Ernesto Galli della Loggia and Aldo Schiavone sign a polemical and passionate book between history and politics, built through the experience and encounters of a journey, a reconnaissance of the places of an Italy today on the margins, but in which perhaps our common destiny is written.

«Today it is no longer a matter of finding ways to integrate the South into the rest of the Peninsula. It is about remaking the country as a whole, seizing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It is Italy as a whole, its way of being a country and a state, that must be rethought. To bring to life this new chapter, the Mezzogiorno is needed more than ever».