Francesca Spada

“If he digs and digs,” Renato explains to Renzo Lapiccirella, a friend and deputy editor-in-chief of l’Unità, (“one of the purest Marxists in Naples” as Anna Maria Ortese defines him), “in the end, what does he who has eyes to see discover, over and above the confines of disorder? He discovers fragments of harmony, of perfection. And he gives them to us. This is what geniuses do, be they mathematicians, musicians or poets.”