Stories of Paraná - Dreams Rossi

Stories of Paraná - Dreams Rossi

Rossi's Dreams
Valêncio Xavier

Giovanni Rossi was the only guy that before the time, saw the Paraná in the twentieth century. A Paraná very different from today, the end of this century: the crisis in Brazil as a whole, with its inflation shock proof.
Veterinary doctor, agronomist, anarchist activist, born in Italy, Rossi was the creator of so little studied Cologne Cecilia anarchist community located in 1890, in Paraná, by Italian immigrants.
Colony Cecilia say so many stupid things like that out Dom Pedro II who had donated the land for the anarchist practice, among other things, the end of the monarchy. Rossi denies himself: the land, 18 km south of Palm, "with 10^km2 of fields and woods bought at the price of 15 pounds per hectare payable in installments".
The Colony Cecilia, who gets to have about 200 inhabitants, is extinguished in 1893. Tm been several explanations of your order: financial difficulties, government harassment by settlers have joined the Federalist Revolution.
Or explanations as beasts like that, scandalized by free love is practiced, families fled before them to draw their virginal little daughter-paigns.
But the explanation is right Rossi himself giver: "our little anarchic world was very small and therefore very poor to ensure white bread, a bottle of wine, the entrance to the theater, a soft bed, a companion for love.
Contrary to the rhetoric of poets, roses prefer slavery to freedom of thorns. "
With the dispersion of Cologne Cecilia Rossi rides a sweatshop of beverages in Curitiba.
Fails and goes to Santa Catarina to work in your profession.
In 1907 he returned to Italy, where he died in 1943.
In 1895, he wrote "The Paraná in the Twentieth Century," a book that makes a science fiction novel, "Overview of Drunk Even Told by him." In the novel, a seance, the spirit of Dr. Grillo (medical Palmeiras) reports that in 1950, the Paraná lives great progress under the anarchist regime.
Has 20 million inhabitants, four fifths of them immigrants.
Their rail lines cover the entire state and reach the Pacific. The ecology is preserved. The center is the city of progress Elettropoli, rising amid the 7 Falls National Park, which have not been destroyed.
Here's an excerpt of this book unheard of Giovanni Rossi translated by me:
"Elettropoli, fabulous city of 500 000 inhabitants, which rises near the Seven Falls, is not only famous for the thousands of turbines submerged bank to bank of the river to feed huge battery of thousands and thousands of dynamos energy suppliers and electricity throughout Paraná ... is world-famous for its electrotechnical laboratories and their factories produce all material ... the lighting, the telephone network and phonographic equipment ... improved machinery, industrial multiplies the results by reducing the labor of workers. new discoveries .. like color transmission of moving images ... Elettropoli is the sacred temple of science forefront of all future progress. "
Too bad it does not fulfill the dreams of Giovanni Rossi.

Valêncio Xavier is a writer and historian.


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.