VIRGILIO JUAN
CASTIGLIONE
GARE DI SCI A CAPRACOTTA
Istituto Nazionae Luce (1929)
"Gare di sci a Capracotta"
GARE DI SCI A CAPRACOTTA
Istituto Nazionae Luce (1929)
"Gare di sci a Capracotta"
IL RATTO DI BECKENBAUER
Flop TV (2009)
"La villa di lato"
di Maccio Capatonda (1978)
IL RATTO DI BECKENBAUER
Flop TV (2009)
"La villa di lato"
di Maccio Capatonda (1978)
IL RATTO DI BECKENBAUER
Flop TV (2009)
"La villa di lato"
di Maccio Capatonda (1978)
IL RATTO DI BECKENBAUER
Flop TV (2009)
"La villa di lato"
di Maccio Capatonda (1978)
VIRGILIO JUAN
CASTIGLIONE
Le arie popolari musicate da artisti capracottesi
NUNZIO
BACCARI
(1666-1738)
ALFONSO
FALCONI
ALFONSO
FALCONI
ALFONSO
FALCONI
NUNZIO
BACCARI
(1666-1738)

IN THE DEATH OF ONE
di William Grosvenor Congdon (1912-1998)
Capracotta was a skiing resort, once;
cold grey and clear blue mountains,
snow across the Sangro
and from over there -
beginning in those villages on the other mountains
and extending along all the peaks that we could see,
and then on, for interminable miles into the heart of Europe
were Germans, Festung Europa.
Over there lay the dark continent,
solution forced by slavery
waiting like Michaelangelo's Adam
for the gap of lifelessness to be closed.
The idea alone sustained them
and it would have to continue to:
for here in Capracotta, where liberation was,
among the rubble gather like a sack of sticks a man,
stretched, seamed, unproportionate man,
flesh that must have lived too long,
not so much flesh as a memory.
Putrescent, persistence of matter
can absorb the wounds but never heal.
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W. G. Congdon, In the Death of One, in «Italian Poetry Review», VI:2011, Ed. Fiorentina, Firenze 2013, p. 220.