A dramatized reading of the play "ROME WITHOUT POPE, THE SHORT DREAM OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC", by Riccardo Cochetti, will be housed in the Museum of the Roman Republic and of Garibaldi's memory Tuesday 17 March, on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of its inauguration.
During the event, the book of the same name, published by Edizioni Ensemble of Rome, will also be presented to the public for the first time.
The event will be introduced by the Museum Manager, Dr Mara Minasi, who edited the preface to the book, and by the author. The reading will be entrusted to the actors Severino Briccarello, in the part of Giuseppe Mazzini, Pamela DeBiase, as Margaret Fuller, an American journalist and former New York Daily Tribune correspondent, e Maria Theresa DiGennaro in the part of Annetta Cimarra, wife of Angelo Brunetti, known as Ciceruacchio.
Four original pieces of music form an integral part of the work, specially composed and performed by M.° Joseph Christmas and the reading of selected verses taken from "Our history" by the Roman poet Cesare Pascarella, interpreted by the voice of Fabio De Pasqualis.
The complete audio recording of the theatrical performance, including incidental music, and the single tracks of the four pieces of music are contained in a CD accompanying the volume produced by the Heristal Entertainment Music Publishing.
The text, intended for both theater and dramatized reading, is quite rare in the vast literary panorama on the subject and the historical period of the Roman Republic of 1849. Created thanks to a vast and in-depth documentary and bibliographic research on the Roman Republic, the pièce , set in Rome on 7 July 1849 in the days immediately following the surrender of the Republic, returns through the three characters the most salient atmospheres and facts of the brief and glorious Roman Republic.
Both the military framework - the French aggression, the armistice, the siege and the surrender - and the administrative-political structure - the elections for the Constituent Assembly, the revolutionary governmental choices and the promulgation of the Constitution are explored. There is no lack of references to the relations between the various Italian states, to the foreign situation with France, Austria, the United States and to the political differences between Mazzini and Marx.
In addition to offering the publication of the unpublished theatrical text, the complex editorial project aims to contribute to the dissemination of greater knowledge on the period and events of the Republic: the pièce "Rome without Pope, the short dream of the Roman Republic" is therefore enriched by the chronology of events treated in the work, by a brief biography of the characters mentioned and by the description of an itinerary - enhanced by photos of Mark Five – along places which, on the Janiculum Hill and its surroundings, saw the battles for the defense of the Republic and the French siege against the city take place between 30 April and 30 June 1849.
