«Parody is in art because it is in life. Alongside the infinitely large, there is the infinitely small." (Croce su Scarpetta).
This album celebrates two important families of Neapolitan actors, playwrights and writers, the Scarpettas and the Manginis. Whose parental bond occurred with the marriage between Maria Scarpetta and Mario Mangini, lawyer, journalist and writer, also known as Kokasse. Maria Scarpetta (Naples, 2 June 1891 – Pozzuoli, 31 May 1949) was an Italian playwright and writer, who often used the pseudonym Mascaria, as well as sometimes the name Maria Mangini. Mario Mangini in the thirties, forties and fifties, often paired with Francesco Cipriani Marinelli (they signed as Nelli & Mangini), was among the most fruitful and famous authors of Italian theater magazines. Among the most famous artists for whom he wrote were Totò, Nino Taranto, Mario Riva. He also collaborated on several scripts of this genre with Eduardo De Filippo (who used the pseudonym Tricot) and with Totò. Always paired with Nelli, and together with Pietro Garinei and Sandro Giovannini, he was part of the magazine's Bottega, a cooperative of authors who, under the pseudonym "Geri and Sampietro", produced several successful theater scripts in the 1940s. In the 1950s and 1960s he was also the screenwriter of several films, again by Totò.

With Maria Scarpetta they had a daughter, Giulia, who appears here in some documents. Eugenio Mangini, to whom various poems are dedicated, was Scarpetta's son-in-law, Mario's father. And Bianchina was another daughter of Eugenio Mangini. Those that are handed down here are therefore compositions of occasion, even rarer than others precisely because they are extemporaneous, often thought up and composed in real time. And they are poems where we observe the gentle, light, carefree but also thoughtful and attentive touch to preserve the purest and most sincere feelings, those that arise in the family.



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