Piero Barucci
Economist
Firenze
ITALY |
I cannot think of Sicily without a sense of great respect, almost of fear, for a land of overwhelming beauty, heir of a great and controversial history, rich in unequalled archaeological treasures. It is a land that parades under the banner of contradictions. In a highly dramatic version, Gioacchino Rossini's "Tancredi" sums it all up. Here intrigue and love, heroism and the art of politics are fused, always in a strong register, in syntheses of true, great and often heroic causes. I experience that medley of sensations and emotions when I have before me a bottle of Tancredi and when the play of imagination is reinforced by a ...>> |
