A Catania di speciale c’è anche questo. Qui le stagioni non sono come le abbiamo imparate a scuola, non durano pochi mesi e non si susseguono con un ordine stabilito e regolato dai cicli della natura. No, a Catania può capitare che inverno e primavera durino degli anni e può anche capitare che la gente accolga l’evento con la tipica scrollata di spalle del siciliano rassegnato. «E chi cci putemu fari?». And so on, until you do not know what the phenomenon, a "new" that might give the scossettina to change everything, so all that remains always equal to itself ...
To tell the penultimate decade of "our" Catania (ie the nineties), we thought King Charles I, former student of the extreme right, in a book out recently (Spring of Catania, Enzo Bianco and Nello Musumeci and consensus between government , Bonanno, pp. 150, € 13.00), built on the figures of two administrators and political protagonists the decade 1993-2003, the decade of the "spring of Catania", namely the revival of the city, the desire to exit the tunnel of the 100 murder victims a year of ill repute, lace-wear and existential precariousness .
Enzo Bianco (former Republican mayor of Catania from '93 to '99, then Interior Minister D'Alema government) and Nello Musumeci (President province of Catania from 2003 to '94, former MEP and MSI doc stravotato), two young Sicilians different but basically so similar. The first is career with the La Malfa father and son, was elected mayor of Catania in disbelief, for the first time in '88, but just a little over a year to figure out what stuff is done. Already in the end of the decade, when Catania is an untranslatable lot of ill repute, thanks to him begins to breathe fresh air, clean. Catania I remember it a few years later, when thanks to the law for the direct election of the mayor to send him directly to rule over the town after a runoff with Claudio Fava, Goofy's son, killed by the Mafia .
Musumeci, invece, è “allievo” di Enzo Trantino, monarchico, avvocato di fama e gran signore e di Vito Cusimano missino d’antica foggia. Ammira Almirante (in verità chi non ammira o ammirava Almirante a Catania?), ed è testardo e battagliero. Quando nel febbraio del ’94 vince al ballottaggio col docente centrista Mangiameli, anche la sinistra comincia a innamorarsi di lui .
In realtà a quel tempo, a Catania, dire cosa è di destra o cosa di sinistra è un bel problema. È un esempio (in positivo) the end of ideology. What matters are the facts and "facts" of our two managers are specialists. Inaugurate a season of dialogue with the citizens as he had never seen before (want to put a gray bureaucrat Democrat, struggled with Italian running a guest on TV?), Like culture (yes, Catania had a culture with capital C, if you can), and enter into a period of collaboration between research institutions, universities, church, police forces and the freedom of association. In the nineties in Catania crimes decreased by a couple of zeros and companies discover new opportunities to highlight and export the "product" Etna. In 2000 Catania shows how our country growth model to the European Council in Lisbon. It is the victory of a "piece of the world" forgotten. There is optimism (especially among young people, who are given what basically seek opportunities to show off, and tools for planning the future). The results are these: the international center "Etna Valley" long-haul roads, work for the port, airport and subway .
The beauty of the city seem to flourish: with old and new buildings and theaters. Museums are born, si inaugurano mostre (nella storia quella dei “futuristi” e degli “aeropittori” al centro “Ciminiere”, già pietra dello scandalo della tangentopoli catanese). La città prende vita: d’estate con Franco Battiato, Vincenzo Spampinato e l’“Etna Jazz” e in qualunque periodo della stagione con la “movida” e i pub in stile irlandese .
Tutto bene dunque. Già… solo che il finale del libro di Lo Re è triste come una poesia di Emily Dickinson. Dopo l’uscita di scena dei due “mattatori” rimane ben poco, solo il ricordo di una stagione irripetibile. Una “primavera” lunga dieci primavere. Come solo a Catania può succedere .
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