“Tutte le tempestose passioni dell'umanità, ... sono trascorse come immagini riflesse in uno specchio, senza lasciare traccia sul misterioso volto del mare”
Joseph Conrad
Malgrado da secoli si dica, e sia stato scritto anche sul Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana dell'EUR di Roma, che siamo un popolo di navigatori, il nostro Paese è al contrario molto lontano dal mare, sempre che non lo si confonda con la spiaggia. Questa lontananza riguarda first culture and, specifically, literature. E 'therefore doubly welcome the anthology, or to stay in theme, the paper vessel built by Giorgio Bertone, professor of Italian Literature at the University of Genoa. "Tales from the wind and sea" (2010, Einaudi, Tonino, pp. 578, € 22) is a large vessel, in which the trustee holds uploaded some of the most beautiful and useful pages of the sea, from the stories mythical, until you get to those in the twentieth century. We must say that the Italian authors in the anthology are a minority, with the exception of the chapter entitled "The sea of \u200b\u200bpeople who have never seen the sea", which contains among other stories Eugenio Montale and Cesare Pavese and Edmondo De Amicis. Italian is still one of the authors of reference Bertone, quell'Antonio Guglielmotti Dominican priest and author of the invaluable "Vocabulary marine and military in 1889. Not just a dictionary but a veritable compendium unsurpassed art of surfing. If the Guglielmotti through its entries have "virtual written stories, the ones that Italy ever wrote on the seas," Herman Melville's seafaring epic is the unrivaled giant ocean. His "Moby Dick or the White Whale," is "a 'work world," comparable to the great classical epics. " It 'just to inform us that Melville "More accurate, concreta e precisa è la terminologia più diventa utile anche per nutrire l'immaginazione e la leggenda”.
La smisurata grandezza degli oceani di ieri e di oggi è raccontata magistralmente da Joseph Conrad, Jack London, Robert Luis Stevenson o dai “vagabondi” solitari Joshua Slocum e Bernard Moitessier. Un spazio è dedicato anche alle vicende corsare di Giuseppe Garibaldi, ambientate lungo le coste dell'America del Sud. “Corsaro! lanciato sull'Oceano con dodici compagni a bordo di una garopera, si sfidava un impero, e si facea sventolare per i primi, in quelle meridionali coste, una bandiera d'emancipazione! La bandiera repubblicana del Rio-Grande!”, scrive il Generale. Esperienze fondamentali per to mature and useful military successes to the Italian cause, by the tragic flight to Venice, to the successful navigation of a Thousand.
Very impressive are also the "Scattered Voices" gathered at the beginning of Bertone, a kind of micro-medley that ideally combines all the people of the sea, according to those who expect English adage "the first round of propeller" to pay for all debts. In closing "Last alerts" provides a small but annotated bibliography, useful to those starting by the anthology will continue its course to the vast, often uncertain horizons of knowledge. If the author has felt a duty to hear the voices "highest and most noble that ever raised to tell human experience of wind and sea ", so to say every Italian citizen of a Mediterranean peninsula, should have read a few of these exciting stories.
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