From tomorrow the ‘Via dei Librai’, a tribute to Dalla Chiesa

Back on the road, albeit with the anti-Covid rules and the limitations of the yellow zone. Palermo’s ‘Via dei Librai’ does not stop, it returns to the Cassaro and widens towards Palazzo dei Normanni invading Villa Bonanno. But not only that: there will also be an elevated island at the Terrazze del Sole, dedicated to Adriano Olivetti. The sixth road edition of the Via dei Librai begins tomorrow. After the second experience on the web last spring, the event returns to its place of the heart, via Vittorio Emanuele. But this year a new location is added to the Cassaro which extends the events area up to Villa Bonanno which will host the “Danilo Dolci” Island. And it is precisely at Villa Bonanno that the main event of the first day is scheduled, the memory of the prefect Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa who was killed in via Isidoro Carini on September 3, 1982 at the height of an escalation of mafia violence that began on May 1. that same year with the murderer of the regional secretary of the PCI Pio La Torre. The Church, who was killed together with his wife Emanuela Setti Carraro and escort agent Domenico Russo, will be remembered at 9 pm, the time when the massacre took place, in the meeting moderated by Elvira Terranova, journalist AdnKronos, with the mayor Leoluca Orlando , the president of the court of Palermo Antonio Balsamo and the envoy of the Republic Salvo Palazzolo. On the eve of the event, the mayor wanted to underline how the Via dei Libra has now entered the economic and cultural fabric of Palermo: “The Via dei Librai confirms itself as an institutionalized moment in the city’s cultural and economic growth path. The commitment of the organizers, together with the institutions, the operators of the book and reading supply chain present in the city and the municipal administration, has led to making an idea of ​​territorial promotion through culture a reality that effectively contributes to the attractiveness tourism and the economic cycle of the city “: said Leoluca Orlando who then insisted on the meaning of the theme chosen for this edition:” This year the theme of the exhibition recalls the importance of the city as a community, whose principles characterize the of Palermo, an open, inclusive, welcoming city. ”In three days 52 events, 44 publishing houses present In these three days 52 events will take place and on the Cassaro there will be the stands of 44 publishing houses. Giovanna Analdi, president of the Cassaro Alto association, which is the heart of the event, comments: “We really hope that the return on the road of the publishers and book presentations, alongside the Cassaro commercial activities, in careful observance of the anti-contagion precautions , can contribute to giving support to the entire community in this period of great economic and social difficulty. “From the web to the street, the commitment remains to broaden the audience of readers and to develop the pleasure of literary encounters even in this difficult period . This is what the scientific committee of the event underlines: “The large and increasingly qualified participation of authors, editors and guests, both in the web phase in April and on the road, and the interest in the theme of La città comunità we proposed to the attention and reflection of the participants and the public, testifying, again this year, how La Via dei Librai is the product of the concrete commitment of many in the sense of the cultural, social and economic promotion of our city “- they say Francesco Lombardo, Giulio Pirrotta and Giuseppe Scuderi who conclude: “Even in these years of the persistence of the health and social emergency of the pandemic is confirmed as the formula of the book fair on the road together with the path of exploration of the present and of our identity through the book and reading, arouse interest and participation “.