Mundunur: A Mountain Village Under the Spell of South Italy

Montenero Val Cocchiara is usually referred to simply as Montenero, or Mundunur in the local dialect. It is a typical mountain village on the border of Italy's Abruzzo and Molise regions, but Montenero is more than that. Certainly the village and its people retain unique traditions and character traits because of its relative seclusion. At the same time—as fully revealed in this book—its history was tinted by contacts with numerous powerful groups over many centuries. Since Naples was the p...