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Pierluigi Albertini - Miria Burani - Maria Giovanna Trenti
IL FRUTTO DEL PARADISO
STORIA E CULTURA DELLA CILIEGIA
DI VIGNOLA

240 pages - more than 400 colour and b/w illustrations - documents of the time and unpublished photographs - art paper - colour cover and case - format cm 22x30 - printed 1996
Italian text

ISBN: 88-85335-17-9
978-88-85335-17-2
(THE FRUIT OF PARADISE
history and culture of Vignola cherries)

"Anyone who has passed, at least once in his life, through the streets of Vignola, during the month of April, cannot surely forget the blossoming of cherry trees, those little fragile petals which transform the country completely, giving it a "paradisiac" aspect.

… It is also a recognition to everyone who has contributed to the making of its epic. A history more than one century long, involving thousands of people; however, up to now, it has remained isolated within technical studies, section analysis, reports written by experts for experts, unknown, therefore, to the general public."

Vignola and its cherries have lived side by side through last century; the history of the town identifies, from the middle of 1800, with the growth of the cherries production in the Panaro Valley.
Nonetheless, among cultural publications about Vignola there was no book on cherries.
The authors have recreated a sort of historical compendium about Vignola during last century, about people who have contributed to the economic boom of the Panaro Valley, and their brilliance in generating, besides the agronomic event, a series of industrial and technological activities which still represents the most important part of the economy of the region.

In appendix, there is a nice anecdotal and encyclopaedic dictionary on cherries (illustrated by Maria Claudia Di Genova) for the ones who are not familiar with the language of cherries or want to know curiosities and secrets.

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