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Francesco Jovine

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Francesco Jovine was an Italian writer, journalist, and essayist. Husband of the educator Dina Bertoni and uncle of the poet and writer Augusto Muscella, he is best remembered for the two novels Signora Ava and Le terre del Sacramento.

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The Lands of Sacramento

The novel is set in Molise between 1921 and 1922. It is our South: peasant-bound, archaic, and motionless for centuries. The lands of Sacramento are a fiefdom, left fallow because of a divine curse upheld by the Church, from which the estate had been expropriated by a wealthy family, the Cannavales. Paradoxically, the abandonment of this land places it at the disposal of the peasants. Some, th

Francesco Jovine• Giulio Einaudi