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Cover of the book by Raffaello Massi entitled "Casalvento". The history of life in the Tuscan countryside in the years of classical agriculture

Casalvento in a book by Raffaello Massi

< Raffaello Massi is a surgeon and psychiatrist by profession who lives, works and writes in Florence. Casalvento is a sober and luminous exercise of memory. It is a lucid look at the passions of youth and its deceptions. It is the delicate reconstruction of an enchanted world. It is the world of the Tuscan countryside: wheat, vines, cypresses, barking dogs, the moon and silence. It is the simplicity of an...

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Black and white image from the 50s where an old uphill road with stone walls and protruding rocks leads to the Etruscan village of Castellinaccia once called Salingolpe; black writing: Castellina Vecchia

the old Castellina in the 50s: in the footsteps of the Etruscans

< When I was taken to visit the area before the purchase, I saw, together with an almost dilapidated farmhouse, also a miserable piece of land on the top of a hill at 630 meters above sea level where a dozen sheep grazed with difficulty. It was a plateau bordered by wild elms and ivy shrubs grown on dry stone walls about 2 meters thick and of ancient construction. Here and there...

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