A Moving Human Portrait of Joseph, Mary and Jesus.

by Patrizia Riello Pera, Padua, ITALY

Pasquale Festa Campanile’s Per amore, solo per amore (For Love, for Love Alone), winner of the 1984 Premio Campiello, is one of those rare books that remain in the heart: a fresco capable of stripping biblical figures of the distance of sacredness and restoring them to the fragile greatness of the human condition. Joseph, Mary, and the little Jesus do not appear as motionless icons, but as living beings, crossed by doubt, desire, fear, and tenderness. Joseph, an imperfect and profoundly earthly carpenter, loves Mary even when the mystery of her pregnancy wounds him and fills him with questions. And it is precisely within that doubt, never entirely resolved, that the most moving part of the novel is born: the child he cannot fully understand becomes, day after day, the son of his love. Those who have judged this work irreverent have perhaps failed to grasp its highest delicacy. Behind its apparent provocation, Festa Campanile in fact builds a great hymn to devotion, choice, fatherhood, and forgiveness. The descriptions of ancient Palestine flow clear, luminous, almost musical. A novel that seems as light as a stream, yet leaves in the soul the exquisitely sweet weight of eternal things. Https://patriziarielloperalibri.it


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🇮🇹 About Me (Italiano)

Sono Patrizia Riello Pera, scrittrice, illustratrice e blogger indipendente.
Ho collaborato con diversi editori e oggi mi dedico al self-publishing, unendo passione per la narrativa, la poesia e l’arte visiva.
Partecipo a fiere internazionali del libro e ho ricevuto numerosi riconoscimenti, tra cui il Leone d’Oro della Cultura e della Letteratura, il Premio Europeo Oscar Wilde e il Premio d’Arte Internazionale Minerva 2025.
Nel 2024 sono stata proposta per la candidatura al Premio Nobel per la Letteratura.
Attraverso il mio lavoro promuovo la bellezza della parola, dell’immagine e della libertà espressiva.

📚 Scopri di più sul mio sito ufficiale: https://patriziarielloperalibri.it

🇬🇧 About Me (English)

I’m Patrizia Riello Pera, an independent writer, illustrator, and blogger.
After working with several publishing houses, I now focus on self-publishing, combining a passion for fiction, poetry, and visual arts.
I’ve taken part in international book fairs and received major awards such as the Golden Lion for Culture and Literature, the European Oscar Wilde Award, and the Minerva International Art Prize 2025.
In 2024 I was proposed for nomination to the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Through my art and writing, I aim to celebrate words, images, and the freedom of artistic expression.

📚 Visit my official website: https://patriziarielloperalibri.it

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