Capurso, May 5, 2009
I read today for the first time Blog Vito Maurogiovanni (http/://vitomaurogiovanni.wordpress.com/2008) un interessantissimo profilo di Vituccio Lonero, concittadino nato a Capurso il 1886 e morto a Bari il 1958.
Il Comune di Bari gli ha dedicato una via centrale nel quartiere San Paolo ma il Comune di Capurso semplicemente lo ignora, pur avendogli dato i natali.
Da quanto ci fa sapere Vito Maurogiovanni, Vituccio Lonero Studia nella Scuola superiore di Commercio di Bari, prima facoltà dell'Ateneo barese. Dopo gli studi emigra in Francia, Germania e Gran Bretagna, dove frequenta l'Università di Nottingham. A Manchester fonda la ditta Saverio Lonero per la vendita dei merletti. In Italia, a Gallarate e Seveso fonda altre due aziende simili. Dopo la prima guerra mondiale, know Senator Antonio De Tullio, President of the Italian Chamber of Commerce - East of Bari Thanks to this relationship Vituccio Lonergan was appointed Director General of the Federation of Commerciani and included in the staff that would lay the foundations of the Fiera del Levante, which was inaugurated in 1930 by the King of Italy with the inaugural speech given just Vito Lonergan. Become
language teacher at the Institute tencico trade (current Vivante) and had among his pupils and also Trident Nicola Vittorio Triggiani, future presidents of the Fiera del Levante, as well as Giuseppe Nardi, economist, professor and associate Nazionale dei Lincei.
criticized the entry into the war in World War II, earning charges of defeatism.
collaboration with Radio Bari to teach English southern Italians under Allied occupation.
After helping to revive the Fiera del Levante in the postwar period, died in 1958, receiving the condolences of Menichella Donato, Governor of the Bank of Italy and Giuseppe Nardi, an economist. Certainly it is a
capursese that gave luster to his hometown and is worthy of our memory, even with the naming of a street or a public work. Pino
Mariani
