{"id":17507,"date":"2021-11-21T15:50:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T17:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shop.movery.it\/disgrazia-san-gennaro\/"},"modified":"2023-03-01T16:54:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T15:54:22","slug":"disgrazia-san-gennaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/disgrazia-san-gennaro\/","title":{"rendered":"The misfortune of San Gennaro as told by Gennaro di Biase"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_68_1 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1' ><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/disgrazia-san-gennaro\/#Porta_anche_il_nome_del_patrono_della_citta_quanto_la_sua_storia_di_scrittore_e_legata_alla_cultura_napoletana\" title=\"You are also named after the city&#039;s patron saint, how much is your history as a writer linked to Neapolitan culture?\">You are also named after the city's patron saint, how much is your history as a writer linked to Neapolitan culture?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/disgrazia-san-gennaro\/#Qual_e_il_suo_rapporto_con_i_termini_%E2%80%9Cdisgrazia%E2%80%9D_e_%E2%80%9Cscaramanzia%E2%80%9D\" title=\"What is your relationship with the terms &quot;misfortune&quot; and &quot;superstition&quot;?\">What is your relationship with the terms \"misfortune\" and \"superstition\"?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/disgrazia-san-gennaro\/#Il_romanzo_da_loccasione_di_ripercorrere_diversi_luoghi_come_Duomo_piazza_Mercato_Monteoliveto_Quale_di_questi_luoghi_partecipa_secondo_lei_maggiormente_al_racconto\" title=\"The novel gives the opportunity to retrace different places such as Duomo, Piazza Mercato, Monteoliveto. Which of these places do you think participates most in the story?\">The novel gives the opportunity to retrace different places such as Duomo, Piazza Mercato, Monteoliveto. Which of these places do you think participates most in the story?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/disgrazia-san-gennaro\/#Qual_e_il_posto_della_citta_a_cui_e_piu_legato\" title=\"What is the place in the city to which you are most attached?\">What is the place in the city to which you are most attached?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/disgrazia-san-gennaro\/#Le_tappe_principali_del_percorso_il_Duomo_di_Napoli\" title=\"Highlights of the route: the Cathedral of Naples\">Highlights of the route: the Cathedral of Naples<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/disgrazia-san-gennaro\/#Via_Duomo\" title=\"Cathedral Street\">Cathedral Street<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>To the city of <strong>Naples<\/strong> numerous adjectives are attributed to it. Some call it dynamic, others mysterious or even fascinating, but the true soul of Naples is to be found precisely in its inhabitants and their traditions. One of the most interesting aspects of the Neapolitan people is related to folk rituals and the <strong>superstition<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We interviewed <strong>Gennaro Di Biase<\/strong> who in his novel <strong>The Disgrace of San Gennaro<\/strong>, interpreted in a comic key as well, deepens this way of doing things.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the novel opens with an event that would indeed be an ominous sign for any Neapolitan, even a nonbeliever: the breaking of the<strong>ampoule<\/strong> containing the blood of the <strong>Patron Saint<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maurizio de Giovanni<\/strong> said of the novel, \"The dizzying, uncontrollable story of a Mystery that creates so much mystery. The taut, sequential writing of a chronicler, seasoned with the irony and depth of a heartfelt witness. A must read, absolutely.\"<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Porta_anche_il_nome_del_patrono_della_citta_quanto_la_sua_storia_di_scrittore_e_legata_alla_cultura_napoletana\"><\/span>You are also named after the city's patron saint, how much is your history as a writer linked to Neapolitan culture?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>My Neapolitan-ness, like that of so many, has had a path of flight and return. When, after my university studies in <strong>Bologna<\/strong>, I returned to <strong>Naples<\/strong>, the city became a kind of \"base\" on which to rest the writing. Something solid and known to tell. Naples is a way for me to find a meeting point, not always easy to reach, between the <strong>writing<\/strong> and the <strong>lived<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Qual_e_il_suo_rapporto_con_i_termini_%E2%80%9Cdisgrazia%E2%80%9D_e_%E2%80%9Cscaramanzia%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>What is your relationship with the terms \"misfortune\" and \"superstition\"?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>To name the <strong>novella<\/strong> I needed a term that could represent the opposite of the <strong>miracle<\/strong>. In the Italian language there is no such word, since the <strong>miracle<\/strong> is an exceptional thing, and its opposite would therefore be \"normality.\" The choice of the <strong>misfortune<\/strong>, technically, comes from here. As for my relationship with the <strong>misfortune<\/strong>, I hope to keep as far away from it as possible. And so I also answer your question about my relationship with the <strong>superstition<\/strong>. P.S. Actually, to be honest, out of misfortunes also come new social solutions. And this cannot be ignored, for better or worse.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Il_romanzo_da_loccasione_di_ripercorrere_diversi_luoghi_come_Duomo_piazza_Mercato_Monteoliveto_Quale_di_questi_luoghi_partecipa_secondo_lei_maggiormente_al_racconto\"><\/span>The novel gives the opportunity to retrace different places such as Duomo, Piazza Mercato, Monteoliveto. Which of these places do you think participates most in the story?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Cathedral Street<\/strong>, no doubt. The road of the <strong>Cathedral<\/strong> turns into the <strong>San Gennaro's week<\/strong>: the stalls, the horn sellers, that almost lustless, all-Neapolitan excitement that transvests the crosswalks between <strong>Cavour Square<\/strong> and <strong>Nicholas Love Square<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Qual_e_il_posto_della_citta_a_cui_e_piu_legato\"><\/span>What is the place in the city to which you are most attached?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>I honestly don't know. For work, I'm used to treating every piece of the city as being worth exactly as much as every other piece of the city. <strong>Naples<\/strong> and its paths, however chronically different, are one block. Those who take <strong>Naples<\/strong> must take the whole block: via Scarlatti and vico del Purgatorio, via Posillipo and Piscinola, the Virgins and via Calabritto. Only out of this fruit salad comes the <strong>portrait<\/strong> Of the city.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Le_tappe_principali_del_percorso_il_Duomo_di_Napoli\"><\/span>Highlights of the route: the Cathedral of Naples<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The <strong>Naples Cathedral<\/strong>, located in the heart of the city is undoubtedly the most important place in the story. From here the whole story begins, and it is the very first place that is mentioned in the novel, where the mysterious misfortune of the fall of the<strong>ampoule<\/strong> with the blood of <strong>San Gennaro<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Right in the <strong>Naples Cathedral<\/strong> Every year, the faithful or even just tourists curious to see with their own eyes the melting of the blood of the <strong>Patron Saint<\/strong> by <strong>Naples<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Via_Duomo\"><\/span>Cathedral Street<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In the book, the road that is the protagonist of the novel is mentioned with accurate descriptions , just <strong>via Duomo<\/strong>, which welcomes along its street the majestic <strong>Cathedral<\/strong>. During the week dedicated to the <strong>Patron<\/strong>, <strong>San Gennaro<\/strong>, this street acquires vibrancy and color. Walking down Via Duomo are many stores where you can enjoy Neapolitan food and more. Candy vendors scatter along the route making the way to the <strong>Naples Cathedral<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover with us the places in the novel The Disgrace of San Gennaro, described through the...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":15554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[310],"tags":[],"locations":[167,208],"class_list":["post-17507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-luoghi-delle-storie","locations-campania","locations-napoli"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17507"},{"taxonomy":"locations","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/locations?post=17507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}