Threads of Thought

Nominated for the 2026 Premio Strega, La rosa inversa (Sellerio) by Maria Attanasio moves across eighteenth-century Europe, between the Enlightenment, libertarian tensions, and systems of control, tracing the irregular paths through which ideas take shape and circulate. Within intellectual networks, affiliations, and conflicts, knowledge depends on fragile channels, constantly exposed to dispersion. In this unstable balance, transmission entails a form of trust that must be continually renewed, bound to the responsibility of recognizing, preserving, and interpreting the past in the present.