the interchangeable ele- herself with enthusiasm into the life of the beau- give any thought to the cover. So, when she first Garibaldi and were present since 1850, our cul- ments of one, inseparable Engine. There are tiful, unimaginable and supreme Caracas of the sees the printed version it almost falls from her ture still left its trace. It is enough to consider the many reasons (a so-called fiery defiant and cau- 50s, speaking Spanish and keeping a fair dis- hands, “They had put a Venezuelan devil, one of number of performances of Italian opera in Ca- tious temper put together) make Ferrari block tance from other Italians so as not to meet the those ugly, dancing folklore devils, on the cover. racas, especially Verdi and Rossini, from 1854 to the Motorcycle department. fascist party officials protected by the dictator- I was very disappointed, but here they like it so 1900 and the success of writers like Carducci, The lack of money to invest in new models. Sav- ship of Pérez Jiménez. But when she arrives, much that in the bookshops people don’t ask for Pascoli, D’Annunzio, Olindo Guerrini, wide- ing and supporting the Regime in times of autar- Romulo Gallegos, a great writer, is in power and El Infierno de Dante, but for El diablo de Dante, spread and translated thanks to the magazine, El chy. Fear of being surpassed by the Guzzi her enthusiasm is such that she learns Antonio and even for El diablo de Marisa Vannini”. Cojo Ilustrado. Let’s not forget the Antonelli House, the growing competition. Increasing the Arraiz’s poem off by heart - Many of her memories are linked to the magical military architects who constructed fortresses in Auto sector and beating the terrible Germans, “He de amarte tan fuerte que no puedo ya más, world of the Indians. For an Italian like herself, the Caribbean in the 16th Century, including the their Mercedes and Auto Union financed by / y el amor que te tenga, Venezuela, / me dis- the forest was a mysterious environment that Castle of Araya, or the cartographer, Agostino Hitler with Nuvolari. The myth of Speed that uelva en ti…” – and passes her days at the Bib- aroused a natural curiosity. She took her chil- Codazzi, who inaugurated a method for becom- opened and maintained the 20th Century gave lioteca Nacional. Marisa and her brother, Carlo, dren there whenever she could. She made ing familiar with and analyzing natural patrimo- the past, present and future a completely differ- attend secondary school and later University: he friends with the indigenous peoples, who she ny, and who fought as a soldier in the name of ent meaning. Ferrari declared: “The future is al- chooses Architecture, whilst she chooses Litera- then hosted at her home when they needed to Simon Bolívar. ways in the hands of those who know how to ture. Marisa graduates in 1956, but because she negotiate with the government for water, elec- To be precise: all the personalities mentioned, anticipate it.” Drake’s maxim does not apply to fears not being able to finish her studies (the tricity or documents. In Venezuela there are 500 except for Rossini and D’Annunzio, were from motorcycles, whose future returns and is blocked Universidad Central de Venezuela closed every thousand Indians who are divided into about Emilia-Romagna. Marisa Vannini is now the in 1934, shortly before the sanctions hit the Re- now and then for political reasons), she also de- thirty ethnic groups. In 1980 Marisa decides to president of the natives of Emilia-Romagna in gime’s economy and against which Enzo Ferrari, cides to sign up at the Pedagogical Institute of collect their legends. Together with Javier Ar- Caracas. She complains about how it’s difficult Italian and perseverant, invented self-sufficient Caracas. This is how she begins her experience mato, an expert in the Yupka Indians, who is to learn Dante’s Italian because the current re- ethanol, in other words ethyl alcohol taken from as a primary and secondary school teacher; then, now a member of parliament and professor of gime of currency control it is difficult for Vene- the beetroots of Emilia-Romagna. ❦ as she is strong in both fields, she continues two indigenous languages in Maracaibo, she takes a zuelans to travel. She would like to continue doctorates, one in Caracas and the other at the recorder and some notebooks and ventures into participating in conferences for researchers, to University of Bologna in Modern Philology in the forest, climbing mountains and fording riv- finish the work she has in progress and to pub- Se e y o u i n Ca r a c a s 1971. She also manages to specialize at the Dams ers