The fixed zones:travelling means go into an aestetical place.

VENICE
 
-"Venice" by Giuseppe Patellaro is an historical.artistical and litery description which exceedes the outlook on the present problems in an essentially optimist description.It is certainly an essay addressed to a reading public and with international funcion.We are in front of a recalling which certainly conforms with this town's mood to be unique.The question of Venice survival is a topical keen subject;and this essay has also the merit of letting us discover new sides,like Serenissima's gardens which I didn't know.Personally I'm very anxious about Venice destiny(in London a Foundation was born to save this proof from the degradation in which it lies),because no cure to its disease has been found yet.In this context I believe that also technicians,economist and politicians should give a concrete contribution of theirs the real questions connected to Venice future.CARLO DIONISOTTI,Oxford University and Bedford College,London.
 
PARIS
 
-Paris in the Fifties,my Paris.Giuseppe Patellaro is a writer who has the gift of the recalling.I hadn't been thinking to this marvellous city anylonger;to me it is as to go back to the hunger and the cold,to my big sleep inside a crumpled blanket in the middleside of a Senna's bridge.Eroic years.We used to eat once a month;even it has always kept a place in my heart.Giuseppe Patellaro has written a brief geographical essay,a romantic profile which seems a long poetry and which is not a guide;but it'is effective to the people who are going to Paris with just the Abc.Then the rest will come by itself !!.I don't know how the French metropolis may be today because,except some rare passages,I haven't seen it since then;eventhough I've been bringing it my heart since when it was the most beautiful and cheerful town in the world.Well, I've broken the wall which divided my memories,and now I'm invited to go back there,for an ephemeral literary visit.Thanks to Patellaro.RAUL ROSSETTI,writer,Editorial Giulio Einaudi,Turin.
 
PARIS TWO
 
-Who has never been to Paris for three days at least?For our cultural forming,like Rome or Venice,we all keep this town in our heart.The recalling to Venice is not improper because Giuseppe Patellaro has already dedicated to the lagoon town of this same size: fifty pages or so in small type.Now the series goes on with Paris:an historical,poetical and geographical itinerary which shows the magnificence of that Capital which was the Capital for antonomasia and still holds an incomparable role in Europe of the Nineties.Tthe research begins by Baudelaire's poem "Parisiam dream",which reflects the melancholic inspiration followed by so many artists who discovered their individual roots in the humus of Paris,the certainly of their being.Patellaro likes recallings.This small book is not a guide;but a dissertation,a token of love.You can love a town as you love creature,with the same transport,the same humanity.Why writing?Why publishing?Because this is a way of loving.And of this way of loving Patellaro is leaving lasting traces.With his books,his poetical composition,his proses,with the colours of his book-covers,with the polish of editions.One of the few who still believes in written word.CARLO CASELLI,,journalist,vice Director of the newspaper "Eco di Biella".
 
THE FIXED ZONES
 
-Travelling means to go into aestetical place,into a zone of the mind frontiers where everything can appear as the first time,with the sense of infancy wonder and the poetry drifting apart.Giuseppe Patellaro with this books seems to make his way towards this sensibility latitude challenging the thousands of books written about the city,headless of getting into a maze of images and mirrors.Certainly there is in many study the taste of literary dissertation,the enjoyment in smashing the white page and receiving in the writing the historical memory,the "fixed zones",the postmodern brocade quotations without forgetting the more useful tale of geography;well,the notice to the passengers.MARCO CONTI,writer,journalist of "La Stampa" in Turin.