Davide Desario presents the re-edition of the book ‘Storie bastarde’

Many VIPs this evening at the Palazzo dell’Informazione in Trastevere, for the presentation of the re-edition of ‘Storie Bastarde’ (Avagliano Editore), the book by the director of Adnkronos, Davide Desarioreleased in bookstores these days in a new guise with a preface by the presenter Francesca Fagnani. Massive participation in the event, moderated by Giovanni Floris, with the presence of many personalities from the political, journalistic, entrepreneurial and entertainment worlds, as well as public security leaders (PHOTO). To do the honors of the house, the editor of Adnkronos, Pippo Marra, and the CEO of the news agency, Angela Antonini. The prefect of Rome, Lamberto Giannini, the journalist and presenter, Eleonora Daniele and the publisher Andrea Lombardi spoke with the author, while the Tg5 journalist Costanza Calabresi and the journalist and producer Malcom Pagani read some passages from the book, offering the public a taste of the intense and touching atmospheres that characterize it.

Desario presents ‘Bastard Stories’: ”I tell the story of normal people, the heroes of everyday life”

The guests present

Among the numerous guests who attended: the undersecretary of Justice, Andrea Del Mastro, the undersecretary of the Ministry of Labour, Claudio Durigon, the undersecretary of the Presidency of the Council with responsibility for information and publishing, Alberto Barachini, the president of the Culture commission of Chamber, Federico Mollicone, Senator Filippo Sensi, the councilor for major events of the Municipality of Rome, Alessandro Onorato, the prefect Giuseppe Pecoraro, the councilor for culture at the Municipality of Rome, Massimiliano Smeriglio and the councilor for the Casa di Roma Capitale, Tobia Zevi, the president of the Eur, Enrico Gasbarra, the chief rabbi of the Jewish community of Rome, Riccardo Di Segni, and the general director of Federculture, Umberto Croppi. Also present were the general commander of the Carabinieri, Salvatore Luongo, and the leaders of the Capitoline security: the police commissioner Roberto Massucci and the provincial commander of the Carabinieri, Marco Pecci. Also in the audience were the Rai board member Federica Frangi, the director of Rai insights, Paolo Corsini, the director of Gr1, Francesco Pionati, the editorial director of ‘Messaggero’, Massimo Martinelli, the presenter Serena Bortone, the actor and presenter Beppe Convertini, the host Andrea Perroni and the cartoonist Federico Palmaroli, aka Osho. There was a large representation of the Capitoline musical world with the singer-songwriters Mattia Briga (accompanied by his wife, the actress Arianna Montefiori), Marco Conidi, Paolo Belli, Federico Zampaglione and the rapper Piotta. The latter two gave a highly applauded live moment, singing the song ‘Serpico’ together. Also photographing the event were the king of the paparazzi, Rino Barillari, and the doyen of Roman photographers, Umberto Pizzi.

The plot of the book

‘Storie Bastarde’ tells the life of a group of boys in the Roman suburbsbetween the difficulties and hopes of a youth looking for a future. A book that, through the rough and melancholic language of the street, offers a glimpse of a past, but still current Italy, helping us to understand the present. The opera was recently staged in Rome with the theater show of the same name starring Fabio Avaro and directed by Ariele Vincenti.

“I talk about normal people, the heroes of everyday life”

“True stories from the suburbs of Rome in the 70s and 80s, romantic, raw, difficult, funny stories, seen from the eyes of a child”, says Davide Desario, describing his book. “On TV we always see the great policeman or the great criminal in the foreground while Italy, us, the normal people, are blurred in the background. Instead I wanted to invert the focus and I wanted to talk about what happens to people simple with their problems, the true heroes of everyday life, leaving in the background what was happening in Italy, from the Moro kidnapping to the Pasolini murder up to the death of little Alfredino Rampi”.

Desario thanked the editor of Adnkronos Pippo Marra and the CEO Angela Antonini ”because this is their home and for having called me to work here”. ”One of the most beautiful things about the first times I met Marra was a story of his – he explained – he told me that at least once a year he always returns to Calabria, to his country, because he needs to remember where he came from. he left. I’ve always had this thing inside me and this book is a bit like that, a desire to go back to remembering where we started from. By reviewing and remembering all the things we left behind, all the things we did, perhaps the future will make us a little less afraid.”

During the presentation, during which two of the twenty-seven stories contained in the book were read by Tg5 journalist Costanza Calabrese and Malcom Pagani, there was also a jam session by Piotta and Federico Zampaglione. Moderator of the event was Giovanni Floris who, describing Storie Bastarde, said: ”This book gives an identity to a generation that has been little talked about and that was formed in the ’80s, to those born in the late ’60s and at the beginning of the 70s, and has a trait of normality in living abnormal situations, of lightness in living painful and profound situations, and a trait, which has not been recognized until now, on a level, I mean literary but I wouldn’t want to exaggerate”.