and streams. She crosses all of the Sierra di lish her unpublished work. She still has the en- by Claudio Bacilieri in Bologna, run by Umberto Eco. At the Insti- Perijá, on the border with Columbia. The effect ergy of that young girl, who used to devour tute of Italo-Venezuelan Culture she gives life to of this work is the book, El mundo mágico de los books in the mountains of Modena, whilst the fter being welcomed by customs workers Italian and Spanish courses for foreigners, who Yupka, which was however rejected by editors. war raged around her. ❦ Awith some tamarind juice and exchanging begin to arrive in large numbers due to the It took twenty years, in 2001, for the book to see her first words with the natives of La Gauira, the modernization introduced by the use of petro- the light of day, published by Monte Avila, a seventeen-year-old Bolognese girl looked around leum. In consequence, the Faculty of Italian and publishing house. Since then it has been re- To u r i s t s herself. It was hot and full of flowers: she decid- Latin Language and Literature is born. In 1968 printed every year. Other books based on her b y t h e Po ed that she liked Venezuela. It was love at first she is also entrusted with teaching Children’s experience with the indigenous people were by Anna Maria Martina sight, between her and her new country, in the Literature and a Seminar for young writers. In born, such as El chamán de los Cunaguaros distant 1948. Marisa Vannini did not emigrate 1960, Marisa Vannini married a Polish doctor, (2008), which was written to make about eleven erths, cycling tracks, road signs, informa- out of hunger. In other words, hunger was a Eugenio Gerulewicz. When the Russians arrived indigenous ethnic groups known to young peo- Btion centres, gastronomic itineraries, a problem that all Italians faced in the darkest her future husband escaped from his country on ple, La Fogata, a youthful novel about the guide and a portal for the unitary promotion of

50 river tourism by the Po. A lot of work has been and study activities, many different activities with a Kodak. He returned to his homeland at like a wild being from the forest than a person: done to make the main Italian river a tourist have been financed, including the realization of the outbreak of the First World War: he was depending on the season he would sleep in the destination to the likes of the great European berths, the connection of cycling tracks and sent to Piedmont, to Romagnano Sesia, to run stable, in the hayloft, in the chestnut dryer and rivers (the Seine, the Loire, the Rhone, the river signs, the creation of gastronomic itinerar- the unit of precision machining in a bullet fac- became familiar with a bed only when he fell ill Ebro, the Rhine, the Danube and the Thames). ies, the support of enterprises for the requalifi- tory. With the money that he had earned in the and died. However, there is still room for growth: for ex- cation of receptive structures or for the devel- United States he built a house in Nismozza and There are existences that are marked by strange ample, an updated yearbook of river tour opment of tourist services, the first unitary mustered the courage to open a photographic signs, premonitions, coincidences. Carolina, agents does not exist in any of the four regions tourist guide of the entire river channel of the studio next to his clock workshop. Time became daughter of Carlo delle Fratte, was a beautiful crossed by the river. Such an initiative is usually Po in collaboration with Touring Club, promo- the master of his life, closed between photogra- and prosperous girl who left Nismozza in 1915 presented by institutions or privately owned tional activities with exhibitions, performances phy and clocks, between capturing the moment and went to Liguria to be a servant, like many businesses within the limits of their own geo- and vocational training for operators. and minutes passing by. Time, as James Hillman girls of her age. After a couple of years she graphic and administrative borders. Moreover, The final step of the interregional project is the would say, was the vocation, the demon, the moved to Palermo where she went into service information on the river offer is almost always realization of an interregional portal for the uni- “code of the soul” of Amanzio. He named his at the home of a noble family, that of Emanuele “masked” behind nature tourist offers and be- tary promotion of river tourism at the Po, from daughter with the name of an American brand di Belforte. hind the general term “itinerary”. Monviso to its Delta for all four Regions. ❦ of watches, Elgin. Carolina was to take care of the aristocrat, who These are the results of the research of Kpl Thousands of mountaineers passed through his was a widower, and his adolescent son. After (Knowledge Po Leadership), carried out by the studio, thousands of faces stamped on silver years of cleaning, Carolina married the count Study of Giaccardi & Associati within an inter- Th e Sp o o n Ri v e r bromide slates, many of which rest in peace in and became the Countess of Belforte. When she regional project called “Enhancing the Tourist o f Em i l i a the small cemetery between the last houses of happened to return to her village – writes Rosi Value of the Po River” and coordinated by the by Claudio Bacilieri the village and the mountain. Manari – “she glided elegantly through the Tourism Service and Tourist Area Quality of They came for a family picture, everyone dusty streets of Nismozza and looked haughtily the Region. The research analyzed the state of ven Emilia has its own Spoon River, a coun- squeezed around the head of the family; for a at her fellow countrymen of the past. In the vil- the tourist offer in the territories of the Po in Etryside cemetery with grey gravestones host- document photo; to spend their beauty (girls); lage there were some people that remembered order to give institutions and private operators ing far off gazes. The framed photographs in to sanction the unity of marriage (newlyweds). her fashionable shoes, handbag, lace and espe- in Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy, Piedmont and porcelain ovals on those graves no longer take us As a background, Amazio used an improbable cially the fact that she had abandoned her dia- Veneto (the four regions involved in the project) back to unknown existences forever buried un- sea landscape with waves and palm trees, in lect and spoke in a polished Italian. However, further tools in orienting choices and strategies der the dust of time. The granddaughter of the contrast to the normal scenery of forests and when her husband died she was overwhelmed so as to convert the 652km of the Po, from photographer who took those photos has recon- chestnuts. by the serious financial difficulties of the family Monviso to its Delta, into a successful tourist structed the life that beat behind the faces that His photographic archive, now property of his and was forced to abandon Palermo without a destination at an international level. “have the smiles and the melancholy” of the family, depicts a mountain anthropology of great dime. She returned to Nismozza and was ac- “The Po is a potential tourist destination,” em- people of the Reggio Emilia mountains. The interest, so much so that some of his photos commodated in some rooms in a farmhouse at phasizes the regional councilor to Tourism, pivot of all the stories that Rosa Maria Manaria were published in important photographic the end of the village. Her tombstone in the Giudo Pasi. “We are trying to change it from presents in her book, They have the smiles and magazines, such as Time and Life, and also in an cemetery is modest but at least carries the title of potential to real, at the same time preserving the the melancholy” (Aliberti, 2008) is the story of exhibition in Beaubourg, in Paris. Thousands of Countess. naturalness of the river and its context and car- her grandfather, Amanzio Fiorini, the photogra- glass negatives tell stories of hope, famine, pain- The scandal of world’s pain is redeemed by the rying out the necessary actions. It is important pher-clock smith of Nismozza. This village’s ful events (the chilling picture of partisans killed peace of a small cemetery, by the serenity that to build a feasible, coordinated and intelligent small cemetery in the Reggio Emilia Apennine by the Nazis in the winter of ’44) and also the you can breathe there. Even the story of Argen- tourist offer together with the territory and en- in the high valley of , lies on a hill over- happy occurrences in the community, the every- tina Fiorini, Amanzio’s sister, seems ironic today. terprises.” hung by the peak of Mt. Ventasso, also called day life of the Secchia valley, the work in the Argentina was a communist, so convinced that From an analysis carried out among 50 opera- poetically in tel Fade, “the place where there are fields, the Autumns and the Springs, the clear she always wore a pair of red knee-length socks. tors, administrations and companies in the area fairies”: here almost all the dead rest with the skies of the Apennine, the wind blowing through After visiting the market of Nismozza, people of the four regions of the Po, we can see that expressions captured by Amanzio’s objective. the branches, the scent of the elderly – “a scent said that they had seen “that woman with the 80% of tourist flow in the territory of the river Like many mountain villages, Nismozza has of stove smoke, of rabbit hutches, of pipe to- red socks”. She also went to Genoa to work as a is due to excursions, in other words visits with- been affected by emigration. In order to escape bacco, of hay and of fat,” reminisces Rosi Man- servant and returned with a daughter, Emilia, out overnight stays. 