The stifling heat in any night of July (2010) I incentive to leave the house. I walk by Rivoli, Piedimonte's main street, a small fraction of the town of Sessa Aurunca. Near the square dedicated to Nicola Borrelli (man of culture who lived in these places in the first decades of the twentieth century) almost by accident I run in the person of Don Ernesto Albanian. Physical dry eye appealing, walk soft, for he seems never to pass the time. Perhaps unconsciously (and who can tell), I tried just the church that night. The rest were years that I wanted to explore certain events occurring in the territory Aurunca. And who better than Don Ernesto, a living historical memory, can tell with the many local events spigliatezza intellectual successive over the centuries? "The memory decreases if not exercised" (Cicero). Appointed parish priest of St Erasmus in Piedimonte in 1980, Don Ernesto has played several positions during his long career priestly clerical, not least that of chancellor, archivist, historian. Immediately after the meeting we start in his stock-study of the village, we begin to talk. And 'love for the past that we share a lot, for the rest, perhaps, we are different, in fact, nearly half a century of life lived between us. We enter the heart of the story, a river of news (that would otherwise never have recovered) escapes from his words. He shows me an amazing bull, dated 1032 to Atenulfo Archbishop of Capua, in which there were written and asked diocesan boundaries, and the letter of indulgence from Pope Pius IX sent to piedimontesi; ancient ecclesiastical writings. Above all sports, with a hint of pride, his latest literary effort, "Sessa Aurunca village of Piedimonte. Taking a cue from what is mentioned in his text, he speaks to me of the mysterious Vesco, ancient, glorious, legendary city destroyed by the Romans in 314 BC which would place the sources to the steep hills of Monte Massico decanted. Dating back over two thousand years ago, was part of Vescia Pentapoli Aurunca, a federation of five cities including Ausonia, Minturnae Sinuessa and Suess. The set of pages and its suburbs have over time developed the present town of Piedimonte, a place that, to hear the pastor, said it would be valuable in historical writings. The Roman historian Livy, in his famous work "The History of Rome," informs us that the ancient people had to bear the brunt of Aurunci higher against the Roman war machine, defeated, however, fled to the mountain which gives its name Massico the country. In the book reads: "Our lands are filled with abundant fruit, Massico mood of Bacchus (the wine), oil and cattle are happy." (From Virgil's Georgics). A dense Mediterranean scrub made of myrtle, privet, mastic, strawberry, etc.., teeming with animals between where, wild boar, badgers, martens, hedgehogs, shrews common moles, dormice, dormice, but above ground is undisputed wine Falerno. The Roman poet Martial called him immortal: "trained, quid cessas, puer, immortal Falernum? (Versa yet, why suspend, or child, to pour the deathless Falerno?). Concludes the trilogy literary history on the site, the book on the history of Piedimonte and the book on the martyrdom of St Erasmus. The eighteenth-century church is located at the center of town, was built in 1607 following the abandonment of what is now in ruins near the ward heaven. It is said that Sant'Erasmo sent down from heaven the fog, the Saracen invaders who did not see anything in front of you, and even the possible loot from the country, frightened by the supernatural event never seen before, they started fleeing. Inside, the church has a Romanesque arch that divides the nave from the chancel. Among the most important objects, the statue of St. Erasmus by the Neapolitan sculptor Jacopo Colombo, the organ dated 1829, the headless statue of an ancient Roman, the bell tower and clock. Among the paintings stands a faithful copy of the Martyrdom of Saint Erasmus of the famous French painter Nicolas Poussin, which is located behind the main altar. Well after a few hours spent with the desire to don Ernesto Read more rampant. The hope, however, is that young people can become passionate about the future in their home country, discover its traditions, its history, its most illustrious citizen, Don Ernesto, a tireless popularizer of this ancient tale of the foothills.
Bibliography: Don Ernesto
the Albanian village of Piedimonte Sessa Aurunca, Graphic Arts, 1994
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