Each year, when I read the articles for "VeneziAltrove" I feel the way Mario Luzi expresses all too well in one of his poems: "You revive my expectations" A layman, I am personally amazed ah how automatically one becomes engrossed in the vortex of the diaspora of Venice's cultural heritage in (...)

Out of professional habit, I often find myself analyzing phenomena that gradually attract my attention from an opposite point of view. And it is because of this habit, not because of a snobbish temptation to go against the trend, that I have often asked myself what the other side of the (...)

“Militaire et mari” sings the tenor in the Figlia del Reggimento (Regiment’s Daughter) holding the scene with more “C” sharps than the history of music remembers. And, for years now, it is in that combination of roles that I find myself each time I pick up this Almanac, (Venezialtrove-almanac of the (...)

The idea of Venice The ‘refoundation’ in romantic terms of the idea of Venice as a city that «can be compared just with itself », enchanted site of an immaterial, unique experience, is already fully included in Goethe. The chapter about Venice taken from his book Italian Journey begins with these (...)

It is almost twenty years that my working life interlaces with the development of Venice, to begin with my convinced participation to the adventure of Expo 2000, and continuing with steady and punctual considerations about the dynamic of the city, especially concerning its integration with all (...)

Does the "diaspora" of a culture necessarily mean it will be impoverished, or will it acquire a greater role and influence? At emotive level this question brings to mind two great diasporas. Firstly, the Jewish diaspora scattering the children of Israel throughout the world, often to be (...)

Venice does not speak to its admirers, to its infinite numbers of fans who in more or less disciplined procession, present themselves to its countenance to breathe in its myth, letting themselves be shrouded by the languorous atmospheres of its legend. It allows itself to be seen, to be (...)