Raffaele Lauro

Raffaele Lauro (born February 10, 1944, Sorrento) is an Italian politician, member of the Senate of Italy,[1] prefect and a private adviser for istitutional relations and communication.

Biography

Raffaele Lauro was born in Sorrento, from Luigi and Angela Aiello, after the elder brothers Luigi and Aniello and before the younger one Giuseppe. In his youth, to provide studies, he worked as a receptionist in hotels in the Sorrento Peninsula. He attended high school in Sorrento, at the Sant'Anna Institute, graduating with honors and reporting of the Commission.

After high school, he continued his studies at the University of Naples "Federico II". At the University of Naples he got three degrees: in Political Science, cum laude, with a thesis on the history of Afro-Asian countries': "Political and economic reflections of the Vietnam War"; in Law, cum laude, with a thesis in International Law, "International Law and German post-Kantian philosophy"and later in Economics, cum laude, with a degree in Theory and Techniques of Trading Market "The mutual funds: Perspectives on the Italian market."

In 1968 he won a scholarship at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and during the next four years, he first attended courses at the Diplomatic Institute at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then he studied foreign policy, in Paris, at the Documentation Française.

Since 1971, he was a professor of History and Philosophy in high schools.

For many years, he has taught Law of Mass Communications at the Faculty of Political Sciences at LUISS University in Rome.

In Rome, at the Institute of Journalism and Audiovisual Techniques, he also got a degree in Journalism, cum laude and became a journalist, member of the Order of Journalists of Lazio and Molise. He was then director of the scientific magazine "Post and Telecommunications" published by the Foundation U. Bordoni and has worked as commentator of new information technologies, for "Il Tempo"[2] in Rome and "Il Mattino"[3] in Naples. For "RadiocorriereTV", he has been a columnist about citizens and institutions.

At the New University of Cinema and Television in Rome, he graduated in Directing Film, with Masters Giuseppe De Sanctis, Carlo Lizzani and Florestano Vancini.

Administrative and institutional activities

The administrative-institutional activities of Raffaele Lauro began in Sorrento in 1980. Pupil of politician Francesco Compagna, he was elected Councillor of Sorrento, holding the positions of Deputy Mayor,[4] Councillor for Finance, Personnel and Culture. During the period in which he took the latter department, he organized the Public Library of Sorrento and established a theater school, with director Lorenzo Ferrero di Roccaferrera and a theatrical review, with actor Bruno Cirino Pomicino.

He left Sorrento in 1984 and he moved to Rome where he was chief of the secretariat of the Post and Telecommunications Ministry, of the Finance Ministry and of the Interior Ministry, he was Councillor of the national Audit Office then head Prefect. He has had a sensitive assignment at the Interior Ministry (Chief of Cabinet, Director of Border Regions and Inspector General of Administration).[5] In October 2003 he was appointed Councillor to the Minister of Government Program Implementation at the Office of the Prime Minister. From May 2005 to May 2006 he was Chief of cabinet of the Production Activities Ministry. From June 2006 until February 2008 he was Special Government Commissioner for the Coordination of Anti-racket and Anti-usury Initiatives and Chairman of the Solidarity Commission for the victims of extortion and usury. In the general elections of 2008 he was elected senator for the "People of Freedom" party, in the district of Campania. He was appointed member of the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry into the Mafia and other criminal organizations, including foreign ones, member of the parliamentary committee for the general guidance and supervision of broadcasting services, the First Committee (Constitutional Affairs), until April 2012 and then member of the Sixth Committee (Finance and Treasury). He was also Political Advisor to the security of the Minister of Economic Development, the Hon. Claudio Scajola.[6]

On January 21, 2013, he left the PDL Group of the Senate of the Republic to join the Misto Group.[7]

On December 9, 2014, he has been appointed as a member of the board of the Fondazione Link Campus University and member of the board of the University.

Legislative Activities (XVI Legislature)

http://leg16.senato.it/leg/16/BGT/Schede_v3/Attsen/00025248.htm

The battle against gambling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLVbFCIQbuM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25A44ZSZ2eE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoyIJXxV_Rk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIGj1U3Z7zQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nom8vvl-e98

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMtP-el-u9k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2EKCtQq748

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSosSDUooas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhh3nnD6RQw

Works

Raffaele Lauro is also a freelance journalist, essayist, screenwriter, author, director, librettist and writer.

