A literary park in the quiet of the Valcomino; twelve communes where green, muffle, concentration, historical-cultural testimonies doesn't miss and they do balance before to anyone wants twist the characteristics of the zone.

The proposal, brave and convinced, comes from Gerardo Vacana president of the Valcomino prize come to its XXI edition.

"It may behaviour, is enough believe and undertake all". Where begin?

To be vain exact it has already started the ambitious project, How?

Stopping, creditable to the availability of the given gentlemen and Antonio Pacitti (actual owners of the immovable property) the transformation in farmhouse of the house, where, to Picinisco, in the 1919, the English writer David Herbert Lawrence found enamel it and the correct inspiration to write his masterpiece the lost girl, work acclimatized one's own in those places.

The great novelist was sheltered in contradicts greenhouses, out of from the progress, far from the civilization behind the Apennine. Picinisco, other center of the valley, the residence of Horace bucks that it had guest (All'incontro stamps there was the Giustino child with the wife, besides the Anthony alderman Lombard and to the provincial adviser Dionisio straw), characteristic places and Fors'anche persons of the place is found in the novel of Lawrence. In the loving interlacement among albino and Ciccio (English of good family, he emigrant that is improvises artist wander about abroad, but cultivates the earth in native). And Picinisco has an other buttonhole, adds Vacana Giustino fits with iron, journalist and narrator.

And then the idea of the park with statues of the Lawrence consorts, of the more important characters from the lost girl, of Horace bucks, a museum, a Lawrence center studies with cultural and naturalistic itinerary. the prize of this year? Tonino Guerra for poetry, and Olimpo Forte for for the historical essay writing, Maeleine Santschi for the translation. They stay to assign sections for journalism and literary essay. Problems? Worry, says Vacana.

The consistence of the available found? Province and commune of Alvito have done they depart.

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