"Writing is therapy, sometimes I wonder how all those who don't write, they don't compose music or paint, they manage to escape madness, melancholy, panic which are implicit in the human situation." — Graham Greene, "Ways of Escape"

The blog has different purposes or perhaps can be read from different perspectives. It is definitely a professional and academic diary to write down the main research, teaching (including experimentation on AI-assisted teaching) and institutional activities carried out in recent years, to keep track of them and find them at the right time. But it is also a travel notebook and stories of cultural experiences and innovation (such as Uqbar, the IISE, the HUB, the magazines and posts on national blogs) which involved many friends with whom it was done a piece of the road together.

In short, for now, the idea is to put together a series of "notes" also scattered to build the pieces of a more ambitious project: a personal and collective biography that recounts the many battles carried out from the end of the 80s to today in difficult but fascinating territories where next to the natural beauty, the kindness and friendliness of a people, to the delight of food and the mild climate, to a unique ability to grasp the tragic and passionate essence of life, a serious cultural, social and political backwardness coexists, one of the worst criminal organizations in the country, a territory deeply scratched and, for some years, also a widespread tiredness that risks to transform into resignation and oblivion.

For this "corsair notes", in the hope that the story of those who have chosen to remain in a suburb of the South, of those who have chosen to do a little more than one's duty in one's work environment, who has chosen to add the civic dimension to that of the family, of work and individual pleasure, can give food for thought and suggest paths and initiatives, but also highlight mistakes and defeats, to the youngest among many challenges and battles that still await them to preserve the beauty of the places, give dignity to their land and a bright future for their children.

The posts are published in chronological order, some of them date back to a youthful period but testify to the energy and desire to face challenges and plan for the future.