Desire to know the history of our country natio nearly is radicato in we; it grows together to our age and ravviva every time that we observe an old house, an angle of the historical center, a hairdo of old person or hears a dialectal expression or an ancient song. And here, even if the lived one is changing face quickly, does not lack the testimonies: pack-saddles to think next to the architectonic models survivors of the medioevale village, next to the cross in stone of the communal Villa, next to the diroccato castle of Monteleone, the portale cinquecentesco of the former church of S.Nicola or next to the seicentesco oratory of the Madonna of the Arc.

I have read, some year makes, the notes on the history of I fish Sannita of the teaching mourning Nicholas D' Andrea. The author of those pregevoli pages, from which traspare great attachment and affection for its country, in the premise he augurs himself that others can widen and deepen its incomplete searches. He is how much finally has happened to work of the beloved friend prof. Mario D' Augustin who has dedicated five entire years to the search and to the ricucitura of the news on I fish (1). The competence, the seriousness and the objectivity characterize the drawing up of the text that offers yes to the stimulus to ulterior widenings and searches but that it is a circostanziato historical test let alone puntigliosamente and wide documented.

Pesco Sannita, january 1981

GIUSEPPE MANOCCHIO