At Go, the presentation of the volume La costituzione americana? È nata a Venezia (Supernova) by Giancarmine Vicinanza, with a foreword by Giuseppe De Filippi, will take place. A reconstruction of the relationships between the Florentine Filippo Mazzei — who was in love with Venetian civilization and fascinated by the centuries-long endurance of its political model — and the key figures of the American Revolution such as Franklin, Washington, and Madison.

For the occasion, the author will engage in conversation with Giovanni Carta.

The book:

The American Constitution was not born from a solitary dream of freedom. It was born from a thousand years of a Republic that managed to endure. It was born from the waters of a Lagoon where men and women understood that true power is not the power to command, but to govern by sharing the “burden” of freedom. And it was born, finally, from an Italian who one day sat beside George Washington and whispered to him the secret that Venice had safeguarded for a thousand years: how to make freedom last over time. Forged through compromise, yet faithful to a rare and immensely powerful principle: the common good.

What this book shows, through its various chapters, is that great political transformations do not occur only through revolutions, but also through whispers, conversations, letters—the slow sedimentation of an idea in the minds of those who have the power to turn it into institutions. Venice did not carry out the American Revolution. It was in decline, worn down by Ottoman wars, economic difficulties, and European pressures. But Venice did something deeper: it provided the mental, cultural, and ideal model. The model of the Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia is a miracle, an architecture built with persistence, clarity, and vision. Living proof that another path was possible.

The author:

Giancarmine Vicinanza, born in Salerno in 1975. Classical high school diploma, degree in Political Science. A Master’s in European communication and public relations. Passionate about modern and contemporary history. Journalist and former parliamentary correspondent, father of two daughters, he lives in Rome, where he has worked in the communications sector since 1999. Since 2005, he has been Head of the Press Office of Confcooperative, the main association representing cooperatives in Italy in terms of number of member companies, employees, and turnover.

A text aimed both at couples and at individuals who wish to better understand themselves, within and beyond romantic relationships. At the same time, a tool for reflection and dialogue also for therapists. Rossano Bisciglia presents Come evitare le trappole della coppia. Guida alle relazioni sentimentali (Giunti Psicologia.io), accompanied by actress Daniela Morozzi.

The book:

Why has the couple lost the shine it once had? Come evitare le trappole della coppia explores relational mechanisms that, although rooted in genuine needs, end up suffocating emotional vitality. There are those who merge too quickly and confuse intimacy with the absence of boundaries; those who delegate to their partner the task of understanding, without ever asking; those who measure love based on the number of messages received or on the shared control of everyday details. There is the couple that always laughs, so as never to touch real emotions; the one that shares everything except desire; the one that mistakes calm for a relationship that works. Through real-life stories, clear language, and psychological reflections, the book helps readers recognize dysfunctional dynamics, understand their emotional roots, and imagine possible ways out. It is not a manual for the “perfect couple,” but a sincere invitation to build more conscious, mature, and vital relationships.

The author:

ROSSANO BISCIGLIA is a psychologist, psychotherapist, and clinical sexologist. For over twenty years he has carried out clinical work with individuals, couples, and groups. At CAM – Centro di Ascolto Uomini Maltrattanti in Florence, he works with men who have committed acts of violence and is co-author of the intervention protocols adopted by the service. He also carries out training and teaching activities in the clinical field for Psicologia.io and for ACABS School of Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy.

At GO, a special meeting will be held with the winners of the literary award Racconti nella Rete. During the event, the 2025 anthology, published by Castelvecchi, will be presented.

The presentation of the anthology will be led by Demetrio Brandi, President of the award, and will feature the participation of the authors Barbara Bertani, Lisa Bove, Giuseppe Ciarallo, Anna Martellotti, and Manuela Pomicino.

Following this, the short film L'algoritmo, winner of the section dedicated to short films in the competition, will be screened, featuring Andrea Inserra, Vincenzo Puzziferri, Alessio Casini, and Alessandro Bartoli. Directed by Giuseppe Ferlito, screenplay by Giuseppe Ciarallo, produced by LuccAutori and Scuola di Cinema Immagina.

The Award:

This anthology publishes the twenty-five winning stories of the 2025 edition of the literary award Racconti nella Rete®. The award takes place annually on the website raccontinellarete.it and concludes in October in Lucca, as part of the literary festival LuccAutori®.

Founded in 2002 from an idea by Demetrio Brandi, the Racconti nella Rete® literary award has established itself as the most important national competition for emerging writers. The award is active throughout the year on its website and is supported by a series of anthology presentations in various Italian cities. This edition is rich in contributions from across the peninsula and reflects the growth that has taken place over time in this creative writing “workshop”: increasingly refined and diverse prose, more original themes, tones and styles, and narratives shaped by precise stylistic exercises.

