The "pagan" origins of the Bolognese festival of porchetta

Lorena Bianconi is the author of the booklet "At the origins of the Bolognese Porchetta festival" (Clueb, 2005), the celebratory occasion of August 24 which characterized the Bolognese summers for at least 500 years. The author questions the supposed medieval origins of the festival and through an anthropological reading of its rituality, the comparison with ancient pre-Christian cults and analyzing the ritual use of the pig in the ancient world, she concludes that it could be the relic of ancient rituals. pre-Christian connected with seasonal change.