Finchè il cuculo canta

Tales of men, rocks and chamois. "As long as the cuckoo sings it is worth listening to it. The cuckoo brings spring and with it hope. These pages are made up of tales of men, rocks and chamois. That song gave birth to them, under the young sun of two springs. In spring memories come back. They tell stories that have happened, dramatic, harsh, some ironic, which have crossed the protagonists' lives from side to side. The background, where they move like distant shadows, is nature, strong, sweet, ruthless, which, as Pessoa said, "it is never remembered and therefore it is beautiful". It is a tribute to the epic of the last, to a world now disappeared, to an abandoned town populated by the ghosts of the past. It is a bit like returning to its streets, among its houses, with those people. Stories re-emerged from oblivion, coming out of the cobblestones of the San Rocco district, near the church, where I grew up together with my peers, where for centuries the heart of old Erto beat." Mauro Corona.