Among his most important essays include:



Among the works of fiction, also written under the pseudonym Ralph Lorbeer:


This historical novel deals with the terrible tragedy suffered by people of Sorrento, Massa Lubrense and Piano, on the 13th of June, 1558, when the Sorrento Peninsula, for a whole day, was horribly looted, burnt, desecrated and partially destroyed by the Turks of Admiral Piyale Paşa. Thousands of dead, decapitated and disemboweled by scimitars. More than 2000 people from Massa Lubrense and Sorrento were dragged as hostage to Istanbul. The historical events are interwoven with the human story, adventurous and romantic, of the young protagonist, Marino Correale, which is the result of narrative invention, who converts to Islam and, after a brilliant career at the court of the Sultan of Istanbul, was taken prisoner, by Christians, during the battle of Lepanto (1571) and then taken to trial, in Madrid, by the Spanish Inquisition. After twenty years of imprisonment, he converted to Christianity, came back to Sorrento, in anonymity, and retired in a convent until his death (1600). This novel is a huge metaphor for the clash between Christianity and Islam, when religions are manipulated by politics for purposes of wealth and power. The book’s cover,[11] designed by Teresa Biagioli, tells, visually, through its various components, the Sorrento’s immense tragedy, during the Turkish looting of June 13, 1558. It’s the dawn of a day, in the second half of the sixteenth century. Sorrento is lying like a prey, helpless and defenseless, ready to be snatched, between Marina di Capo Cervo (Marina Piccola), owned by Correale, along with the valley behind (Valley of the Mills), intended for trade by sea, and the Marina of Porto (Marina Grande), for the shelter of the fishermen's boats. The threat represented by the Ottoman scimitar, with the flag of the Sultan of Istanbul, Suleiman the Magnificent, is looming. The projection of the shadows of both scimitar and flag, in the heart of the city, increases the pathos and the sense of danger. The coat of arms, at the bottom, which turns to blood red background, composing the fatal date, symbolizes the bloody denouement of the day, with thousands of victims, massacred or taken hostage, then dragged in chains on the Turkish galleys. Television interview on the novel.[12] The presentation of the novel, the national premiere, will take place Thursday, November 21, 2013, at 17.30, in the Senate of the Republic, at the Chapter Hall of the Cloister of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Piazza della Minerva, 38. Massimo Milone, Director of Rai Vatican, will moderate. Speakers: Stefano Lucchini, Director of ENI International Relations, Alessandro Preziosi, actor and theater director, Bruno Astorre, Senator of the Republic, Vincenzo Scotti, Chairman of Link Campus University and H. E. Bishop Vincenzo Paglia, Chairman of the Pontifical Council for the Family. H. E. Annamaria Cancellieri, Minister of Justice, will conclude.



In this novel, which will be published in 2015, Lauro describes the intellectual and poetic biography of singer-songwriter from Bologna, Lucio Dalla, through its links with Sorrento, which lasted fifty years and led to the birth of the masterpiece song "Caruso", composed, in Sorrento, in the summer of 1985.[13]

