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GRANDPA'S COAT | Francesco Sisinni

"The Grandfather's Coat"

by Francesco Sisinni

Rubbettino Editor
Iride Series
2007, Pages 202

GRANDFATHER MARATEA'S WINTER COAT

The stories of the elders

The grandfather's coat is the old overcoat that hides a secret that Grandfather Francesco didn't have time to reveal to his grandson, who bears his name.

It is a manuscript that the young Francesco discovers and which tells the intense life of his ancestor, Giuseppe, who lived between the 1700s and 1800s, between the convent and the lecture hall, consecration to God and love for wonderful beings, such as his son and the woman who made him a father, between Italy and Argentina.

A story intertwined with political events that have transformed Europe and that unfolds, through the revelation of a dream, across epochal events such as Greek colonization and the Byzantine Empire, the Pauline Mission and the exploits of Charles V.

A story, as has been said, too beautiful to be true, too true to be a novel.

the AUTHOR

FRANCESCO SISINNI MARATEA

Francesco Sisinni, University Professor, Director of the Master's in Historical-Artistic Studies at LUMSA University in Rome, former General Director of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities. Central Councilor of the Dante Alighieri Society, author of numerous Dantian lectures; among the various positions held, also that of Mayor of Maratea.

by the same author:

At the Olympics festival
Edumond Le Monnier, 2001

On pilgrimage. Pilgrimages and jubilees of the people of God
New City, 1998

Science and the museum crisis. The paradigm of the British Museum and the case of Italy
coauthors: Wilson David M., Abruzzese Alberto
Liguori, 1993

The Lucania and its cultural heritage
coauthor: Giuseppe Appella
Leonardo Arte, 1991

My possessions. Interview with Francesco Sisinni
Palombi, 1990

Cultural Heritage for the Future of Naples
Electa Mondadori

He has also published:

Lucanian dithyramb: Orazian praise of Vulture, of symposium, of wine and of Lucania (2008)

The Italian Landscape in the Divine Comedy (2011)

Scattered Rhymes (2014)

The Port (2015)

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