The eighteenth-century party of the “Ziti” at La Scala, between Salvator Rosa and costume delights

It could be said that nothing is missing in the great program developed by Monique Veaute for the Spoleto Festival, presented yesterday with a large press conference and a very private dinner at the French Academy, by the African-American artist Lonnie Holley with his raw sonorities at the symbolist theater by Maurice Maeterlinck, the range is rich and broad, very international. Almost too international, one might say, given that lately, in Italy, instead, the Neapolitan spirit has been brought a lot. Of course, it is de rigueur don’t take her to Naples. In fact, it leads to Florence, where the new president of Pitti Immagine is Antonio De Matteis, heir to the Kiton dynasty of Ciro Paone, sixty years of jackets cut and fitted in the Neapolitan style, which in reality is a school at least as old as the elegance of painter of the same name from the early eighteenth century who illuminates visits to Capodimonte. Naples also moves into hyper-pop entertainment, with the serial “Mare fuori” and the anthology of semi-envious imitations in Genoese (“Mâ Feua”) and other less valuable vernaculars of Neapolitan which instead is a language, grammar and including syntax and literature.