The mayor of Sorrento, Giuseppe Cuomo, who proposed the honorary citizenship of Sorrento to Lucio Dalla; the former mayor, Marco Fiorentino, who instituted the "Premio Caruso" and assigned it to the Bolognese singer-songwriter , in the second edition of 2003; the former mayor Ferdinand Pinto, who awarded him with honorary citizenship, in a solemn session of the City Council, in 1997, in the Cloister of St. Francis; the former mayor, Antonino Cuomo, president of the Associazione Studi Storici Sorrentini; the writer Giuliana Gargiulo, a friend of the artist; Professor Antonino Siniscalchi, who interviewed him in 1990 on his album "Cambio" and, finally, the lawyer Eugenio D'Andrea, who became his attorney, will present, in Sorrento, on the eve of Lucio Dalla’s third anniversary of death, in national premiere, the new novel by Raffaele Lauro, "Caruso The Song - Lucio Dalla e Sorrento." The event, under the auspices of the City Council, will be held Saturday, February 28, 2015, at 5.00 p.m., at the Council Chamber of the Sorrento’s Town Hall. The presentation will be moderated by journalist Antonino Pane and introduced by the councilor for Culture, Maria Teresa De Angelis. Lauro’s new novel is unprecedented, with unprecedented revelations and important evidence, than other biographies of Dalla. Reconstructs the inner world, the poetic and, in particular, the bond which linked the singer with Sorrento for almost fifty years, city which he called "true corner of my soul" and inspiration for the masterpiece "Caruso", known throughout the world. The novel is set in the most loved places by Dalla (Piazza Tasso, Marina Piccola, Marina Grande) and is crowded by his old friends (among others, Franco, Peppino and Tanino Jannuzzi, Giovanni Russo, Angelo Leonelli, Pasquale Ruocco). Raffaele Lauro began writing the third novel of his Sorrento’s trilogy, dedicated to Vico Equense, through a romantic love story, entitled "DanceandLove - Le Axidie Marina d'Aequa", after "Sorrento The Romance", dedicated to Massa Lubrense and Sorrento, and “Caruso The Song - Lucio Dalla e Sorrento", dedicated to Sorrento, Sorrento, Meta and Piano.

RaiNews24: Raffaele Lauro talks about Sorrento's Tribute to Lucio Dalla and of his new novel "CARUSO THE SONG - LUCIO DALLA AND SORRENTO"[14]

Television interviews on the novel "CARUSO THE SONG - LUCIO DALLA AND SORRENTO"[15][16]

TG1 RAI: Raffaele Lauro talks about Sorrento's Tribute to Lucio Dalla and of his new novel "CARUSO THE SONG - LUCIO DALLA AND SORRENTO[17]

Sorrento's Tribute to Lucio Dalla (February 28, 2015): Raffaele Lauro's final speech[18]

Sorrento's Tribute to Lucio Dalla first photo gallery, Town Hall (February 28, 2015)[19]

Sorrento's Tribute to Lucio Dalla second photo gallery, Town Hall (February 28, 2015)[20]

Backstage photos of the documentary film "Lucio Dalla and Sorrento - The Places of the Soul", written, directed and performed by Raffaele Lauro[21]

GREAT SUCCESS, EMOTIONS AND APPLAUSES IN THE SENATE FOR "CARUSO THE SONG - LUCIO DALLA AND SORRENTO" BY RAFFAELE LAURO. A great success among the public, emotions and applauses for the presentation, on March, 18th, 2015, of "Caruso The Song - Lucio Dalla and Sorrento" by the Sorrentine Author, Raffaele Lauro, in the Senate at the Palazzo della Minerva. Among the figures present at the event, who celebrated and greatly applauded the Author, were senators, governors, judges, quaestors, chiefs of cabinet, as well as a crowd of friends from Rome and Sorrento. A large picture of Lucio Dalla in the full moon of Li Galli was placed in the Chapter Hall above the speakers stand. Massimo Milone, the Head of RAI Vaticano, introduced the presentation brilliantly, highlighting the fact, that the biographical novel on Dalla is a true novelty in the literature relating to the artist, being rich in entirely new poetic glimpses, enhanced by the special relationship of the artist with the Sorrentine land. Fabrizio d’Esposito, a journalist from Il Fatto Quotidiano, confessed the deep commotion he felt while reading the book, and the excitement of having to talk about many of his childhood friends, also friends of Lucio, whose testimonies delivered to Lauro revealed the extraordinary humanity of the great artist in the relationship with the common people of Sorrento (sailors, fishermen). Franco Massi, Deputy General Secretary of Defence, preferred to illustrate to the attentive audience the human profile of the Author, who despite the institutional offices of high responsibility held in the capital, has never cut off his Sorrentine roots, showing that the man of power can continue to cultivate the feelings, values and sentiments of his origins. The speech of the former Minister Vincenzo Scotti, President of the Link Campus University, was as always of a great cultural value. He emphasized the relationship between musical composition and the environment, which in Sorrento hosted excellent performers, from Wagner to De Curtis or Dalla, and claimed the entire narrative work of Lauro, especially with the Sorrentine Trilogy, which is a credit to the rediscovery of the ancient and recent history of Sorrento, to be passed down to new generations. The conclusions of Angelo Riccardi, Mayor of Manfredonia, had a strong emotional impact, as he said that without the childhood in Manfredonia and without the bond with Sorrento one would not be able to explore the complex personality of Dalla, made also of contradictions and lies, for which the Mystery of Dalla remained largely unresolved. The joyful Roman event was sealed with the words of Giuseppe Cuomo, Mayor of Sorrento, who claimed the credit for Sorrento for having always welcomed Dalla with friendship and hospitality, both as tatterdemalion and as now worldwide artist, and earned the gift of "Caruso", which like "Torna a Surriento", has made the city of Tasso famous in every corner of the earth. Approached by the journalists of TG1, Raffaele Lauro expressed gratitude to all the speakers, to the incisiveness of their words, which honour one of the greatest Italian artists of the postwar period, whose masterpiece "Caruso" is a an Italian stamp worldwide: "I was excited to write this book on Lucio and I get moved every time, while listening to the comments on pages written from the heart, as Lucio Dalla would wish". The complete recording of the event will be published in a few days on the website of the novel (www.carusothesong.com), made available exclusively by the media of the Sorrentine Peninsula and the Amalfi Coast. Further presentations of the book will be held in Castellammare di Stabia, Naples, Pescara and in Sofia, Bulgaria.


