Il 26 giugno, con inizio dalle 19.30, presso l’agriturismo “Perillo” di Altavilla, località S.Martino, si terrà una presentazione dal vivo del libro di Oreste .
asia: where people lived in caves. and they had no god. anthony: after centuries of neglect, matera s cave communities became, for post-war italy, a symbol of national dysfunction, backwardness, and horrifying living conditions. anthony: i mean, this is an area that was known for briganti. outlaws, bandits. so this was always where, you know, the losers were sent. into the 50s and 60s this was considered an embarrassment and a shame, people lived asia: yeah, because they had no water, yes. anthony: ten kids in a bucket. up to 50% mortality rate among children. anthony: malaria was endemic, the children begging in the street for quinine to prevent it. asia: they were burning fire to keep the animals away as the children were dying. anthony: in the 1950s, the population was forcibly relocated, leaving matera s cave structures abandoned.
and then they became briganti, so they were one step ahead of the law, and then they settled down and became laborers, in olive fields. and that s really the origins of the coppola family. because the south was so oppressed by the north, it stayed the same. they haven t had a thousand years of cheap, gyp the tourists. and you come and you can walk out on the street in a real italian town where the people don t know anything about, they ll invite you to their house for dinner here, quite innocently. how long that will last, i don t know. what we re looking at here is a food i thought you d get a kick out of, lampascioni, or my family calls it lampascun. it s the bulb of a flower, hyacinth. anthony: wow. mr. coppola: you score it then you put it in the deep fryer then it turns into a flower. anthony: beautiful! oh wow. this is incredible. so, you may have some history with this house, i mean, was it
asia: it doesn t look shameful to me. anthony: well, back in the day, this was where asia: where people lived in caves. and they had no god. anthony: after centuries of neglect, matera s cave communities became, for post-war italy, a symbol of national dysfunction, backwardness, and horrifying living conditions. anthony: i mean, this is an area that was known for briganti. outlaws, bandits. so this was always where, you know, the losers were sent. into the 50s and 60s this was considered an embarrassment and a shame, people lived asia: yeah, because they had no water, yes. anthony: ten kids in a bucket. up to 50% mortality rate among children. anthony: malaria was endemic, the children begging in the street for quinine to prevent it. asia: they were burning fire to keep the animals away as the children were dying.
and they had no god. anthony: after centuries of neglect, matera s cave communities became, for post-war italy, a symbol of national dysfunction, backwardness, and horrifying living conditions. anthony: i mean, this is an area that was known for briganti. outlaws, bandits. so this was always where, you know, the losers were sent. into the 50s and 60s this was considered an embarrassment and a shame, people lived asia: yeah, because they had no water, yes. anthony: ten kids in a bucket. up to 50% mortality rate among children. anthony: malaria was endemic, the children begging in the street for quinine to prevent it. asia: they were burning fire to keep the animals away as the children were dying. anthony: in the 1950s, the population was forcibly relocated, leaving matera s cave structures abandoned.