Thursday 16 May 2024 at 5.00 pm in the Terzani room of the San Giorgio Library in Pistoia,
Lorenzo Cipriani is a 360 degree explorer of our time, because he is always searching for the origins of our civilization with the wisdom of someone who never separates Science and Humanism but intertwines them to listen to the ancient voices within the babel of the present and compose them into paintings living beings who raise those questions to which only the future will be able to answer. In this passionate and multifaceted book he recounts his sailing journey along the Mediterranean routes of the peoples who founded the West, landing in the ports of the lands and islands that were protagonists of the ancient world. The itinerary develops from Italy to Greece up to Istanbul, the Aegean islands and the Turkish coast, then returning home passing through Crete, Malta, Sicily, Sardinia and the Balearic Islands. Greeks, Etruscans, Phoenicians, Romans, Genoese, Venetians, Pisans, Amalfitans, Turks, Byzantines, Ottomans and Sardinians are among the peoples who sailed the Mare Nostrum: Cipriani holds a face-to-face conversation with their interesting stories, focuses sometimes bizarre characters, tells even slightly strange legends and evokes myths that are not always edifying. Art and narration, but also poetry and music, intertwine in this book to offer not only an engaging guide for future travels but above all a total immersion in Nature, which always nourishes and teaches. From time to time the author was also accompanied by four red mullets, bought in each port for high-level scientific research on the presence of microplastics in their entrails and then pan-fried for the palates of the Italian and foreign guests who came by on Milanto. For this reason we are faced with a disenchanted but energizing handbook aimed at a soul that wants to find itself behind the mystifications of our contemporary society.
THE AUTHOR
LORENZO CIPRIANI (1971) is an art historian, musician, writer and storyteller. As skipper he sails the seas of the world, collaborating with the Biology department of the University of Florence for scientific research on microplastics. He is a designer and cultural manager of various public and private institutions. He realized The Bewildered, a series of podcasts on works of art dispersed in the great museums of the world. Among his latest books: Pistoia. Art-History-Culture (Gli Ori 2019) e The breath of the ocean. Around the world on a sailing boat in the times of Covid (The books of Mompracem 2022). Photographer, he’s out Art Odyssey (Methylene) on this same trip to the Mediterranean.
Giunti Editore | Necklace Non-Fiction Fiction
400 pages | 18 euros
In bookstores on 2/5/2024
