La fabbriche che costruirono l'Italia

[Autom. eng. transl.] The book proposes a journey into the Italian industrial imagination, through some of the symbolic places from which an idea of modernity passed: Settimo Torinese, Genoa, Arese, Rescaldina, Sesto San Giovanni, Bagnoli, Pozzuoli, Torviscosa, Porto Marghera, Ivrea, Terni, Valdagno. The author tells of factories that are still in operation and others that are no longer in use, he describes motorway restaurants, workers' villages, urban structures, abandoned areas, also relying on the boundless literary and artistic heritage that the culture of the twentieth century has left us. More than obeying a nostalgic need, he tries to understand and recover the identity of a nation, the humble Italy of peasants and artisans, which passed in a few years from the civilization of the earth to the civilization of machines and now in the midst of globalization processes . Some chapters have been published for the first time in the pages of the Sole 24 Ore, in the section Travel in the industrial imagination, from July to September 2019.