2019 – BRUNO AND HIS DOLPHINS – 38 Pages in English, 21 x 14,5 cm. With 18 illustrations by the author, in Color. It is a series of bedtime stories I made up – in English – when I found myself with two grown children, Simon and Neil, about forty years ago, getting married in England.

Then I published them on ILMIOLIBRO.IT in 2018 in Italian. It is the story of Bruno and his two dolphin friends – Simon and Neil – that leads us to explore the sea and some of its secrets.

Fascinating but also fearful encounters. At at the end of the journey we understand that there is something else hidden in these pages – a bit like it happens in all fairy tales for children – that already existed then: the deep bond that binds us to the sea and the urgency to save it if we want to save ourselves.

It is not just the desire to teach children a bit of marine biology or to confuse their ideas about everything that can relate to sex. No, today more than ever, what comes out  is my faith in them as the only element of awareness of how we adults have managed to ruin our sea, our oceans, our rivers, our land. It is my faith in young readers that will learn to love them little by little, growing up and walking on clean beaches, swimming in blue waters.

Available on ILMIOLIBRO.IT and on this website. COMING SOON in ENGLISH on Amazon.

2016 – BLU OLTREMARE – 56 pages, 23 x 15 cm in Italian, with 9 illustrations by the author. My first experiment with the Self-Publishing site ILMIOLIBRO.IT - Main ingredients: love for the family, for painting and for the sea. But it is nearly impossible to explain the genesis of this manuscript that for nearly 11 years (from the death of the painter Carlo Battaglia) has been my faithful companion and help to overcome difficult moments. I believe each one of us has, in a secret place in our soul, something similar “in working progress” even if it is very difficult that it could ever emerge. Just the idea that others may read these pages is at times scary. In the end, the idea that some of my readres could also need “to come out and see the stars” convinced me that I should try too. In any case, it is written one page at a time, so it is really easy to understand if it suits and you are invited to have a look at the drawings before leaving it.

Books 2011 – IMAGINE – PhotoBook Square 60 pages 7 x 7 in. The key to reading this Photobook is very simple: imagine looking at something and suddenly realizing that you are seeing something else. In my head, it happens often… All I’ve done here is to show you the original image and – in the facing page – what I thought I see. From the comparison between the two pages, starts an interesting game that I hope you like.

Available on BLURB.COM and on this site.