MYTHS AND HEROES
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Fabrizio De Andrè
Fabrizio De Andrè was one of the biggest Italian singers and song-writers of all times.
He was born in Genova in 1940 by a bourgeois family. When he was a child, he showed an innate desire to carry out his ideas. When he was only seventeen years old, he wrote his first song: “La canzone
di Marinella”(“The song of Marinella”).
Soon De Andrè was interested in the problems of society. Then, in 1972, he published one of his most
important albums : “La storia di un impiegato” (“The story of an employee”). After three years , he made
his first concert. In 1984 and in 1986 he recorded two live-albums. In 1999 De Andrè left the world for
which he fought a lot, but he also left a great number of exciting and amazing songs that also today told
us the values of life. He is also well known for his ballad inspired by Lee Masters, “L’antologia di Spoon
River”
Phalanthus - Taras
In the beautiful city of Tarentum, Apulia’s chief town, a lot of myths were born.
Spartans attributed the foundation to Phalantus who, leaving for Apulia, received a prediction from the oracle: he would build a city where the rain of a shining sky would wet him; his wife, in effect, wet his face crying.
Others consider as founder of Tarentum Poseidon’s son, Taras, who built the city near the homonymous
river and dedicated the city of Saturo to his wife Satureia. So Tarentum became devoted to his father Poseidon.
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