67% of the people ques- a destiny of poverty, at the age of sixteen, in ari. These photographs bring to life a world long who was not acknowledged by her father. When tioned think that the tourist offer is mainly 1900, Amanzio Fiorini left for Genoa, where he passed. Melancholy is present in the title of the she grew up, Emilia emigrated to Argentina linked to the territory and not the river, while learnt the trade of clock smith. When he re- book and is shown in the memory of these exist- with her husband and two children. Her mother almost everyone believes that river tourism is a turned to Nismozza he understood that fixing ences. For the author, remembering, as it was for followed her many years later and destiny had it product capable of attracting mainly families alarm clocks would not guarantee him a future Leopardi, is perhaps the best way to contem- that Argentina died in Argentina hit by a bus. and groups (contrary to research carried out on due to the little money that circulated in the plate your own nothing. However, it is a nothing Some decades later, in the mid 60s, Emilia’s first the same issue which reveals that river tourism village. So, in 1908, after getting married he filled with voices, plots, sounds, songs and col- son appeared in Nismozza one summer’s day. is individual tourism in 90% of cases). Finally, chose the road to America, destination Chicago. ours that the heavy iron gate of the small ceme- His relatives welcomed him warmly, but re- 97% of operators, administrations and compa- The emigrants from the Reggio Emilia moun- tery shelters from those who are in too much of mained dumbstruck when the boy, in speaking nies in the area agree on the promotion of the tains dug your sewers, living – as they used to say a hurry and neither have the time and nor wish of his mother and his life in Argentina, praised Po as a unitary tourist product and on the reali- – “from star to star” because they went under to look back. the military junta in power at the time and de- zation of a common internet portal for all four when it was still dark and came up after dusk. Between substance and death – said Kleist – fended dictatorship. He left the same night regions. 70% of the 47 foreign operators ques- Sesto Fiorini is buried in Chicago. nothing happens except for a nothing to fill with without the regret of any of his relatives. It was tioned do not treat the Po River as a tourist He had brought with him a photograph as big poetry. It is the poetry of the humble that rises Emilia’s younger son who compensated this product and are not connected with its tourist as a wall of Ventasso taken by his brother, from the small tombs of earth covered with disappointment and put things back into place and territorial system. Amanzio and in his pocket he kept a chestnut white gravel, where the mountaineers of the past – he too appeared suddenly in Nismozza on a This research is part of the interregional project husk from his mountains. Other fellow country- rest. For example, don Spero, who had been summer’s day. He talked badly of the soldiers in called “Enhancing the Tourist Value of the Po men set out to the English mines, whilst the imprudent enough to hide partisans in the power in Argentina, making his relatives so River”, which is promoted by the four regions women became wet-nurses in the city or worked presbytery, and who someone, perhaps a Ger- happy that they exclaimed: “He has the same that are crossed by the Po and includes a total for rich families. In Chicago Amanzio Fiorini man, hit with a hand bomb while he was slowly blood as Emilia and Argentina”. investment of €8 million. Since 2005 as part of found work in a clock factory. In his free time he strolling and reading the book of hours. Or Now it is the wind that presides over the memo- the interregional project, besides for research read books on Physics and took photographs Tugnin, who in Amanzio’s photo looks more ries of the old cemetery of Nismozza. ❦

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