The New Series Of Bishops

Ripatransone - Episcopio 1900c - Foto Di Bruti Liberati

Una Filza Di Parole (Poesie e Sonetti In Lingua Dialettale di Ripatransone)

Scritto Da: Alfredo Rossi

Pagina: 117/118 di 224

Anno: 1999

Editore: Maroni

Comment:

The New Series Of Bishops, is a poem written by Alfredo Rossi, an elementary teacher, now retired, and scholar of the local dialect and poet.

This poem is full of anger, translated into allegory, for a decision made by a contemporary bishop, Ripatransone and Montalto Delle Marche are no more the diocese capitals.

The new capital is San Benedetto del Tronto, wet by the Adriatic sea.

Ripatransone and Montalto are two villages, called cities because from the 1571 to the end of 1900 have been capital dioceses.

In the first stanza, the Ripani (the local inhabitants) are happy for the new bishop Gervasio Gestori and his visit in date Sunday 29 September 1996,

Every Ripano was sad because in a couple of hours, the new bishop will leave the village for San Benedetto, observing the empty episcopio.

Up here in Ripatransone and Montalto, two sheeps, have been eaten by a fish and now we can only remember, the past.

After four centuries of history, someone has decided and obtained to delete two bishops, for beginning a new series of bishops.

These are the third and fourth stanzas, of this poem, the most powerful.

In the last stanza there is an open question telling to the reader that this decision has not resolved the true problem, the lack of priests and vocations.

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