The courage of the pettirox

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The courage of the pettirossus is a 1995 novel by Maurizio Maggiani. In the same year he won the Premio Campiello and the Premio Viareggio.

Trama
Alexandria, beginning of the 1970s. Saverio Pascale, a young man from the local Italian community, is stuck in a hospital bed, after he felt badly after a dive. Dr. Modrian, the Armenian doctor who follows Saverio, hypotheses a cerebral embolism and to speed up his healing recommends him to write.

Saverio tells his life as a stateless, son of an anarchist baker who emigrated from Italy after World War II, and disappeared between the waters of the port of Alessandria after a swim. Having inherited the bakery, Saverio does not continue his paternal activity but continues to spend the days as a calf, between the Diwan Nabil coffee and the typography of the Battistini brothers.
To escape boredom, Saverio takes a trip into the desert to the back of asina and, in the oasis of Siwa, he gets acquainted with Sinai refugees, fleeing the Israeli advance of the Six Day War. He then decides to embark on a journey to Italy, to see the village of Carlomagno in Lunigiana, where his father was born and whose inhabitants are considered the descendants of the last Apuani escaped the enslavement and genocide by the ancient Romans. He then embarks on a merchant ship that runs to Naples and is held a few days in Rome to visit the city and shop for his Alexandrian friends. Here, having learned that the poet Ungaretti will hold a public meeting, makes you participate. His feeling towards him is ambivalent: he appreciates it as an artist, but, conditioned by his anarchist cultural background, he does not forgive him for joining fascism. Saverio, however, fails to outsource these thoughts and only tells him that his father met him one day; then he is taken from two bourgeois agents who, having heard of his clandestine entrance to Italy, force him on the first plane to Cyprus. In the meantime, however, he receives from Ungaretti an enigmatic envelope containing a leaflet from which it turns out that a certain Pascal of Charlemagne was put to the stake as an heretic in the early seventeenth century. Hidden by this fact, which may concern an ancestor of his, Saverio puts himself on research in the Egyptian libraries, getting acquainted, in the Coptic monastery of Abu Makar, of the young Ethiopian monk Azena, with whom he binds of friendship, and, at the Al-Azhar University of Cairo, of Fatiha, a Palestinian terrorist who dreams of being obstetric and of which.

Saverio starts dreaming of Pascal's story, adding a new episode every night. These, after being a soldier and having ward in Flanders and Germany, had entered the dependencies of the Marquis of Bramapane, under whose protection the inhabitants of Charlemagne were placed. For these, who for centuries enjoyed particulars