La tratta dei fanciulli

The work portrays the trafficking of children from a poor Calabrian village to outside markets, combining evocative local scenes with testimonies and moral argument. Through episodic narratives of kidnapped youngsters and the suffering of their families, the author interweaves reportage, social analysis, and a direct appeal to public conscience and political responsibility. Prefatory remarks register frustration at official indifference even as debates and commissions circulate, while the text alternates vivid landscapes and domestic tragedy with calls for reform and charity, aiming to expose systemic causes and to rouse readers to practical intervention.