Great party for the presentation of 'Divinae Follie', the new book by Lucio Palazzo

Guests include Checco Zalone, Bruno Vespa, Alberto Matano and Nunzia De Girolamo

Big party yesterday at Roody Studios in Rome for the presentation of 'Divinae Follie - History of the generation that danced in the Nineties', the new book by Lucio Palazzo, available in bookstores and online stores. The event was moderated by Alberto Matano and Nunzia De Girolamo, with the special participation of Titti and Leo Mastrogiacomo, the family protagonist of the story. Among the guests and friends present were also Alessandro Greco, Bruno Vespa, Checco Zalone, Marco Carrara, Federica De Denaro, Giovanni Filippetto and many others. The frenetic beat of an era , the epic of a family and a generation that, between successes and failures, make the night their kingdom . In the background, concerts by emerging artists such as Ligabue, Fiorello, Jovanotti, the last young people without cell phones, without internet and without social networks. The young people of the 90s were the last to still live and grow with the habit of building relationships in real life and not virtual. Physical places had a fundamental role. Between the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s, the ritual of being together to listen to music and dance takes a leap in quality: the first big discos arrive in Italy, based on the American and English experience . The man who selects the music is physically placed at the center of the scene, clubs like Cocoricò, Pascià and others are born on the Riviera Romagnola that host complex performances, with the use of costumes and with an often theatrical setting. The DJ becomes a rock star, the night changes liturgies becoming a sort of secular mass, which purifies those who participate from the waste of real life. In the South there is the 'Divinae Follie', of the Mastrogiacomo family, which is not born in Romagna but in Bisceglie, in a Puglia not accustomed to that show, in a territory that is not the one of today. 'Divinae Follie - Storia della generazione che ballava negli anni Novanta' is the first novel set in one of those discos and which talks about that generation, the kids who saw the first house music of Frankie Knuckles arrive from Chicago, and who witnessed the explosion of names like Fiorello and Jovanotti.