Paesaggi Culturali tra Geologia e Letteratura nel '900 in Emilia-Romagna.

Research previously carried out for the Landscape, Park and Natural Heritage Service of the Emilia-Romagna Region, gave us the idea of selecting those aspects of the geological landscape which, more than others, should be appreciated both for their intrinsic and contextual meaning and also for the “symbolic” value which they have gained through time. Thus, a project concerning a particular geological-literary itinerary was developed. This itinerary was developed by considering how the morphological features of the landscape in Emilia-Romagna have inspired poetry and culture. From Pascoli to Panzini, from Bacchelli to Bertolucci, Guareschi, Bassani, Delfini, Zavattini, Pederiali, Tondelli and many others, the places of 20th century poetry in Emilia-Romagna go from the windy sand dunes of the Romagna coast to the misty atmospheres of the Po Plain countryside, the barren silvery badlands of the Apennines, the dark humps of the mountains, the fantastic woods of the lowlands as far as the moody horizons of the “province—non-province”, which runs along the Via Emilia between the River Po and the Apennine ridges.