Iovino, Serenella. "Three Earthquakes: Wounds, Signs, And
Iovino, Serenella. "Three Earthquakes: Wounds, Signs, and Resisting Arts in Belice, Irpinia, and L’Aquila." Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. 83–124. Environmental Cultures. Bloomsbury Collections. Web. 30 Sep. 2021. <http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474219488.ch-003>. Downloaded from Bloomsbury Collections, www.bloomsburycollections.com, 30 September 2021, 22:40 UTC. Copyright © Serenella Iovino 2016. You may share this work for non-commercial purposes only, provided you give attribution to the copyright holder and the publisher, and provide a link to the Creative Commons licence. 3 Three Earthquakes Wounds, Signs, and Resisting Arts in Belice, Irpinia, and L’Aquila Shimmering stars of the Bear, I never thought That I’d be back again to see you shine … (Leopardi 2010 [1829]: 179) It might have been the sight of the stars, blended with the memory of Giacomo Leopardi’s verses, that kept Benedetto Croce awake that summer night of 1883. Buried by rubble up to his neck, the seventeen-year-old boy observed the clear sky above him. A few meters from the point where he was trapped, his mother, father, and a younger sister were dying under the ruins of their holiday house in Casamicciola, a small village on the island of Ischia. Decades later, recollecting those dreadful moments with perceptible emotion, he wrote: I remained for many hours buried under the rubble, broken in many parts of my body. I regained my senses late that night, and I found myself interred up to my neck, and above my head stars were shining […].
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