I due Desiderii

The work opens as a daring literary experiment: the author has given us only the prologue and the epilogue of a novel that never fully appears, trusting the listener to imagine the missing middle. Set in a dimly lit dormitory of an Italian boarding school in the late 1800s, the brief opening sketches a world of quiet mornings, whispered breaths, and a handful of fragile friendships. Its tone is both contemplative and intimate, inviting you to consider how much of a story is shaped by what is left unsaid.

At the heart of the prologue sits Desiderio, the first to rise each day, who watches over his fellow sleepers and feels the sudden absence of Giulio, a boy haunted by the loss of his mother. Desiderio’s attempts to comfort the grieving child, his turn to cherished fairy tales, and his day‑dreams of solitary islands hint at deeper questions of hope, memory, and the ways imagination cushions grief. Listening to this fragment promises a reflective portrait of childhood longing and the quiet bravery found in the spaces between words.