La trama degli incontri

[Autom. eng. transl.] "He was called Jesus, Jesus the Nazarene, and he was crucified, I don't know for what crime. Ponzio, do you remember that man? " Pontius Pilate frowned and put his hand to his forehead like someone looking for something in his memory. Then, after a few moments of silence, he murmured: "Jesus? Jesus the Nazarene? No, I don't remember. " In the Phlegraean Fields, where they stay to restore body and spirit, an old and ailmented Pilate recalls, together with his friend Elio Lama, his past in Judea, turbulent parentheses of an honored career. When the conversation turns to the Nazarene who died on the cross, Pilate reveals an unsettling forgetfulness: he has no memory of him. The friend, on the contrary, remembers with nostalgia that land and, in particular, a beautiful Jewish dancer, who suddenly disappeared to follow the disciples of a young miracle worker. Silvano Petrosino writes a note of reading to the story, interpreting it as a very happy narrative occasion that perfectly illustrates the art of encounter.