By Valerio Viale

As Carlo Levi himself declared, in reference to the origins of his well-known memoir's title, Christ Stopped at Eboli (1945): "The title of the book comes from an expression by the people of 'Gagliano' who say of themselves, 'Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli' which means, in effect, that they feel they have been bypassed by Christianity, by morality, by history itself - that they have somehow been excluded from the full human experience." Despite several elements, including the name of the place "Gagliano", are mere products of fiction, Levi perfectly captured how those people felt.

However, like every great novelist, or any other artist, their genius resides in being able to transcend both geographical and time boundaries. Therefore, with no big stretch of imagination, I can say here that, Enzo Ricciardelli's family must have felt in the same way as the people from "Gagliano' in the aftermath of WWII, when it took a courageous leap into the unknown and emigrated from Eboli to Southern California in the 1970s, in pursuit of the American dream. Today, realtor Enzo Ricciardelli has accomplished that dream and gives himself one hundred percent to match everybody with their dream house in the greater Los Angeles area.

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano