About this project

I learned how to read at 5, and never stopped. I never stopped to think how or why, I just know that reading feels like breathing and not reading is torture. My mother reads, yes, but not with the same need for air that I always felt so I thought I was kind of an oddity in the family.
Until she told me about my grandma's grandfather: he was born in the firsth half of the 18th century in a village in northern Italy, live all his life as farm worker. At his death, she said, they had to take out all the books from his home."People at the time didn't know how to read, but he did. And no one knows how he acquired so many books".
I felt the first glimpse of a lineage, maybe my desperate reading was something that comes with the family line.
And then I remember my mother, yet again, talking about my grandma reading the Aeneid by Virgil. My grandma was 8 when WWII started and was forced to stop going to school. When the war ended she was 13 and it was not possible for her to go on from where she left. She made what, for us nieces and nephews, were simple grammar mistakes and having 5 of us to look afte she always said she learned from the lessons we studied after school.
As such, reading the Aenid was a sincere effort on her part. I remember my mother's comment, "I wonder if she even got half of it". Well, I think she did. Because literature is for everyone, even when it's hard and difficult and you stopped studying at 8 years old but still held onto love for reading.
This project takes on the name of my grandmother and is my love letter to her and what
These are classics works, either in Italian or word literature, regarded as "staple" that for a reason or the other I never had the time to read or finish but really wish to read.
It's just a selection subject to change, of books that sometimes we find too difficult, to remind myself that despite everything I can make it.

• CR: La Divina Commedia - Inferno - Dante Alighieri
• La Divina Commedia - Purgatorio - Dante Alighieri
• La Divina Commedia - Paradiso- Dante Alighieri
• Decamerone - Giovanni Bocaccio
• Lo Cunto de li Cunti - Giambattista Basile
• Journey to the West - Xīyóu Jì
• The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
• Odyssey - Homer