{"id":3571,"date":"2025-11-26T09:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T09:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneandietvm.com\/en\/?p=3571"},"modified":"2025-11-26T12:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T12:00:50","slug":"guido-giannini-is-anarchy-the-secret-to-longevity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneandietvm.com\/en\/guido-giannini-is-anarchy-the-secret-to-longevity\/","title":{"rendered":"Guido Giannini <br>Is Anarchy the Secret to Longevity?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"E se il segreto della longevit\u00e0 fosse l\u2019anarchia? Intervista a Guido Giannini\" width=\"1104\" height=\"621\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/50f_WVSzBQ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Guido Giannini was born in 1930. He is an internationally renowned photographer. His life story, set in Naples, spans almost a century. He lived through the difficult years of World War II, when people had to get by procuring smuggled oil and bread. He remembers the Quattro Giornate of Naples in the Vomero district, and the many different jobs he held \u2014 luthier, employee in a pawn loan agency, night watchman, toymaker \u2014 until his encounter with photography, which happened almost by chance, when his uncle brought him an Agfa folding camera from America. But it was several years later that he gained recognition, when Mario Pannunzio bought ten of his photographs to publish them in the weekly magazine <em>Il Mondo<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He describes himself as a \u201cthief of images\u201d because he has always loved photographing life \u2014 the people he met by chance on the streets during his daily wanderings. His vintage photographs are strictly analogic documents, never larger than 18 x 24 cm, because he printed them at home in the darkroom he set up on the kitchen table at night, after his wife and daughter had gone to bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout his childhood and until the late 1950s, he lived in Vomero, in Villa Belvedere, in the house of his grandfather Diego Giannini, who had been a well-known tenor and the most beloved performer of Libero Bovio\u2019s songs. Because of his roots, he calls himself an \u201coriginal piede di broccolo\u201d (a native of Vomero) and recalls how, as a child, he would go with the farmers\u2019 children into the countryside along Via Cilea to steal plums, cherries, and broad beans, depending on the season. In the autumn months, he would collect the acorns that fell from the great oaks of Villa Belvedere to sell them to pig farmers in Camaldoli and earn twelve soldi to spend on movie tickets at the Olimpia cinema.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He vividly remembers when Neapolitan families used to make lard and sun-dried tomato paste at home. His <em>madeleine<\/em> is polenta with milk, which his mother \u2014 born in Cattaro and raised in Zara \u2014 used to prepare for him. His favorite dish is sausages with <em>friarielli<\/em> (broccoli rabe). He is a convinced carnivore, loves tripe and cheese, adores sugar, and has a sweet tooth for desserts, especially <em>cassatine<\/em> and <em>cannoli<\/em>, yet his blood tests are perfect. He doesn\u2019t drink wine \u2014 his first glass was to please the rom of Scampia, whom he photographed in 1979 during a wedding celebration. As for coffee, he only appreciates its aroma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anarchism has been his political philosophy, leading him to meet comrades such as Armando Borghi, president of the Unione Sindacale Italiana and director of <em>Umanit\u00e0 Nova<\/em>, Piero Valpreda, and Emanuele Visone. Together with Gigi Fedele, he re-established the anarchist group <em>Napoli 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The secret to his longevity, he says, is walking a lot, eating little, and perhaps practicing a bit of anarchy \u2014 even at the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interview by: Helga Sanit\u00e0 <br>Thanks to Zelda Giannini and Crescenzo Puca<br>Video by: Emilio Miranda<br>Video Editing by: Emilio Miranda<br>Document by: Helga Sanit\u00e0<br>Subtitle ita\/eng by: <br>Translation by: Helga Sanit\u00e0<br>MedEatResarch \u2013 Center of Social Research on the Mediterranean Diet of the University of Naples Suor Orsola Benincasa, head by Marino Niola and Elisabetta Moro<br>Realized: 05\/11\/2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guido Giannini was born in 1930. He is an internationally renowned photographer. His life story, set in Naples, spans almost a century. He lived through the difficult years of World War II, when people had to get by procuring smuggled oil and bread. 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