"The true birthplace is the one where for the first time a conscious gaze was placed on oneself:
my homeland was books." — (from "Memoirs of Hadrian" by M. Yourcenar)

The activities carried out, the results achieved as well as the defeats, were addressed in a context of cultural training in which, even in the magma of the different experiences and knowledge acquired, some readings, visions, films, works of art, lessons can be considered as essential bricks that have directed choices, paths, dreams despite the hermeneutics that they have undergone in the natural growth and maturation that occurs over the years.

In this section some of these bricks, which have allowed the construction of consciousness and current character, the realization of the various initiatives and the achievement of some objectives, are simply reported with the relevant bibliographical references, as a possible suggestion for the younger ones, or just to better describe the humus in which they developed, or even to give life and make people perceive the state of mind that generated the events.

Books

  • Albert Camus, Caligula, Bompiani, 2018.
  • Albert Einstein, How I see the world.
  • Albert Einstein, Relativity. Informational exhibition. Ed. of the Centenary, Bollati Boringhieri, 2015.
  • Alessandro Baricco, Barnum.
  • Alessandro Baricco, The Barbarians. Essay on mutation, Feltrinelli, 2022.
  • Alessandro Baricco, The Game, Einaudi, 2021.
  • Alexandre Dumas, La Sanfelice, Adelphi, 1999.
  • Antonio Gramsci, Prison notebooks, Einaudi, 1975.
  • Bertolt Brecht, Praise of Doubt, Asterios, 2021.
  • Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe. Superstrings, hidden dimensions and the search for the ultimate theory, Einaudi, 2000.
  • Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos. Space, time, reality, Einaudi, 2004.
  • Brian Greene, The Hidden Reality. Parallel universes and profound laws of the cosmos, Einaudi, 2011.
  • Carlos Tablada Pérez, Economy, ethics and politics in the thought of Ernesto Che Guevara, Il Papiro, 1996.
  • Cesare Brandi, General Theory of Criticism, Einaudi Reprints, 1975.
  • Cesare Brandi, Structure and architecture, Einaudi Reprints, 1975.
  • Cesare Brandi, Verde Nilo, Elliot, 2017.
  • Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland. Fantastic tale of many dimensions, Adelphi, 1993.
  • Eugenio Montale, Cuttlefish bones, Mondadori, 2023.
  • Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. A book for everyone and for no one, Adelphi, 1986.
  • Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, Adelphi, 1978.
  • Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power.
  • Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Feltrinelli, 1968.
  • Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera.
  • Giorgio Vasari, The lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors, and architects.
  • Italo Calvino, Difficult Loves, Mondadori, 2023.
  • Italo Calvino, The castle of crossed destinies, Mondadori, 2023.
  • Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, Einaudi, 1972.
  • Italo Calvino, American Lessons, Mondadori, 2022.
  • Italo Calvino, One stone above.
  • Ivan Illich, Conviviality. A libertarian proposal for a policy of limits to development, Mondadori, 1974.
  • Jorge Luis Borges, Aleph, Bompiani, 1988.
  • Jorge Luis Borges, Fictions.
  • Jorge Luis Borges, History of Eternity, Adelphi, 1997.
  • Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland. Through the Looking Glass, Mondadori, 2016.
  • Marcel Proust, In search of lost time, Einaudi, 2017.
  • Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian. Followed by Notebooks, translation by Lidia Storoni Mazzolani, Turin, Einaudi, 1988.
  • Martin Heidegger, Being and time, Mondadori, 2021.
  • Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of perception, Bompiani, 2003.
  • Milan Kundera, The unbearable lightness of being, Adelphi, 1989.
  • Nicola Pagliara, Prohibitions. Reflections on what not to do in architecture, Clean, 2017.
  • Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational aesthetics, Postmedia Books, 2010.
  • Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Without losing the tenderness. Life and death of Ernesto Che Guevara, Il Saggiatore, 2004.
  • Plato, Symposium, Einaudi, 2014.
  • Renzo Piano, Logbook.
  • Robert Musil, The man without qualities, Mondadori, 1992.
  • Robert Musil, On Mach's Theories, Adelphi, 1993.
  • Roland Barthes, Myths of today, Einaudi, 2016.
  • Serge Latouche, Brief treatise on serene degrowth, Bollati Boringhieri, 2008.
  • William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Adelphi, 2024.
  • William Shakespeare, Macbett, Einaudi, 2016.
  • Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity, Laterza, 2011.
  • Adolf Loos, Words in the Void, Milan, Adelphi, 1992.

Movies

  • Blade Runner, Ridley Scott, 1982.
  • Tea in the desert, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1990.
  • Matrix, Lana and Lilly Wachowski, 1999.
  • Mediterranean, Gabriele Salvatores, 1991.
  • Star Wars (Original Trilogy), George Lucas, 1977-1983.
  • Three Colors - Blue Film, Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993.
  • Contact, Robert Zemeckis, 1997.
  • Inception, Christopher Nolan, 2010.
  • Monsters & Co., Pete Docter, 2001.
  • I'll start again from three, Massimo Troisi, 1981.
  • Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979.

Music

  • Another Brick in the Wall, Pink Floyd, 1979.
  • Losing My Religion, R.E.M., 1991.
  • Hey You, Pink Floyd, 1979.
  • The bandit and the champion, Francesco De Gregori, 1993.

Works of art

  • Vault of the Sistine Chapel (1508-1512) e Last Judgment (1536-1541), Michelangelo Buonarroti, Rome.
  • Blue Triptych I, II, III, Joan Miró, 1961.
  • Spring, Sandro Botticelli, ca. 1480, Uffizi Gallery, Florence.