FOGGIA – Boxing and Baseball. Two “debut” sports at the Foggia Festival Sport Story, never told before and which, with two high-profile interpreters, finally find space. From the most intimate, adventurous and borderline pages of the giants of world boxing – protagonists of a composite trilogy – to the celebration of the toughest city in America, between the Bronx, Coney Island, Manhattan and Brooklyn, recounting that game “considered a cross between chess and foil”.
Monday 5 and Tuesday 6 December, at 18, in the Narrative Room of the “La Magna Capitana” Library in Foggia, it is the turn of Domenico Paris and Enrico Franceschini respectively to meet the public of the art and sports literature review organized by the Monti Uniti Foundation, Ubik, Library and Little Impertinent Company. The first of the two guests presents The maximum of passion. The novel of boxing (Absolutely Free, 2021), conversing with the journalist Michele Carelli also about the other two volumes that make up his trilogy on boxing: The middleweights are the maximum and Profession phenomena.
Furthermore, the inauguration of the exhibition titled World Champions (5.45 pm) will anticipate the presentation on 5 December and can be visited until 10 January. The second guest, Enrico Franceschini, one of the most important signatures of Italian journalism, presents his novel A perfect game (66Thand2nd, 2022), conversing with his colleague Enrico Ciccarelli. Theatrical incursions of the actors of the Piccola Compagnia are foreseen, inspired by the protagonist book of the evening. The maximum of passion. The boxing novel (Absolutely Free, 2021).
Great stories in which the re-enactment of boxing glories is intertwined with the story of the events that have characterized the lives of the protagonists, making them inimitable even outside the sixteen strings. The author creates unpublished profiles, trying to bring out the most intimate and least known dimension of those giants who have written unforgettable pages, unleashing the passion of the boxing people. Jack Johnson, Primo Carnera, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Sonny Liston, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Larry Holmes, Mike Tyson.
All protagonists of the most prestigious category, that of heavyweights. They have given great performances in the ring, remaining actors at the center of the narrative even in everyday life. Boxers and men without brakes. A perfect game (66Thand2nd,2022). She hasn’t found the right man yet, but she is madly in love with a sport. Maggie Bandini is thirty-five years old, a failed marriage behind her, two adorable children, little money in her pocket and only one passion: baseball, which she has been following since she was a child and she thinks she knows better than anyone.
Until the day a billionaire uncle dies, leaving her the New York Cannons, her favorite team, full of overpaid players, unable to win for too long: then she has to prove herself as she never did and become even the head coach to revive the club’s fortunes. Dominic Paris. He was born in Avezzano in 1977. He writes about shows, music, books and sports for “Metro”, “Satisfiction”, “The walk of Fame” and “Post.it”, and has collaborated with various national newspapers including, ” Il Foglio”, “Il Tempo”, “Gente”, “Class”, “Boxeringweb.it”, “La voce del Ribelle” and “The Fashionable Lampoon”. He has published five short story collections, “La via difficile” (Tracce, 2003), “Fuorifuoco” (GiveMeAChance, 2010), “Roma Kaputt Mundi” (Valletta, 2015), “I medi sono il massimo” (Absolutely Free, 2020 ), and “The ring is honest” (GiveMeAChance, 2013). Enrico Franceschini. He is a writer and journalist. He held the position of correspondent for the newspaper “la Repubblica”, in the offices of London, New York, Washington, Moscow and Jerusalem. His work “Living to write” was a finalist at the Estense Prize in 2018. Among his books: “Londra Babilonia” (Laterza, 2011), “Vinca il Worse. The most beautiful basketball game of my life” (66th and 2nd, 2017), “The man of the Old Town” (Feltrinelli, 2017), “Living to write. 40 novelists tell their story” (Laterza, 2018), “Bassa marea” (Rizzoli, 2019) and “Ferragosto” (Rizzoli, 2021).
