#47 / 2025 / Venezia
For the second time, I've learned something from G.A. (and his team)
#46 / 2025 / Chiappera / Val Maira
Returning to my childhood summers, 1661 meters high — with the next generation
#45 / 2025 / Barcelona
Barcelona: the city where the three of us will live in 15 years
#44 / 2025 / Tribeca / New York
Which is it: life influencing work, or work influencing life?
#43 / 2024 / Torino
In the age of parenthood
#41 / 2024 / Boa Vista / Capo Verde
Can't remember why we used to say 'quaraaaanta' — but it was a great beginning for a new decade
#40 / 2024 / Georgia / USA / SCAD University
Double Feature: Savannah and (I still can't pronounce) Atlanta
#39 / 2024 / Williamsburg / New York
The first night felt like a scene from a classic New York TV series
#38 / 2023 / Torino / Legend by Promemoria
Michele De Lucchi said: ideas are mosquitoes
#37 / 2023 / Lacoste / France / SCAD Univesity
Of the many lectures in recent years, this one should be remembered
#36 / 2023 / Paris
To think of beauty as the expression of continuity
#34 / 2023 / Madrid
Let's all travel together again
#33 / 2022 / Venezia / IUAV
A Friday lecture was the occasion for our very first family trip
#30 / 2021 / Torino
Adulthood, vol 2: Celeste will change so much
#29 / 2021 / Milano
A letter from G.A.
#26 / 2019 / Berlin
It was not a matter of course that we would return home
#25 / 2019 / Torino
Adulthood, vol 1: buying a home
#24 / 2019 / Milano / Bordeaux / Poitou-Charentes
Our final takeoff from Milan
#23 / 2018 / Torino
Plot twist! Meet Promemoria and discover the potential of digital archives watch
#22 / 2017 / Milano
The first time I read “The Corrections”
#21 / 2016 / Nantes / Bretagne
An unforgettable morning in front of the ocean
#18 / 2014 / Nowhere
Commuting: the sunrise outside the train window changes place every day
#17 / 2013 / Bologna
April 10th, the day I got my doctorate in Cultural Anthropology
#14 / 2011 / Igdir
A sign at the foot of Mt Ararat: “do not travel this road after dark“
#13 / 2011 / Istanbul
Crossing the Bosphorus every single morning
#12 / 2010 / Aosta / Bologna / Thomas Pynchon
“Every dog has its day but a good dog just might have two days“
#11 / 2009 / Bologna
The city where I understood the cinema
#10 / 2008 / Chia
This place means something to us
#9 / 2008 / Bologna
Sesto Senso, where it all began
#8 / 2007 / Los Angeles
My memorable Marlowe night in L.A.
#7 / 2007 / San Francisco
A Regatta and a chopper ride in the Bay Area
#6 / 2006 / Aix-en-Provence
It is easy to feel like Cezanne in this sunlight
#5 / 2004 / Bologna
A Contemporary History college course that I will mention many times
#4 / 2004 / Barcelona
A week's journey became three unforgettable months as a waiter
#3 / 2003/ Roma
Moving in Rome (was not that easy)
#2 / 2002 / London
First time abroad with friends, we got lost
#1 / 1984 / Cuneo
Hello world!
This website is personal, with moderate ambitions. A few notes on how it was made. The font is the open-source IBM Plex Sans. Image credits go to SCAD University (#39), MyVisto (#37), Promemoria (#31), Ulaş Uğur (#15), and the 2011 Expedition 28 crew on the ISS (#14). The portraits in #19 are by the 2016 creative team at Lovethesign. I'm still trying to find the author of #23. I wrote the text, took the other photos, and coded the site with a lot of help from Codepal, a generative AI. It raises an interesting question about creative rights and collaboration in the age of AI. In my opinion, as technology evolves, the simple acts of reading books, viewing art, and enjoying poetry will become even more valuable—the revenge of 'otium' many of us have been waiting for. read more