Leaving behind one’s beloved and habits requires a great courage, but also an unconditional passion. In fact, as the Sicilian writer Vincenzo Consolo once said, the act of leaving reflects the civilization level of a people. Sicilians who leave their land are neither disdainful nor disappointed, but eager to grow and do some good...

“Un so­gno sul­l’o­cea­no” (Dreaming on the ocean), San Paolo, 2019, “is a book about the ambition of 17-year-olds lived a century ago” according to the author, the psychoanalyst Luigi Ballerini. A novel addressed to today's young people, who have much in common with their peers of that time