Not at all Unesco, the cult of San Gennaro already belongs to the whole world

He is proposing to include the blood miracle in the list of intangible cultural heritage. Is there a need? The precedent of Pulcinella, the civic nature of the celebration and a faith that overcomes the skeptics

Paolo Sorrentino gave him the last face, with the likeness of Enzo Decaro in the autobiographical film It was the hand of Godwhen he picks up the busty Patrizia with his vintage Rolls-Royce at a bus stop. The last face of San Gennaro is this, his dress is a tuxedo and you immediately imagine his intent: seduction. She is Luisa Ranieri, titular in the story and perhaps not by chance of the name of the co-patron of Naples: Santa Patrizia virgin granddaughter of Emperor Constantine. A more visionary than blasphemous encounter between the two, fruit of the affectionate fabric of dreams in which the domestic elf that has populated Neapolitan homes for centuries also appears: the monacoello. The same plot, a sentimental confidence that prevails over doctrinal coherence, spun Matilde Serao when he wrote of San Gennaro in his novels, or of monacoello and the sirens in the Neapolitan Legends reprinted periodically until today, testifying to the coexistence of Christianity, paganism and superstition in the Neapolitan imagination. Cultured and plebeian. Bourgeois or popular.