The 2024 edition of ‘The Garden of Books’ is on its way. In anticipation of the news for the next edition, here are the events of 2023.
TUESDAY MARCH 7th, 5 P.M.
MEETING ROOM AT THE ENTRANCE OF HALL 5
The forest of pearls. How to regain our contact with Mother Earth
Meeting with FRANCO BERRINO and ENRICA BORTOLAZZI
Presented by Martina Milia
CWhich words would the trees whisper, if we were still able to decipher their language? What vision links the golden eagle and the silver fir? Answering these questions requires an immersion in the world of nature, discovering the secret connections that allow the planet to intone its harmonious song, to which human beings have often become deaf. A deep and high vision of the universe, revealing the mysterious plots that create a total and continuous work of art, of which the human being is an often unconscious protagonist. A book of poetry and knowledge, beauty and complaint. A book that clearly reveals the importance of acting concretely in everyday life to protect nature and that gives to the reader its highest value: the man as the guardian of the universe.
Franco Berrino is a physician and epidemiologist, he directed the Epidemiology Unit and the Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine at the National Cancer Institute in Milan. He promoted the development of cancer registers in Italy and coordinated European cancer registers for the study of patient survival (EUROCARE project). He is currently in charge of the MeMeMe project, a clinical trial funded by the European Research Council to prevent the incidence of age-related chronic diseases. In 2015, he founded the association ‘La Grande Via’. Among his books: La grande via with Luigi Fontana (Mondadori 2017), La via della leggerezza with Daniel Lumera (Mondadori 2019), Il cibo della saggezza. Che cosa ci nutre davvero with Marco Montagnani (Mondadori, 2020) and Il mandala della vita with Enrica Bortolazzi (Mondadori 2021). The Forest of Pearls. How to regain our contact with Mother Earth with Enrica Bortolazzi (Solferino, 2022) is his latest book.
Enrica Bortolazzi is a physician and epidemiologist, he directed the Epidemiology Unit and the Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine at the National Cancer Institute in Milan. He promoted the development of cancer registers in Italy and coordinated European cancer registers for the study of patient survival (EUROCARE project). He is currently in charge of the MeMeMe project, a clinical trial funded by the European Research Council to prevent the incidence of age-related chronic diseases. In 2015, he founded the association ‘La Grande Via’. Among his books: La grande via with Luigi Fontana (Mondadori 2017), La via della leggerezza with Daniel Lumera (Mondadori 2019), Il cibo della saggezza. Che cosa ci nutre davvero with Marco Montagnani (Mondadori, 2020) and Il mandala della vita with Enrica Bortolazzi (Mondadori 2021). The Forest of Pearls. How to regain our contact with Mother Earth with Enrica Bortolazzi (Solferino, 2022) is his latest book.
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SATURDAY MARCH 11th, 5 P.M.
HALL 5 – CONFARTIGIANATO PORDENONE AREA
Saving with the green. The green square metre revolution
Meeting with ANDREA MATI
Presented by Valentina Gasparet
«The world is like a garden» as stated by the psychologist James Hillman «everything that happens in a garden is full of metaphors for our psychic life». The life cycle, flowering and withering, the ability of plants to regenerate themselves do indeed have a great symbolic value. Caring for a plant can also have a therapeutic effect, it can be a remedy for many types of human fragility. By taking care of the green, a person in trouble takes care of himself, because he regains attention, self-confidence and planning that is indispensable to blossom in life again. On this revolutionary principle, ‘the green that saves the fragile’, Andrea Mati built his work and mission.
Andrea Mati was born in Pistoia in an historic family of nurserymen. A landscape architect and one of the owners of MATI 1909, a group of companies that focus on the design, construction and maintenance of green spaces, as well as other activities such as nursery production, professional training and the dissemination of green culture. He designs and supervises many green projects in Italy and Europe and, as a consultant, in some Arab countries. For almost 40 years, he has been designing and supervising all the green works of the San Patrignano Community in Rimini and the Comunità Incontro in Amelia (Terni). These experience led to Andrea Mati’s passion for therapeutic greenery and rehabilitation of people with psychic and social problems through work and contact with plants. He is the founder of the social cooperatives «Giardineria Italiana» and «Puccini Conversini». He designed and created gardens for the treatment of pathologies such as alzheimer, autism and down’s syndrome and has recently developed a series of innovative projects dedicated to reconnecting humans with nature. He was recently appointed lecturer at the very first Italian master’s degree in Therapeutic Horticulture organised by the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna. In 2022 he published «Salvarsi con il verde. La rivoluzione del metro quadro vegetale» (Saving with the green. The green square metre revolution – Giunti publisher).
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