These stories reflect an artistic intent that is progressively less amateur and increasingly oriented toward professionalism, to the point that the literary experience of Racconti nella Rete® can offer insight into a changing Italy—more cultured, more reflective. This year, the anthology is enriched by a cover illustration by Marilena Nardi.

The winners of the 2025 selection

Here are the twenty-five authors selected for this year’s anthology:

Stefano Acquario, Mariateresa Amatulli, Antonio Apostolo, Elena Barocci, Barbara Bertani, Lisa Bove, Noemi Carraro, Attilio Del Giudice, Alessandra Di Graziano, Rita Anna Maria Stella Fantini, Kassandra Fedele, Nina Lucchi, Elisa Maini, Alberto Marrias, Anna Martellotti, Jacques Martinet, Carlotta Mura, Marco Polcari, Manuela Pomicino, Emma Preti, Barbara Rendina, Claudio Righenzi, Sabrina Spadaro, Massimo Vezzaro, Anna Volpe.

A story of mafia and motherhood, omertà, courage and rebirth. Danilo Chirico presents La figlia del clan (Edizioni Piemme), in which, for the first time, Giuseppina Pesce, “la postina”, tells from the inside what it means to be born and raised in a ’ndrangheta family.

The book:

A car speeds along the Salerno–Reggio Calabria highway. It is the summer of Italia ’90. A family sings happily with the windows down, heading to Gardaland. In the back seat, three children are playing. Among them is Giusy, eleven years old. She does not yet know that this happiness is fragile, that her surname weighs like a sentence.

Giuseppina Pesce grew up in Rosarno, at the heart of one of the most powerful clans of the ’ndrangheta. Daughter, sister, niece of bosses. Born into a house where silence is law and blood is never betrayed, in her early thirties she chooses to speak. To testify. To break the chain. She does it to save her children.

She is one of the first women in the ’ndrangheta to collaborate with justice. From that moment on, she loses everything: her family, her name, her former life.

La figlia del clan is the intimate and shocking account of a woman who has crossed violence, guilt, and fear in order to conquer her freedom.

The author:

Danilo Chirico (Reggio Calabria, 1977) is a journalist and television author. He works with RaiTre and hosted Le parole dell’antimafia (Rai Radio 3). He has authored news programs for Rai 1, La7, Sky, and MTV.

He has written for newspapers and press agencies, created the podcast Follow the money, and co-authored the documentary Il Celeste – Storia di Roberto Formigoni. He wrote the novel Chiaroscuro and the web series Angelo. He has published numerous essays, including Dimenticati (with Alessio Magro), which won the Indro Montanelli Giovani award.

He is also the author of Storia dell’antindrangheta, the first book on the history of the Calabrian antimafia movement, and founder of the association daSud.

The protagonist:

Giuseppina Pesce was born in 1979 into one of the most powerful ’ndrangheta families operating in Rosarno, Calabria. In 2010, she was arrested on charges of being the clan’s “postina” and later became a collaborator of justice.

Since then, she has been living under protection together with her three children.

Through creativity, it is possible to look within and around ourselves, to reach the sky, to attract lightning. In a materialistic society, it is the only force that allows us to stay in touch with magic and miracles: the incredible spectacle of imagined things becoming real. Una cosa spirituale (Einaudi) is a journey through creative processes and the experiences of artists and mystics, between the earthly and the otherworldly. The author, Vasco Brondi, will be with us to present it together with Stefano Mancuso.

The book:

Una cosa spirituale is a journey between the earthly and the otherworldly, a vision of how to make art in an age of materialism. Vasco Brondi shares his experience with creativity: the moments when he felt the creative flow had stopped, and those in which he found it again.

He explores and connects the creative and spiritual practices of great artists, mystics, and contemplative traditions: Nick Cave and the Sufis, fortune tellers and Federico Fellini, the Desert Fathers and CCCP Fedeli alla linea, Marina Abramović and Tibetan monks, sadhus and David Lynch, Simone Weil and the kingdom of heaven.

It is an invitation to discover and be inspired by the creative processes of filmmakers, musicians, writers, and visual artists—and by their relationship with the invisible. Vasco Brondi, whose songs have reached many, suggests that in this materialistic age, art is not merely entertainment but a way to reconnect with the magic and mysteries of our earthly passage. In this sense, creativity is a spiritual matter.

The author:

Vasco Brondi (1984) is a singer-songwriter and writer. He has created books, albums, and soundtracks, and is considered one of the most relevant and influential musicians of his generation.

He debuted in 2008 with the album Canzoni da spiaggia deturpata under the name Le luci della centrale elettrica.

