Venice is much more than a city: it is a living, fragile, and incandescent material, capable of preserving stories that traverse time like fire passes through glass. On Wednesday July 29, at 6:00 p.m., in the Cultural Hall of the Post Office in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Giovanni Montanaro presents The Fire of Venice, his new, intense novel dedicated to the lagoon city and its silent protagonists.
Between the furnaces of Murano and the canals of the Serenissima, a great story of love and rebirth comes to life. Elena Spina Torcellan, a determined entrepreneur in a man-dominated world, and Tiziano Zen, a young glasscraft master with extraordinary talent, intertwine their lives against the backdrop of over fifty years of Italian history. From the ferment of the sixties to the challenges of the new millennium, amidst social transformations, epoch-making events, and passions that resist time, Venice reveals itself in all its authentic humanity.
A writer among the most appreciated voices of contemporary Italian literature and a finalist for the Campiello Prize with All the Colors of the World, Montanaro returns to tell the story of his city with a deep, poetic, and surprisingly current gaze. An unmissable meeting for those who love books, Venice, and the stories that continue to illuminate the present like the incandescent glass just taken from the furnace.
