Pasquale Pisano and Gerardo Candela tell the possible origins of the priest’s typical chestnut. The most probable hypotheses are a casual discovery of some monks in a monastery or a landowner notary who carried out this type of process

Interview by: Rossella Galletti and Antonio Puzzi
Video by: Rossella Galletti and Antonio Puzzi. Editing by: Mariangela Bianco
Document by: Mariangela Bianco
Translate: Mariangela Bianco
MedEatResarch – Center of Social Research on the Mediterranean Diet of the University of Naples Suor Orsola Benincasa, head by Marino Niola and Elisabetta Moro
Gerardo Candela

Gerardo Candela

City: Ospedaletto d’Alpinolo (AV)
Profession: Trader
Languages: Italian, campano dialect

Pasquale Pisano

Pasquale Pisano

City: Ospedaletto d’Alpinolo (AV)
Profession: Business owner
Languages: Italian, campano dialect

Video table of contents

00:00:09 Foundation myth
00:01:17 Historical context

Geographic information

Country: IT
Region: Campania
City: Ospedaletto d’Alpinolo (AV)
Altitude: 725m. s.l.m.