Sebbeto

Impetuous and impetuous like Sepeithos—from the Greek etymology of the mythical river of Naples—this text was written in just a few months, and then performed, with various adaptations, at the Teatro Sancarluccio and in various Neapolitan hypogea. "When I heard, in one of my dreams, the subterranean flow of the river of Naples for the first time," says Mimmo Grasso, "it became for me the guilty conscience and the civic virtues of my city. These virtues have as their Arcanum, in my imagination, the 'awaited hero' Frederick II, who gave Europe a sense of statehood and around whose figure, if re-imagined, internalized, and shared, my city could become, as it once was, a polis with a politèia."