"Vincenzo De Luca blocks my presence at the Ravello Festival. No problem, Don Vicié, I will not be there ... grab all that is or vuost ...".
This is the message published on social media by the writer Roberto Saviano and which accompanies a video of just under four minutes in which the writer, not without irony, denounces that the Campania governor Vincenzo De Luca has blocked his participation as a guest at the Ravello Festival.
A case that prompted the intellectual Antonio Scurati, who headed the Ravello Foundation for a few weeks, to resign immediately and irrevocably.
"Unfortunately, a few days were enough to ascertain that the founding members of the Ravello Foundation do not respect intellectual freedom and ignore the values of culture", wrote Scurati in the letter sent to the board. "As a man of culture and, above all, as a free man, I choose to resign from the office of president". In recent days the Ravello Foundation had first called for Thursday 17 June and then canceled the press conference for the presentation of the bill, officially due to "commitments of some of the participants".
But the postponement was not enough to prevent the case from breaking out. "I imagined President De Luca receiving the list of guests of the Ravello Festival and seeing my name appear in the last days of August", Roberto Saviano began in the video who, then, imitating the former mayor of Salerno, he said: "'Ah, and here is Roberto Saviano. And how Scurati has allowed himself to invite him. At my house, Roberto Saviano. "More or less - added the writer - I think Don Vincenzo, the sheriff did so. Who considers Campania his property, his kingdom, he would like to be in Naples. Well, maybe he will succeed, but not now". Saviano has, therefore,explained that he was invited to the Ravello Festival and that his participation would be free of charge. "When the president De Luca declares the niet to a name, I believe in this case not only mine, he immediately suggests: 'if he is not my friend, then he is your friend, and you cannot use the festival to invite your friends'". Saviano then explained that "I will not go to the Ravello festival, I hope I will go to Ravello soon, a land that I love, whose beauty does not depend on the Campania region, administrators and governors, they have only inherited beauty, they have not Indeed. They are poisoning it. Once again a festival that could have been wonderful, a wonderful land, is conditioned by the coterie ".When the president De Luca declares the niet to a name, I believe in this case not only mine, he immediately suggests: 'if he is not my friend, then he is your friend, and you cannot use the festival to invite your friends' ". Saviano, then, explained that" I will not go to the Ravello festival, I hope to go to Ravello soon, a land that I love, whose beauty does not depend on the Campania region, administrators and governors, they have only inherited beauty , they did not create it. Rather. They are poisoning her. Once again a festival that could have been wonderful, a wonderful land, is conditioned by factions ".When the president De Luca declares the niet to a name, I believe in this case not only mine, he immediately suggests: 'if he is not my friend, then he is your friend, and you cannot use the festival to invite your friends' ". Saviano, then, explained that" I will not go to the Ravello festival, I hope to go to Ravello soon, a land that I love, whose beauty does not depend on the Campania region, administrators and governors, they have only inherited beauty , they did not create it. Rather. They are poisoning her. Once again a festival that could have been wonderful, a wonderful land, is conditioned by factions ".. Saviano then explained that "I will not go to the Ravello festival, I hope I will go to Ravello soon, a land that I love, whose beauty does not depend on the Campania region, administrators and governors, they have only inherited beauty, they have not Indeed. They are poisoning it. Once again a festival that could have been wonderful, a wonderful land, is conditioned by the coterie ".. Saviano then explained that "I will not go to the Ravello festival, I hope I will go to Ravello soon, a land that I love, whose beauty does not depend on the Campania region, administrators and governors, they have only inherited beauty, they have not Indeed. They are poisoning it. Once again a festival that could have been wonderful, a wonderful land, is conditioned by the coterie ".
Governor Vincenzo De Luca, in the usual Friday appointment, without ever mentioning the Ravello Festival, had explained that "the initiatives that are set up must be consistent with the nature of the festivals that are held or of the foundations. do impromptu things that have nothing to do with it ". For the president of the regional council "the events that are proposed must not be marked by conflicts of interest on the part of those who propose them" and "everything that finances the Campania Region must not be an opportunity for anyone to promote a system of relations personal or to spend a few days of vacation at the expense of the Region, but they must be events in the most absolute transparency ". De Luca, therefore, concluded by saying that "the rules are the ones I reminded you, otherwise you realize that there are no coincidences of objectives and you separate. Nothing particularly dramatic. "Scurati's reaction was not long in coming: irrevocable resignations and a fuss that is destined to leave important aftermath.