He is also a teacher and practitioner of yoga and meditation, and organizes retreats focused on bodily, creative, and contemplative practices (PCCC). His latest album is Un segno di vita (Carosello 2024), and his first book is Cosa racconteremo di questi cazzo di anni zero (Baldini Castoldi Dalai 2009).

For Einaudi, he has published Una cosa spirituale. Non fare niente e altre forme d'arte (2026).

What can J. R. R. Tolkien tell us today, in a world shaped by wars, generational uncertainty, and an increasingly dominant artificial intelligence?

Get ready to discover it together with Rick DuFer, author of Il pensiero incoraggiante (Bompiani).

The book:

For a long time, his fantasy universe was dismissed as mere escapism. But his stories, when read with a careful eye, speak to us again with strength, clarity, and surprising relevance.

Il pensiero incoraggiante is an unexpected and luminous journey in seven stages—seven lessons of wisdom inspired by the creator of The Lord of the Rings—to face the challenges of the present with the strength of values, the calm of awareness, and the courage of those who do not fear the battle.

From the climate crisis to the digital revolution, from the dark allure of power to the hunger for truth, the book explores the crucial themes of our time through the lens of Middle-earth, returning them to us more vivid, more human, more urgent.

With a clear and compelling style, Rick DuFer guides the reader along paths where philosophy, spirituality, and literature meet, showing how Tolkien’s world is not an escape, but an orientation: a compass in confusing times.

Because even when darkness seems to fall over everything, hope remains a concrete and revolutionary force, still capable of changing the world.

The author:

Rick DuFer (Thiene, 1987), pseudonym of Riccardo Dal Ferro, is a philosopher, communicator, and performer.

He speaks about ideas and culture to tens of thousands of people every day through YouTube and the podcast Daily Cogito, available on Spotify, iTunes, and Spreaker.

Among his works: Spinoza e popcorn. Da Game of thrones a Stranger things, capire la filosofia sparandosi un film o una serie TV (De Agostini, 2019), I racconti della vera nuova carne (Poliniani, 2020), Seneca tra gli zombie. Guida filosofica di sopravvivenza al caos (Feltrinelli, 2022), La parola a don Chisciotte (Feltrinelli, 2023), and Critica della ragion demoniaca. Quali forze sono al comando della tua vita? (Feltrinelli, 2024).

Imagine a bookstore at midnight… the silence, the soft lights… and suddenly, the stories come to life!

Just like in Night at the Museum, here too the characters step out of the pages and onto the stage… telling their stories through the most emotional language of all: dance!

Let yourself be carried away on a journey of rhythm, passion, and magic: Argentine Tango, Swing, Waltz, Salsa, Rumba… and much more!

A unique experience where dance meets imagination, and every step becomes a story to live.

Free entry without reservation!

Carlo Conti presents A pesca con il babbo (DeAgostini), a book about the bond between father and son, inspired by the author’s real passion for fishing—a hobby he inherited from his grandfather and now passes on, through this middle-grade book, to a new generation represented by his son Matteo.

The book

A shared passion between father and son becomes the starting point for eight philosophical and universal life lessons. By turns ironic, tender, and occasionally adventurous, this autobiographical story comes from the pen of one of Italy’s most beloved TV hosts.

Father and son spend time together waiting for something to bite. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn’t—but every experience becomes an opportunity to share happy moments, strengthen their bond, and learn valuable lessons about fishing and about life.

Like all true passions, Carlo and Matteo’s fishing adventures don’t end when they return home: they linger, multiply, and live on through stories and memories—whether it’s a quiet day by the riverbank or an epic, thrilling challenge like the one with “Re Tonno,” much to the protests of mother Francesca over the strong smell of the… trophy.

From sharing tips about hooks, lines, and bait, to choosing the best fishing spots with respect for nature and its inhabitants, a deep connection emerges—a dialogue that is both intimate and playful. Through it come reflections on patience, respect for the vulnerable, the importance of responsibility, the joy of celebrating success, and above all, the value of family and tradition—because the bond between those who love each other is a thread that never breaks.

The author

Carlo Conti (Florence, 1961) is widely known as one of Italy’s most popular television presenters, but alongside his TV career he has also worked as an author.

Alongside his success in major Rai programs, Conti has written several books in which he shares episodes from his life, personal reflections, and behind-the-scenes insights into the world of entertainment. His writing is characterized by a direct, ironic, and accessible style, reflecting his on-screen personality.

Among his works are autobiographical titles such as Si dice babbo! and Un momento d’oro, where he recounts his childhood in Florence, his relationship with his family, and the path that led him to success. His books often highlight the importance of commitment, irony, and simplicity—qualities that also define his public image. His latest book, published by DeAgostini, is A pesca con il babbo.