“The Last Game” written by journalist Gaetano Perricone, is the book that will be presented on Friday, Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. at Villa Butera (Bagheria), as part of the literary review ‘Tramonti di parole,’ promoted by the Sicilian Parliamentary Press in collaboration with the Preatoni family’s Domina hotel group, Innovation Island and Restart Palermo.
In dialogue with the author will be Roberto Leone, deputy secretary of the Assostampa. Giusy Rinaldi, wife of the book’s protagonist, will bring her testimony, while her son, Christian Fici, will read excerpts.
Admission is free.
The event has the patronage of the Sicilian Regional Assembly, the Presidency of the Sicilian Region, the Metropolitan City of Palermo and the Municipality of Bagheria.
The following events:
– on Sept. 27 “La Notte dell’Antimafia” by journalist Lucio Luca;
– on Oct. 09 “The Prophecy of CL” by journalist Marco Ascione;
– on Oct. 18, Prof. Gianni Puglisi will give a lecture on the ’63 group that animated intellectual debate in Italy in the mid-1960s by meeting in the Zagarella Hotel.

Abstract: “Gaetano, I want you to write my story!” So asked the author, life’s friend, the protagonist of this true story of pain and smiles, of death and life, Giorgio Fici, shortly before cancer killed him on the evening of June 1, 2023. It was the end of ten months of a very hard and unequal struggle: the last game of a giant. This is a choral book, a collection of unfiltered testimonies with a specific goal: to tell the dramatic battle for life of a man who fought like a lion, even though he knew he would lose it.
Gaetano Perricone, 62, from Palermo, is a professional journalist. His career includes fifteen years working in the editorial office of the historic daily “L’Ora” in Palermo, then three years at the daily “Il Mediterraneo,” then a brief stint at “Oggi Sicilia,” also in the Sicilian capital, before moving to the foothills of Mount Etna where from 1998 and for eighteen years he was head of the Press Office of the Park Authority in Nicolosi. He contributed to the creation of the candidacy dossier that led to Etna’s inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List on June 21, 2013. Today, having concluded her working career, she is responsible for the blog www.ilvulcanico.it. With Giuseppe Maimone Editore, he published in 2004 La mia Etna. Dialogue with the Muntagna.