By the end of 2015, will be released in bookstores "L’Universo Amore"[22] by Angela Barba, an essay of literary criticism about the works of fiction of Raffaele Lauro, published by GoldenGate Edizioni of Rome, with the cover of designer Teresa Biagioli, which bears a portrait of the writer, painted in Florence in 1990 by the painter Adriana Pincherle, wife of the painter Onofrio Martinelli and sister of the writer Alberto Moravia. The critical analysis of Angela Barba, Professor of Humanities at the Lyceum "Publio Virgilio Marone" in Meta, will include novels (Roma a due piazze, Edizioni CEI, 1987; Metropolitania, Rusconi Editore, 1991; Il sogno di Pedro, Rusconi Editore, 1993; Il progetto, Lancio Editore, 1997; La crociera, Lancio Editore, 1997; La condanna, Lancio Editore, 1997; Mutus, Lancio Editore, 1998; Quel film mai girato Volume I, GoldenGate Edizioni, 2002; Quel film mai girato Volume II, GoldenGate Edizioni, 2003; Cossiga Suite, GoldenGate Edizioni, 2009; Sorrento The Romance, GoldenGate Edizioni, 2013; Caruso The Song - Lucio Dalla e Sorrento, GoldenGate Edizioni, 2015) and the tragedy in two acts, "The Secrets of stars”, an historical thriller, written in the nineties, on the death of Antinous, the young favorite of the Emperor Hadrian. "I am sincerely flattered - Lauro said - for the attention that an intellectual such Angela Barba, is giving to me and to my works, as well for the title she have chosen for the essay".


This novel in the process of writing, dedicated to the extraordinary human and artistic story of the Russian dancer, Violetta Elvin, will appear in the early 2016 to complete "The Sorrentine Trilogy" after the success of "Sorrento The Romance" (2013) and "Caruso The Song - Lucio Dalla and Sorrento" (2015). The Trilogy, an organic work expressed in over 1500 pages, develops the foundations of the ethical, aesthetic, philosophical, religious and spiritual concept of the Author (Faith and History; Music and Poetry; Dance and Love) and proves the deep love expressed by Lauro to his native land. To places of origin, to places of the soul: Sorrento, S. Agnello, Piano, Meta, Massa Lubrense, Capri, Vico Equense and Positano. The trilogy assumes also the task undertook by the Author in the foreword to the golden booklet entitled in a Foscolian way "Sorrento mia", printed on Amalfi paper and donated to friends on the occasion of Christmas in 1977.


And, finally, musical compositions, tragedies and television documentaries:



Honours and Awards

He was appointed, in 1990, 3rd Class Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, and in 1992, 2nd Class Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1992).[25] He also received top honors from governments and foreign countries (Chile, Morocco).

In 2004, in Agrigento, he won the prestigious "Premio Empedocle",[26] in memory of Paolo Borsellino, conferred by the Academy of Mediterranean Studies.

