Resorts Magazine

A book that is not read: it is crossed, inhabited, like certain places that never return, like decisive loves—the kind that never truly end. A long, conscious drift through time, space, and memory. From the very first pages, Angelo Tondini Quarenghi makes his existential stance clear: “The traveler finds what he is not looking for. The tourist looks for what he does not find.” In this sharp, almost moral distinction lies the entire meaning of the work, which rejects the idea of travel as consumption and affirms it instead as knowledge, risk, and loss. For Tondini, travel is a form of moral knowledge even before it is a geographical one. It is not escape, but an exercise of the gaze: “I am always ready to be amazed and to enjoy the greatest show on earth: Nature, people, and the occasional rare work of humankind.” Yet this sense of wonder is constantly crossed by a lucid melancholy, because “the planet is stunning, marvelous, but we Sapiens—ever more numerous and useless—are rapidly destroying it.” Poetry thus arises from friction: between what once was and what will be no more, between lost silence and contemporary noise. by Ovidio Guaita I Don’t want Things, I Want Moments Angelo Tondini Quarenghi and the art of living, observing, and remembering in his latest book Poesia in viaggio. Una vita 120 RESORTS MAGAZINE