June 1, 2024
The book “Guarigioni d’amore” by Lodovico Marchisio, Roberta Maffiodo and Edi Morini was presented at the Unicredit Club Library in Turin on 29 May 2024.
There are moments in life that you never forget. The afternoon of May 29, 2024 is a date that I personally will not forget. Already the beginning of the presentation of the authors by Paolo Rosso, who brought the greetings of the President and the management of the Unicredit club, promised well and the confirmation was received when the publisher (EEE Edizioni) Piera Rossotti, a full woman of charisma and vitality who believes in what he does and who explained how he met Lodovico and of the empathy that has been created over the years with the author as both members of the AASAA (Auteurs Associés de la Savoie et de l’Arc Alpin ).
“Healings of love”
The meeting announced itself from the beginning as a very interesting presentation of a new book entitled “Healings of Love”, co-written by
- Edi Morini, journalist
- Roberta Maffiodo, photographer
- Lodovico Marchisio
who I have known for a long time and not only by “fame” for his 29 published books. On this occasion he surprised me too because, although I was aware of the disabling pathologies that had affected him and from which the above-mentioned book arises, I never again thought that with images endorsed by doctors elsewhere, “Parkinson’s” would disappear under the effect of a dynamic action and then reappears when returning to the living space.
- So I discovered that this theory has been known for years by doctors who have had direct testimonies from athletes, football, basketball, tennis players and even dancers and pianists.
- What was truly extraordinary to me was that “Marchisio”, as an indomitable mountaineer of the past, returned to action in the mountains, not only to delude himself that Parkinson’s disease, once he descended into the valley, would sooner or later never return, but also to undergo it as a guinea pig until we understand if there could be a drug (since there are already some remedies to treat it) to prevent it since the causes that give rise to it are not well known with absolute certainty since it also affects young people, but only that chronic exposure to metals such as manganese, copper, iron, aluminum and lead increase the risk of developing the disease.
- Having exhausted this topic, however, the elements that amazed me from the beginning do not end, such as the embrace proving the true love of the two protagonists of the book when Roberta Maffiodo, crying, remembered (because she was present) the heart attack that occurred two years ago to Lodovico, when she saw the helicopter take her husband away to the hospital in Grenoble and the martyrdom she experienced with her son and daughter-in-law, to reach him. Roberta then recalled her hospitalization for depression caused by a knee accident, due to which she could no longer join her husband in the mountains and the fear of losing him. Her sentence was then contradicted by a real declaration of love from both of them which she read.
- Even as a speaker she amazed everyone, because she seemed to do this for a living when she read the poem “Amicizia” and the song “Vettaiolite” which appeared in Mauro Carlesso’s book. The publisher jokingly stated that the book also contains the discovery of a contagious and unknown disease (vettaiolite to be precise).
- Giorgio Bonino then spoke, a poet who follows the authors in their presentations due to the great friendship that was established between them and confided to the audience present that he began writing after the death of his beloved father and has never stopped since then. to elaborate verses and prose. The poet claims to slide from naturalistic and love poetry to those with a civil content.
- We were all truly moved when Franco Stuardi, collaborator of the book, intervened and explained how he met the author about 60 years ago on the ski slopes of Bardonecchia and all the mountains climbed together over the years, from the Matterhorn to Mont Blanc and many others, but that not even the long periods spent apart for work have ever distanced them from that immense friendship that still unites them for life.
- Then Giampiero Salomone expressed his thoughts, also quoted in the book, who metaphorically united the summit not only as a point of arrival, but that to reach his goal, Lodovico, his close friend, used the most unexpected psychological stratagems to find us in summit without knowing how we had gotten there. He recalled making those present smile when he passed the rope around the cross of the Rocca Provenzale in Val Maira, because the author continued to exalt himself by hopping from one boulder to another over the precipice.
The evening ends with Roberta’s songs:
The first dedicated to her husband on their wedding day taken from a song by Omar Codazzi entitled: “Thank you” and “Le mie Valli”.
The meeting concluded with greetings from the publisher followed by welcome refreshments.
Corrado Martinelli
