Saturday, August 13 , 2022, in Gallium, an interesting literary meeting with two authors awaits you:

• Loris Giuriatti presents his book "Lo chiamavano Alpe Madre" (Ed. Rizzoli).
• Paolo Malaguti presents his book "Il Moro della cima" (Ed. Einaudi).

The appointment, which is part of the cultural review "Aperitif with the Author", organized by the Giunti Library of Asiago, is at 17:30 in Piazza Italia or, in case of bad weather, at the Palasport Auditorium.

Free participation.

THE BOOK: LO CHIAMAVANO ALPE MADRE (ed. Rizzoli)

Loris Giuriatti returns to tell the mountain and the Great War through an exceptional story of courage, tenacity, friendship and passion. After the first encounter with Monte Grappa, when he was a boy, Angelo was struck by the wonder of the landscape and the many secrets kept among the peaks. Now that he has grown up, the refuge of that first summer has become his home and that of his wife Carlotta. It is late autumn and the season of tourists is now behind them when a visitor dressed in sweatshirt, bermuda shorts and sandals comes to them: the least suitable clothing to climb up there. His name is Joshua, he studies History and arrived from Austria to try to solve the mystery of three objects kept in a safe: a document with the Habsburg seal, the photo of the Madonnina del Grappa and a watercolor with a strange phrase pinned. For Angelo it is impossible not to get involved. The discovery that other similar paintings are scattered around the mountain huts begins a door-to-door search, refuge by refuge. Among legendary hosts, malgari, "recuperanti" and dodgy characters who have lost respect for themselves and for the community of which they are part, he and Joshua will end up exhuming a story of more than a hundred years before, which took place between Vienna and Grappa. A story closely linked with a contrasted love and a mystery that dates back to the First World War.

Loris Giuriatti

He lives in Bassano del Grappa, where he works as a teacher and manager of a vocational training center. In his spare time he promotes Mount Grappa by accompanying visitors on routes dedicated to the Great War. For Rizzoli he published L'Angelo del Grappa (2020).

THE BOOK: IL MORO DELLA CIMA (Ed. Einaudi)

They say that to live happily you have to find your place in the world: many of us spend our lives looking for it, for others it is a matter of a moment. Agostino Faccin, whom everyone calls "the Moor", discovers happiness as a boy, in the mountains of his home, at the exact moment when he understands that the higher the altitude, the more the world resembles him. When they propose to him to become the guardian of the new refuge on Mount Grappa, he does not think twice. But history has no intention of leaving it alone, the Great War is upon us, and that summit isolated from the world will become the front line. Paolo Malaguti returns to tell the Story of the First World War through the eyes of a legendary character who, incredible to say, really existed.

Since he was little more than a child, the Moro has only one certainty: the only place where he feels sheltered from the world is among the larch woods, the high altitude meadows, and some rare mountaineers ... So, when they give him a shelter, it seems that his life finally takes the right shape. Soon in the plains spreads the fame of that man with a dark mustache and sunburned skin, with his imaginative stories and abundant portions of chicken with lard. And many climb up to have him as a guide, he who knows like no other that steep slope of sharp white stones. But that refuge is on the top of Mount Grappa, and the Great War is upon us. Up there pulls a threatening air: around the shelter the movement is frenetic, military roads and fortifications are built, the lookouts, the generals, the soldiers arrive en masse. And the Moro, who felt safe in the mountains, witnesses the History that parades before his eyes: in 1918 the Grappa is the front line, a battlefield that will soon turn into an open-air cemetery and finally into a high-altitude shrine. But when the guns no longer smoke and the fanfares stop playing, he, the Moor, will return to his top, and in front of the scarring of men he will look for his very personal way of honoring the sacredness of the mountain. Paolo Malaguti gives us another great story from a past that no longer exists, giving voice and body to a lost world, and bringing us up there to breathe a little freedom. "Especially at dawn, when the light is softer and the plain is wider, and with your gaze you reach the curve of the distant sea: then it is smooth to believe that life can really be all like that, sunny days and green pastures".

Paolo Malaguti

Paolo Malaguti was born in Monselice (Padua) in 1978. He currently lives in Asolo and works as a teacher of Literature in Bassano del Grappa. With Neri Pozza he published La reliquia di Costantinopoli (2015), finalist at the Premio Strega 2016. Among his works Nuovo sillabario veneto (BEAT, 2016), Prima dell'alba (Neri Pozza, 2017) and L' ultimo carnevale (Solferino, 2019).

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