I can say Italo Calvino has always been my mentor. My hometown, Sanremo, was the town where his family lived. I studied in the Lyceum where he studied.  When I was at University, studying literary translation , my Professor was fond of Calvino's books, which were a real  challenge .  It was during those struggling efforts that I became aware that I preferred to draw Calvino than to translate him, and my love for his work has remained and   inspired my art ever  since that time.

These works were done after reading " Invisible Towns". Some works date back to 1995. 

I like to recall  these words  of his when I introduce my work: "Only in Marco Polo accounts was Kublai Khan able to  discern, through the walls ant towers destined to crumble, the tracery of a pattern  so subtle it could  escape the termite's gnawing" (Invisible Towns, p. 5,  translated by William Weaver, Harcourt & Brace Company)

The tracery of pattern, la " filigrana così sottile" that I want to live  and pulse  behind my drawings