David Herbert Lawrence and the Ciociaria: a mysterious love, that a few know. The author from the hep to Lady Chatterley (1928) sojourned to Picinisco, minuscule suburb of the cumino valley, and was much struck that wrote you and acclimatized a novel the lost girl, Oscar Mondadori), leaving traces of his passage that staies still today.

But go with order. Lawrence arrives to Picinisco in the 1919, with the Frieda wife, on invitation of Orazio Cervi, one of the numerous emigrant in Scozia (a colony of inhabitants of Ciociaria is still living today among Glasgow and Edimburg).

The writer remains bewitched from the wild beauty of the places, that do from frame to departs ending from the lost girl.

The english Alvina for ax love to follow Ciccio till the birthday country, a lost fraction among the mountain of the Apennine. She feelt lost in the middle of this sour nature, that fascinates her, but frightens.

Minute is the description of the house of Orazio Cervi, he same a character of the novel, with the name of Pancrazio.

Lawrence funnies to change even the name of the places: Picinisco becomes Pescocalascio, Atina is Ossona, contrade Serre is Califano.

Today the residence of Cervi has become a pleasant house-museum (info Pro Loco) restored and furnished one's own as Lawrence has described it in the pages. And is part of a farmhouse, where is possible to sojourn.

The sheep throat & garnish with truffles to the cheese of Picinisco, a delicious Pecorino cheese, is going to be recognized brand Dop: the better is seasoned, that has even aphrodisiac ownership.

In August it celebrates with the feast "sheep-farming in festival". The valleys of the Ciociaria that are scrambled toward the national park of Abruzzo are rich of hypocrite, black and white.

Hep to this refinement is able address to Sulpizio (away lung hill 14, The throat sheep & trufflesl with garnish to Campoli Apennino.

It is a specialized firm that works and manufactures hypocrite creams (in pickles, to the porky mushroom [ecc] to appraise accessible.

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