Walk the City of the Dead: Lecce's monumental cemetery
ETERNITY'S ONE-WAY STREET: Lecce's massive cemetery gate In his Fable of Love (Fiaba d'amore) , Italian contemporary novelist Antonio Moresco sends two lovers to the city of the dead, there to find one another once again. " 'Where am I?' said the marvellous girl to herself, looking around in that large city, dark and deserted, where she had just arrived." The necropolis Moresco creates is a muffled version of the Milanesque city where the couple first meet and die. Still, his city of the dead has all the infrastructure of the big metropolis. It's just notably quieter; a more reflective setting for his reader to roam about, following the lovers' search. Antonio Moresco by Luigi Tiriticco It comes to me that Moresco has spent hours wandering boneyards, absorbing their atmospheres, inventing his alt-city. He sketches his place of the dead - forgive the pun - from life. Replete with railway stations, eateries and traffic lights, the nec...