UNA VOCE DAL PROFONDO

A new journey begins, in the Italy of the abysses, volcanoes and caverns where earthquakes are born. A story of earth, water and fire that this time starts in the deep South, the heart of Mediterranean Sea.

A voice comes from the bottom of an extinct volcano. A hoarse, lament-like sound, warns that there is a crack ripping through Italy from Sicily to Friuli. That of earthquakes. Rumiz decides to follow it, to enter "with Aladdin's lamp" into the world of the Minotaur. His journey into the foundations of the Peninsula, in an inferno of fault lines, craters, underground rivers, mines, catacombs and seabeds; in a world without stars that ignites the most intimate vibrations. An Unknown Land that takes us straight to the depths of the psyche and opens dizzying itineraries. A visionary story that, from Selinunte to the sanctuary of Oropa in the Alps, meets the shadows of Great Mothers, Sibyls and Madonnas and has as its centre of gravity Naples, the most subterranean, unstable metropolis, stratified, magmatic and at the same time most theatrical in Europe. It is there that Rumiz, listening also to poets musicians, anthropologists and people, deepens his 'geological' approach to Italian Peninsula. A dazzling journey into deep places and himes. In the footsteps of Chatwin and Kapuscinski, Paolo Rumiz pursues the tradition of travel as an experience of discovery. His journeys are geographical explorations, where he delves into history, real pilgrimages into people's physical and existential solitude.