“ERA DE MAGGIO”. THE MASTERPIECE OF SALVATORE DI GIACOMO AND PASQUALE MARIO COSTA IN THE INTERPRETATION BY ENRICO CARUSO REPRESENTS THE COMMON THREAD RUNNING ACCROSS THE NEW NOVEL BY RAFFAELE LAURO, “DON ALFONSO 1890 - SALVATORE DI GIACOMO AND SANT’AGATA SUI DUE GOLFI”. AN EMOTIONAL NARRATIVE TRIBUTE TO THE GOLDEN ERA OF NEAPOLITAN SONG

29-04-2017
by Francesca Maresca Among the hundreds of pages of the novel it is not easy to discover a not ritual, not rhetoric but intense, exciting and personalized celebration of the golden age of the classical Neapolitan song which flourished in Naples in the Piedigrotta’s environment from the end of the nineteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century through its most celebrated protagonists, songwriters, composers and music [..]

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SALVATORE DI GIACOMO AND VICO EQUENSE. THE GREAT NEAPOLITAN POET WAS CLOSLEY BONDED NOT ONLY WITH AGEROLA AND SANT’AGATA SUI DUE GOLFI, BUT FROM THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY HE ALSO VISITED THE THERMAL BATHS OF SCRAJO IN VICO EQUENSE. UNEDITED EVENTS OF GREAT HISTORICAL INTEREST IN THE NEW NOVEL BY RAFFAELE LAURO, “DON ALFONSO 1890 - SALVATORE DI GIACOMO AND SANT’AGATA SUI DUE GOLFI”

25-04-2017
by Giuseppe d’Esposito When you read the novel by Raffaele Lauro, “Don Alfonso 1890 - Salvatore Di Giacomo and Sant’Agata sui Due Golfi”, you have the precise feeling of being inside an inexhaustible mine of historical, entirely unpublished facts and events that concern the whole Sorrentine Peninsula. Also in this work, after the celebration of our city from Mount Faito to the marinas in the third novel of “The [..]

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SALVATORE DI GIACOMO. PLACES OF THE SOUL OF THE GREAT NEAPOLITAN POET, AGEROLA AND SANT’AGATA SUI DUE GOLFI, TRIUMPH IN THE NEW NOVEL OF THE SORRENTINE WRITER RAFFAELE LAURO, “DON ALFONSO 1890 - SALVATORE DI GIACOMO AND SANT’AGATA SUI DUE GOLFI”. HISTORY, NATURAL BEAUTY, COLOURS, FRAGRANCES, SENSATIONS, NOT ONLY VISUAL PERCEPTIONS, FAMILY MEMORIES, VOICES FROM THE PAST AND INTENSE MOMENTS OF COMMUNITY LIFE

20-04-2017
by Antonino Siniscalchi The main locations of the new novel by Raffaele Lauro, “Don Alfonso 1890 - Salvatore Di Giacomo and Sant’Agata sui Due Golfi”, published by GoldenGate Edizioni of Rome, stretch from the Lattari Mountains to Punta della Campanella, from Bagni dello Scrajo of Vico Equense to Piazza Tasso of Sorrento, from the port of Naples to the port of New York, from Little Italy to Staten Island, from Monte San [..]

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DON ALFONSO 1890. IN THE NEW NOVEL BY RAFFAELE LAURO DEDICATED TO THE FAMOUS STARRED RESTAURANT IN SANT’AGATA SUI DUE GOLFI, THE ENTREPRENEURIAL AND FAMILY SAGA OF THE IACCARINO “DYNASTY” FROM THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY UNTIL TODAY, IN THE FIELDS OF HOSPITALITY AND CATERING OF EXCELLENCE

15-04-2017
by Riccardo Piroddi The new novel by the Sorrentie writer Raffaele Lauro, “Don Alfonso 1890 - Salvatore Di Giacomo and Sant’Agata sui Due Golfi”, published by GoldenGate Edizioni of Rome, coming out at the end of June, celebrates the family and entrepreneurial saga of the Iaccarino “dynasty” from the middle of the nineteenth century to today through four generations operating successfully in the field of [..]

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HIGH CUISINE. OUT OF THE NEW NOVEL BY RAFFAELE LAURO, “DON ALFONSO 1890 - SALVATORE DI GIACOMO AND SANT’AGATA SUI DUE GOLFI”, EMERGES IN AN ORGANIC WAY THE GASTRONOMIC PHILOSOPHY OF MULTI STARRED CHEF DON ALFONSO IACCARINO: THE “MAESTRO” OF MEDITERRANEAN CUISINE. ITALIAN EXCELLENCE AT GLOBAL LEVEL

10-04-2017
by Vincenzo Califano Out of the new novel by Raffaele Lauro, emerges in an organic, almost didascalic way, the gastronomic philosophy of a Chef from Sant’Agata, Don Alfonso Iaccarino, considered universally one of the “Maestros” of Mediterranean cuisine worldwide. A book, therefore, that should be studied in culinary schools. Like all the previous works of Lauro, the latter also lends itself to different levels of reading: [..]

