Sammichele of Bari through the Onciario land register of 1752

Demographic, family and social frames. 

Sammichele of Bari through the Onciario land register of 1752

In memory of Lorella Cedroni

Contents

This work represents a clear vision of a déjà–vu. We’re witnessing, not exempt, to an economic global crisis followed by the increase of unemployment, especially young, and we are sunk into the vortex of ungovernability. 

Taxes spare the wealthy and oppresses the humble, indeed, fees seem thought for them. The problems which threaten the daily life and from which we haven’t a chance to escape, our ancestors have already seen and experienced them. And it isn’t necessary a seance session to say that, but a visit to the state archives, otherwise known as places of memory, born to preserve the traces of the past.

Strengths

It’s a journey back in time to understand how the situation has evolved in our country, because present and future aren’t released from the past but represent the result. At the archival papers thought up the authoress who restores voice to bygone era people and dusts off environments and political scenarios that were the background to the events of the Eighteenth Century.

Will be considerable the interest in discovering the profiles of family, work and income life in a period in which the redaction of the Onciario land register was designed to ensure a fair distribution of taxes in the Kingdom of Naples.

For what readership 

For those who want to experience the adventure of a sectorial reading, but not incomprehensible. For those who have always wanted to make time travel. Broadly speaking, this book permits it. For all those who are curious to know if in the past there ever was a form of social justice. For those who want to look back to be able to project it more elastically to the future. For those who love history, the discipline that allows to join with own collective identity. For young people who are on the verge of conducting studies on archival sources.

Our face embroidered cross-stitch? Yes, we can

I no longer believe in this society

     My name is Silvana Calabrese, graduated student in Communication Sciences at the University of Bari, writing to express my deep disappointment about different topics.

     What prompts me to write to you is the deep anxiety that loom me recently. It concerns my future career on which hangs the darkest darkness. But reflecting on it I came to the conclusion that unemployment is the lesser of evils in our society. Any initiative healthy and constructive comes to mind of a young person inevitably encounters some insurmountable obstacles. And there is no greater outrage that the nature of these obstacles. I have little more than twenty-two years ago and I think I’m too young to have already lost faith and hope, and I not only speak of faith in God, who blame him for having given us free will, the more unhappy decision that could take because no man is able to manage themselves. I no longer believe in the society in which I live.

     I’ll do some example from my own life. I am the author of a book, a scientific paper in which writing I thought a lot. But to take off my work has been a hell. Publishers to whom I turned really appreciated the content, the problem was my lack of notoriety. During the heated discussions with them it has been pulled out a name: Franzoni. It was explained to me that the company would prefer to read her book because of the attraction provoked by bloody crime events even if linked to the brutal murder of a child.

     On the tastes we shouldn’t discuss but there is a limit to everything. Over the years have been lost some of the values ​​that made us human, but now we have retained only the human form. At the same moment when I felt frustrated for my book I was struck by a news: "He invested four boys: now he’s a star. € 50 thousand to write the book. Is how he should collect Marco Ahmetovic, the twenty-two years old Rumanian sentenced to six years a half in the first instance for the massacre of Appignano del Tronto, where died, hit by the van drunk nomadic, four young of the small town near Ascoli Piceno".

     I don’t think is necessary to comment the news. We have dismounted. Every action has its consequences, the worst is yet to come, but we are still on time for a turnaround. It’s not the society changing, but individuals who compose it.

     I highly doubt that I received a response, people don’t ever deny. 

     Source "La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno", an italian newspaper, June 25, 2009, p. 24.

Carvings. Dolphin with banana

Carvings. Orca with cucumber

Let’s celebrate Labor Day!

     Labor Day (U.S.) or Labour Day is a national annual holiday to celebrate workers. It falls on the first Monday of September.

     It’s similar to the International Workers’ Day that is celebrated in the other countries in the world.

Generally this federal holiday corresponds with the end of the summer season.

     In this important day people celebrate social and economic achievements of American workers by the creation of the labour union movement.

     The first Labor Day was celebrated in 1882 in New York by the Central Labor Union. Two years later that holiday was observed by many industrial centers of the country.

     Then, from a legislative point of view, that holiday rose and in 1894 almost the totality of the states followed Labor Day till the Congress approved an act making the first Monday of September of each year a legal holiday in the national territories. 

     Since the XIX century this Nationwide holiday has a lot of exhibitions with street parades and amusement for workers and their families. 

Origami 3D. Frog or toad