2021-11-09 12:34:04
Vesuvius from the city of Giugliano, a municipality north-west of Naples, with Giambattista Basile’s eyes in the foreground, a work by the street artist @jorit realized on the roof of the local subway station.
Giambattista Basile, whose name will go down in the history of world literature, was living in Giugliano when on December 16, 1631, Vesuvius awoke after five centuries of rest with a terrible explosive eruption, the most violent recorded in historical times after that of 79 AD. The fertile soils of those places turned into a grey desert of ash and stone. Ten weeks after the eruption of Vesuvius, on February 23, 1632, Basile died like many people around there, of a sudden epidemic respiratory disease, perhaps a consequence of the pollution of the lungs with the fine dust of the eruption. After his death a manuscript in Neapolitan was found in a closet, which bore the title "Lo cunto de li cunti ovvero lo trattenimento de peccerille": the oldest book of fairy tales in Europe. The fairy tales collected show how much the events of Vesuvius occupied Basile's mind. In 2015, director Matteo Garrone proposed a film adaptation entitled "The Tale of Tales" winning seven David di Donatello awards.
(source: Vesuvius, Dieter Richter)
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