closed due to covid-19

farmer's market queue

sanitizing the street

the mannequin wearing a facemask

the pharmacy

the newsstand

what else than sitting in the sun reading the newspaper

the greengrocer

Riccardo. He's a bookseller, and he is more positive than others but he’s younger and his resilience to this ever-changing economy is more comprehensible: if we have to adapt ourselves to wear gloves and masks we’ll do it, he says, we have to.

the groucery store

a walk with your dogs

Easter day

playing with your kid

Labour day demonstration

my brother

Thanks for working for free

Chiara and Jack having a breath in the countryside

coming back from a day spent working in the garden

It’s late evening and I’m going out for the little (200m) permitted walk around my house and I meet an old man, sitting on a box, enjoying the sunset with a book in his hands. He tells me that he is 88, and he looks perfectly fit. In less than half an hour he tells me the story of his life. I ask him if I’m allowed to take some photos but it’s pleonastic in comparison to his beautiful humanity. He never went to school much, he says, but he studied music and he can play the accordion. He uses it to play with his band in nursing homes, where, I’m sure, many of the people are younger than him. He writes books, little historical books, he says modestly. His calm optimism is a lesson that I can’t forget. What’s more beautiful and normal than reading a book, sitting on a lawn, enjoying the sunset?