In 2005, the "Premio Personaggio Speciale 2005" by Confartigianato and, in 2006, together with the Maestro Lucio Dalla, the International Prize "Sorrento nel Mondo".[27]

In 2015, in Manfredonia, he received the "International Award for Culture - Re Manfredi" for his merits in the field of culture and defence of the rule of law.[28]


References

  1. ↑ "Scheda di attività - Raffaele Lauro" (in Italian). Senate of the Republic (Italy). Retrieved 7 January 2013.
  2. ↑ http://www.raffaelelauro.it/giornali.html#tempo
  3. ↑ http://www.raffaelelauro.it/giornali.html#mattino
  4. ↑ http://93.63.239.228/archivio/2006/Marzo/30/Roma/30-06-att.pdf
  5. ↑ http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1993/08/12/lauro-lascia-vertici-del-viminale.html
  6. ↑ http://www.italiaoggi.it/giornali/stampa_giornali.asp?id=1656150&codiciTestate=1&accesso=FA
  7. ↑ http://corrieredelmezzogiorno.corriere.it/napoli/notizie/politica/2013/21-gennaio-2013/lauro-pdl-furioso-non-mi-ricandidanoesclusione-strumentale-gansteristica-2113636350228.shtml
  8. ↑ http://www.maggioli.it/pages/rs/Corriere_della_Sera_Ed_Roma_20.04.09.pdf
  9. ↑ http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/News/Cultura/Cossiga-Suite-Raffaele-Lauro-racconta-il-fratello-Nello-maestro-daccoglienza_4005236166.html
  10. ↑ http://www.politicainpenisola.it/2013/06/sorrento/sorrento-the-romance-la-storia-di-unimmane-tragedia-sorrentina-narrata-da-raffaele-lauro/#more-14058
  11. ↑ http://www.politicainpenisola.it/2013/07/sorrento/anteprima-la-copertina-del-nuovo-libro-di-raffaele-lauro-sorrento-the-romance/
  12. ↑ Video on YouTube
  13. ↑
  14. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8TotjhjOTo&feature=youtu.be
  15. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwlb8r6qw4I&feature=youtu.be
  16. ↑ http://www.corsoitalianews.it/raffaele-lauro-omaggia-sorrento-e-lucio-dalla-01032015/
  17. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFqtEpkTWEI&feature=youtu.be
  18. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLEXQGunV-w
  19. ↑ http://www.carusothesong.com/news/99/fotogallery-omaggio-della-citt-di-sorrento-a-lucio-dalla-nel-terzo-anniversario-della-scomparsa-28-02-2015.html
  20. ↑ http://www.carusothesong.com/news/101/omaggio-di-sorrento-a-lucio-dalla-sorrento-palazzo-municipale-sabato-28-febbraio-2015.html
  21. ↑ http://www.carusothesong.com/news/100/foto-del-backstage-del-docufilm-lucio-dalla-e-sorrento-i-luoghi-dellanima-scritto-diretto-e-interpretato-da-raffaele-lauro.html
  22. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUTAscGzUgc
  23. ↑ http://www.carusothesong.com/en/news/108/dance-the-love-a-star-in-vico-equense-the-premire-of-the-cover-of-the-new-novel-by-raffaele-lauro-.html
  24. ↑ http://www.raffaelelauro.it/film/ponti.htm
  25. ↑ http://www.quirinale.it/elementi/Onorificenze.aspx?pag=114&qIdOnorificenza=61&cognome=&nome=&daAnno=1800&aAnno=2012&luogoNascita=&testo=&ordinamento=OCO_ANNO_DECRETO%20DESC,OCO_MESE_DECRETO%20DESC,OCO_GIORNO_DECRETO%20DESC
  26. ↑ http://www.raffaelelauro.it/empedocle.htm
  27. ↑ http://www.adnkronos.com/Archivio/AdnAgenzia/2006/11/22/Cultura/PREMI-AL-PREFETTO-LAURO-E-A-LUCIO-DALLA-IL-SORRENTO-NEL-MONDO_094027.php
  28. ↑ http://www.carusothesong.com/en/news/103/raffaele-lauro-receives-the-international-award-for-culture-re-manfredi-for-his-merits-in-the-field-of-culture-and-defence-of-the-rule-of-law.html

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