Dopo il successo de I vulcani di Islanda (Iperborea, 2019) in questo nuovo libro, Leonardo Piccione ci riporta sulle tracce di Guillaume Le Gentil, un eccentrico e quanto mai sfortunatissimo astronomo francese del Settecento, che si ostinò ad andare sulle tracce di Venere (pianeta che sarà oggetto di maggiori studi e spedizioni nei prossimi anni). Ma cosa c’entra la vita di questo...

“This is a book I really care about because is the one that speaks about the city I was born and I’ve been living in for over forty years: Naples. It is a collection of my “Granelli”, those short articles I kept writing for “La Repubblica” of Naples during the past three years so as to describe the several facets of this city. I hope this book will help me to make those who don’t...

Presented with the challenge of writing about today’s complex city, and the impossibility of covering all of its closely-woven urban fabric- indeed, it is made up of various different cities, each with its own characteristics, unmistakably different from the next adjoining neighborhood-, I felt hat there was only one choice open tome: to refer to "my” city (this is where the title of this...