You can read book free by scratching it by the friend, you can read on a digital device, you can read rubbing pages, drawing notes and maps around the words that we like, that we do not understand, that we would like make ours. Then, there are those who buy books just to smell the paper. Everyone reads for a reason. Woody Allen, for example, reads in self-defense.
And in Naples? In the city we read to bring the soul to another place or to explore and learn more about the place where we live. Thus are born novels set in the various neighborhoods, funny guides, stories about the legends of churches, paintings and statues of the old town.

But where can you find old and new books at a good price? In Naples there is a unique character. Former clerk of sacred articles unemployed, he turns into a bookseller with a stall in Spaccanapoli. He became Lello Feltrinelli thanks to his friend: a bit ‘to tease him in the Neapolitan way and a little’ to wish him to do a lot of business, he gave him as a surname (alias) that of a famous Italian brand of publishers. His mobile bookcase (in the evening he dismantles it) is now a fixed appointment for those who walk in the heart of the city. Lello has become famous: he has lent his face to the cinema and has a Fb page with many followers. “What do you think good about today?”, customers ask him. And Lello indicates the last arrivals. His books come from private collections and therefore they are of all kinds. History, art, philosophy, novels, essays. In short, just have the good eye and the passionate reader takes home a treasure with a few pennies.

Tonia Limatola

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