After spending his life elsewhere, Paolo Barbaro returns to Venice: he believes he will rediscover the city he knows, the city of his youth, but he is surprised to find that he still has much to discover. Something has changed and something seems to have remained unchanged over time, tenaciously clinging to the fragile “walls of memory.”
He thus walks through streets and squares, banks and bridges, encountering the stories of the changing and unpredictable humanity that inhabits these places, moved by the intention, at every step, to “relearn how to see.”

The result is a personal and highly topical diary, animated by the unmistakable prose of a great author who represents the literary reference point for the most recent generation of Venetian writers. A “sentimental guide,” enriched by a constant comparison between Venice and other modern cities, in which each of us “carries around a piece of our labyrinth” and rediscovers the complexity of our own living, in the fragile balance between immersion and volatility.

Preface by Giovanni Montanaro.

Year of publication: 2025
Language: Italian