2013

Claudio Visentin teaches History of Tourism at the University of Italian-language Switzerland and he is the director of the History Museum of Bergamo. He studies and describes new travel styles from the pages of the Sunday supplement of Il Sole 24 Ore. He has founded the ‘School of Travel’ where people improve their understanding and depicting places by means of writing, photography, and drawing. He published In viaggio con l’asino (with Andrea Bocconi, Guanda, 2009). 

Andrea Bocconi divides his time between psychotherapy and writing. He is a writing professor at the ‘School of Travel’. His books published by Guanda include: Viaggiare e non partire (2002), Il giro del mondo in aspettativa. Istruzioni per sperdersi: modi e luoghi (2004), La tartaruga di Gauguin (2005), Di buon passo. Tra Toscana e Umbria un viaggio a piedi lungo i sentieri del Medioevo (2007), In viaggio con l’asino (with Claudio Visentin, 2009), India formato famiglia (2011).

Ryszard Kapuściński was born in Pinsk and died in Varsavia (1932-2007). His books and reports include: Il Negus (1983), Imperium (1994), Lapidarium (1997), Ebano (2000), In viaggio con Erodoto (2005), Autoritratto di un reporter (2006), L’altro (2007), Ancora un giorno (2008), Nel turbine della storia (2009), Giungla polacca (2009) published by Feltrinelli; Opere (Mondadori, 2009) for Mondadori’s i Meridiani collection by S. De Fanti.