Angelo Feo was born on July 18th, 1931 in San Mauro Cilento. He feels great nostalgia for the past. The main occupation of the people of Cilento was “working the...
Category - Centenarians
Amalia Esposito was born in Centola on January 5, 1917. Daughter of a seamstress and midwife and a father working the land, for much of her life she was a peasant. She...
Vittorio Colantuono is 90 years old and was born in Villanova del Battista. “In the countryside”, not “in the village”, as he himself points out. And it is in the...
Veturia Vestucci was born on 5 September 1930 in San Mauro Cilento (Salerno). Hers was a peasant family even though her mother was a seamstress and was very much...
Pasqualino Vestucci was born in San Mauro Cilento in 1929 but spent a good part of his life in Naples, teaching as a lecturer in Child Neuropsychiatry at the University...
Maria Di Rienzo is one of the most loved women of Pioppi (Pollica – Salerno), the place chosen by Ancel Keys and Margaret Haney as their summer residence. Her...
Giuseppe Barbiero, known as Peppino, was born in Jelsi (Campobasso) in 1940. “With the war”, he says. He has always been a farmer, indeed a producer of wheat. A grain of...
Evelina Scarpa has been married for about 70 years and has lived between Gioi, Cilento and Switzerland. His story is all about flour and its different uses. It starts...
Diodoro Ricci is one of the wheat producers of San Marco dei Cavoti (Benevento) engaged in the ritual Parade of the lily which takes place every year in July as a sign...
Carmine Di Pizzo is 90 years old and has always lived in Cuccaro Vetere (Salerno), with the exception of his military service in the Cavalleria in Turin. By profession...