Songs That Relate To The Crucible

Pentedattilo

motionless on a sandstone spur, Pentedattilo he stands before the sun-parched valleys of the rivers of Anne and of St. Elias. It can be reached by crossing the sea, in uniform and shapeless ugliness us assembled on the southernmost of the Ionian coast. Countries, paesucoli and towns that seem to conform to a single aesthetic and urban policy: employment.
Depopulation led the village out of time to hand it to the limbo of history geological erosion. The stasis in which Pentedattilo is dormant is combined with the ecstasy of the visitor, who was kidnapped by the virulence aesthetics of hand made red rocks of the cliff of Mount Calvary.

Bloodshed nell'eccidio of Alberti is the basis for mythical-legendary founding of abandoning the country on Easter night of April 16, 1686 the Baron de Montebello murdered and did slay the Marquis and Lorenzo Alberti his family, lords of the manor of Pentedattilo. Reasons for triggering the killings were the jealousy and the desire for revenge for the affront represented by the engagement of Antonia, sister of the Marquis Alberti, of which the Baron of Montebello was very much in love with Don Petrillo, son of the First Counsellor the Viceroy of Naples.


But it tells a story far more prosaic rather than from the end of the seventeenth century the dynasty of the Alberti, owner of the estate of Pentedattilo, facilitate movement of farmers into the flat area near the coast to expand the extent of cultivated land and increase the income of the estate. The pressures of economic policy were added to the ruinous consequences of a long series of natural disasters: the earthquake of 1783, then in 1908, the flood of 1951 resulted in the great exodus of the fifties and the declaration of the 1968 uninhabitable. And while
Pentedattilo died, Melito Porto Salvo, with its flourishing production of bergamot, stood.

Pentedattilo today "is a deceased person who disturbs the living," as he writes Vito Teti The sense of place, as evidence of the futility of living places. The pervasive nature
where it is located seems to want to suck the walls of the town. Still in her unflinching survival Pentedattilo was eventually transformed from a village inspired by men in an element of nature nestled in the foothills of the Aspromonte. This transition is marked involution of the sun that beats Pentedattilo stronger than in other places Calabrian.
In a counterpoint to the drama of abandonment is the aesthetic harmony of a village perfectly integrated into its landscape.