The cycle of the seasons, crops, food, the environment in which our forefathers lived and the transformations it underwent before arriving to the present day, are some of the themes investigated and recounted in the book by Gianni Alex Mazzolari and Francesca Rossi.
Beautiful photographs of today, interspersed with some historical photos and short writings, poetically - and because it is poetic, also somewhat provocative - narrate at least one hundred years of our history and intelligently portray the evolution that has taken place, bearing witness to social and environmental changes.
It is a book that, at first, makes you look at it for the beautiful pictures it contains, then you get to the last page in no time. There you realise that the book is pervaded by a very precise narrative logic, and then you go back to the beginning and look at it with different eyes, reflect, interpret, understand, comment with your neighbour.
It is like a poetic composition: it gives different sensations every time you look at it and gives each reader the opportunity to become a poet himself, attributing his own personal interpretation to it.
The authors have given us one of their own, singular and modern, involving. All that remains for us, reading the book, is to, as Foscolo put it, wander with our thoughts in the footsteps that take us far back in time and thank those who have lived in this beautiful but very tiring land of ours before us, giving us an environment that, whatever the season, looks like a postcard.
