No genealogy is neutral. If you stop dreaming of the past and decide to go and retrieve it; if you stir the soil of memory, more than ever that which is shared; if you illuminate the darkest corners, if you have the courage or recklessness to do all this, surprises and disappointments are inevitable.
To tell a story again means to change it: perhaps it is just a detail, almost invisible, but it often creates a crack. It can let light in or turn into a fissure, and piecing it back together is difficult, perhaps even senseless.
Stopping dreaming of the past and going to reclaim it is certainly risky, even painful, but looking it in the eye is the only way to understand where the roots sink: especially when those roots have given life to new existences. Turning your head back helps you move forward, to get back on the road. With a map.
We will be expertly welcomed by Chiara Alpago Novello at 9:30 for breakfast with coffee, tea, and all the good things to start the day off right; at 12:30 a light lunch, greetings, and toasts.
