«Le persone e le cose»: memorie da riconquistare

The silence about something might be a consequence of the will not to take on, or the definite sign of concentration, of deep acceptance (M. Bachtin, The aesthetics of verbal art, 1979). The awareness of such an immovable ambiguity is at the origin of this work which presents, through a variety of genres, a tale of research, re-discovery, public reflections and private conversations offered by Cosimo Pagliara in the long time he dedicated to the territory of the Leuca Cape. From the first research in the necropolis at Vereto, to the excavation campaigns of the sanctuary of Porcinara Cave, to the transcript of the words of 'Two Night for Vereto', the perspective is constant, with the look toward the past and the focus on the human things. To take again possess of these stories, and to disseminate them is, in our opinion, a significant cultural project to share community memories and values, in continuity with the work of those who, before us, and probably in a better way, acted to tell «the people and the things».