{"id":1778,"date":"2025-03-31T09:26:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T07:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guideturistichepavia.it\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2025-04-03T22:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T20:06:21","slug":"the-stories-behind-when-crime-meets-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guideturistichepavia.it\/en\/le-storie-dietro-quando-il-giallo-incontra-la-memoria\/","title":{"rendered":"The stories behind: when mystery meets memory"},"content":{"rendered":"

The taste of life in dialects and crimes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I met Vittorio Nichilo<\/strong> during a guided tour. He had come with his junior high school students from Brescia<\/strong>, where he lives and works. Between one monument and another, he told me that he wrote about local history<\/strong>, but that he had recently published some detective stories<\/strong>, and that his grandfather was a doctor in Tromello<\/strong>, in the Pavia area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought to myself that there were two reasons why it would be interesting to invite him to our small library in Pavia Est<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vittorio Nichilo<\/a>, a teacher, is also a local historian<\/strong> and publicist journalist<\/strong>. He is connected to the Pavia area<\/strong> through family ties. He collaborates with the cultural page of the Giornale di Brescia<\/strong> and is also involved in theater for children<\/strong>: in the past, he created the \"Classi(ci) in scena<\/strong>\" series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The collection of detective stories entitled \"Le storie dietro, i racconti del maresciallo Manassero<\/strong>\"<\/em> represents his debut in the world of fiction<\/strong>. The volume was awarded at the Villa Annoni competition in Cuggiono<\/strong>, promoted by the Ecoistituto della Valle del Ticino. It is a collection of ten detective stories that, although independent, are structured as a novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why \"the stories behind\"<\/em>?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Because each of us has a story behind us<\/strong> and, in the case of these stories, they are fundamental to understanding the dynamics<\/strong> of the various crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The stories are set in Monferrato<\/strong>, Langhe<\/strong>, and Riviera ligure<\/strong>, a territory that has much in common with our Pavese<\/strong>. The events take place in the province of Alessandria<\/strong>, in a town called Castel Merlino<\/em> \u2013 a fictional name that actually conceals Gamalero<\/strong>, the town of Olga, the author's maternal grandmother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marshal Filiberto Manassero<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In the various stories, Marshal Manassero<\/strong> and his carabinieri investigate crimes committed by elderly people who kill other elderly people<\/strong> for events that occurred years earlier. A deep analysis of how some dynamics of the mind<\/strong> can survive over time and turn into extreme, unexpected gestures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Manassero, in addition to solving the case, it is essential to understand the stories that lie behind each person: victim or perpetrator, everyone has a world behind them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another distinctive feature of these stories is the presence of dialects<\/strong>: Piedmontese, Venetian, Brescian, Sicilian, and many others. These different voices give substance to the characters, creating a choral effect that makes the events even more realistic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the author would say, dialects are the language of the heart, the language of emotions, the one that gives \"saor\" to life<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An event not to be missed<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The book presentation<\/strong> will be held on Friday April 12 at 5:00 PM<\/strong>
at the Pavia Est Neighborhood Library<\/strong>, in Via dei Pollaioli 30, Pavia<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Il sapore della vita nei dialetti e nei delitti Ho conosciuto Vittorio Nichilo durante una visita guidata: arrivava con i […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_piecal_is_event":true,"_piecal_start_date":"2025-04-12T17:00:00","_piecal_end_date":"2025-04-12T19:00:00","_piecal_is_allday":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[133,132,131],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eventi","tag-filiberto-manassero","tag-le-storie-dietro","tag-vittorio-nichilo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guideturistichepavia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guideturistichepavia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guideturistichepavia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guideturistichepavia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guideturistichepavia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.guideturistichepavia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guideturistichepavia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guideturistichepavia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guideturistichepavia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guideturistichepavia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}