GLI SCARIOLANTI CENTESI
Stella Arcuri
Rebecca Carluccio
GLI
SCARIOLANTI
WERE
«WHEELBARROW-MEN» WHO
WORKED IN OUR REGION IN
THE 16TH AND 20TH CENTURY
TO DRAIN THE TERRITORIES
AROUND THE RIVERS
THE LAST OF THEM WORKED
UNTIL THE 1940s. THEY WERE
CALLED UP AT THE BEGINNING
OF THE WEEK: AT MIDNIGHT
ON SUNDAY A HORN WAS
PLAYED AND EVERYONE HAD
TO HURRY UP TO GET THE JOB.
LATECOMERS WERE REFUSED
EVERY SCARIOLANTE HAD HIS
OWN
«CARRIOLA/WHEELBARROW».
IT WAS AN ESSENTIAL OBJECT
FOR THEIR JOB, AS IMPORTANT
AS THEIR ARMS
«Gli scariolanti» worked in
very bad conditions. They
have built barriers along
rivers, they have dug canals
and they have reclaimed
marshes with their
wheelbarrows
THE
SCARIOLANTI
SONG
A mezzanotte in punto
si sente un gran rumor:
sono gli scariolanti
lelill-lerà
che vengono al lavor.
Volta e rivolta
e torna a rivoltar;
noi siam gli scariolanti
che vanno a lavorar.
A mezzanotte in punto
si sente una tromba a sonar:
sono gli scariolanti
lelill-lerà
che vanno a lavorar.
Volta e rivolta ecc.
Gli scariolanti belli
son tutti ingannator,
che j’ha ingannà la bionda
lelill-lerà
per un bacin d’amor.
Volta e rivolta ecc.