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LUCIO DALLA AND SORRENTO. A SPECIAL ON RAI ABOUT THE BOND OF DALLA WITH SORRENTO AND THE “A RAGAMUFFIN, A CLOWN” SONG BY RAFFAELE LAURO, DEDICATED BY THE SORRENTINE WRITER TO THE GREAT ARTIST FROM BOLOGNA

31-03-2017
On Wednesday, 5th Aril, a team from Rai will be filming in Sorrento for the whole day along with writer Raffaele Lauro (www.raffaelelauro.it), in preparation for a TV special on the bond of Dalla with Sorrento and the “A ragamuffin, a clown” song (www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU8t2kTNDPE), dedicated by the Sorrentine writer to the great artist from Bologna on the 5th anniversary of his passing (1st March 2012/1st March 2017). The filming [..]

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HAUTE CUISINE. “DON ALFONSO 1890” IN SANT’AGATA SUI DUE GOLFI, THE FIRST RESTAURANT IN ITALY AND THE FIFTH RESTAURANT IN THE WORLD PREFERRED BY THE CLIENTS. THE EPIC OF THE IACCARINO DYNASTY AND OF DON ALFONSO IN THE NEW BIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL BY RAFFAELE LAURO TO BE PUBLISHED IN JUNE 2017.

23-03-2017
On the day when the national and international media and press report the news that the “Don Alfonso 1890” restaurant of Sant’Agata sui Due Golfi ranks first in the national ranking and fifth worldwide among restaurants offering fine cuisine chosen by customers, writer Raffaele Lauro announces that after an intense year he had accomplished and licensed his new narrative, literary and gastronomic work entitled “Don [..]

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EARTHQUAKE IN CENTRAL ITALY. WRITER RAFFAELE LAURO WRITES A BALLAD OF SOLIDARITY FOR THE REBIRTH OF MARCHE, UMBRIA AND ABRUZZO, INSPIRED BY THE POPULAR LEGEND FROM ANCONA. A BALLAD OF MITÌ

22-03-2017
Required insistently by his Marche friends to write words of solidarity for the earthquake victims in central Italy and words of hope for the rebirth of Marche, Umbria and Abruzzo, writer Raffaele Lauro published this morning on his website (www.raffaelelauro.it ) the lyrics of a ballad entitled “A Ballad of Mitì”, the music for which will be arranged by the Maestros from Macerata, Giuliano Cardella and Paolo Della [..]

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LUCIO DALLA, THE CELEBRATION OF THE TWINNING BETWEEN SORRENTO AND SAN MARTINO VALLE CAUDINA. FROM THE SEA OF SORRENTO TO THE MOUNTAINS OF SAN MARTINO VALLE CAUDINA.

07-03-2017
Two days marked by emotions, memories and anecdotes about one of the most important and innovative Italian singer-songwriters, Lucio Dalla, inextricably tied to the coastal town, which inspired his “Caruso” written in July 1986, and to the town of Irpinia where that song, destined to become one of the most frequently sung compositions in the world, was performed for the first time on August 17 of that year as part of the “San [..]

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DALLA. THE TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS AT THE FAUNO NOTTE CLUB IN SORRENTO, CROWDED TO THE LAST PLACE, OF THE “A RAGAMUFFIN, A CLOWN” SONG DEDICATED BY THE SORRENTINE WRITER RAFFAELE LAURO TO LUCIO DALLA, IN A SUPERB PERFORMANCE BY FRANCESCA MARESCA, CONCLUDED THE EMOTIONAL AND INTENSE ‘TWO-DAY’ DALLIAN EVENT BETWEEN SORRENTO AND SAN MARTINO VALLE CAUDINA

06-03-2017
The triumphant success in Sorrento at the Fauno Notte Club of Maurizio Mastellone, crowded to the last place, of the “A ragamuffin, a clown” song (R.Lauro, G. Cardella, P. Della Mora, A. Lucerna), dedicated by the Sorrentine writer Raffaele Lauro to Lucio Dalla, in the superb and passionate performance of Francesca Maresca and with the musical arrangement of Maestro Luigi Belati, concluded the emotional and intense [..]

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