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The alleged "bribes" in Casamicciola

I must say, without embarrassment, not being an avid reader of newspapers. I think the trees should be better protected from the indiscriminate use made of it in the name of a misguided democratic demand. Then, since I too have succumbed to the web - they can not do otherwise now because the new illiterate are those who now refuse to electronic information, for snobbery, believing it to be more engaged - directly on the sites I read the news more interesting (in the screen, by the way, you can read a short text, an article or a short essay and a book, you can write a book and read it on the computer! the paper book will never go away), at least for me. I remember an interview with Dacia Maraini immense and sardonic Giorgio De Chirico (in And who were you? Bompiani, 1973):

"Law of the press? That newspapers? "

" "Time" and "The Messenger" "

" Both? "

" No, one or the other. If "Time" is about me, read "Time", if "The Messenger" to talk about me, I read "The Messenger" "

" You have a compelling way to make fun of himself and, through it, the whole world. "

Exceptionally I bought Courier South , see an article by Marta Herling, nephew of Benedetto Croce and general secretary of the Italian Institute for Historical Studies. He laments the untruths spoken by Roberto Saviano about the Casamicciola earthquake in 1883. It is completely untrue that his dying father of the Neapolitan philosopher, in the rubble along with Cross, meanwhile, urged him to give a bribe of one hundred thousand liras of anyone who devote themselves to free him. In moments such extreme ways unimaginable by anyone in normal life, you can say everything and its opposite, yes, but why Saviano should be so unwise to associate its readers the term "bribes" to the customs of life in danger of death and beyond the idealist philosopher? A sum of one hundred thousand pounds was unthinkable at the time, the same family of the Cross did not have much money. Probably the poet Saviano, who now can afford, and why not, to falsify history, as sharply as Herling reveals that the culture industry is able to rewrite the second wave of success that reverberates capriciously, that is without scientific basis, including at the present time, must have overheard the news about the Cross by a witness, second-hand bargain, of a certain unidentified German tourist. The latter, in those days of 1883, being on holiday in Casamicciola, said he had heard, in turn, by some unidentified, Benedetto Croce that he spent himself in his attempt to save his mercenary life, by the method of these popular " bribes. "

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