Il mondo è rotondo: romanzo

In a scarred Italy still echoing the recent war, a slender, grey‑haired official named Beatus Renatus roams the streets of the south on a government commission to inspect schools. His official duties are constantly interrupted by the everyday absurdities of the towns—spitting citizens, wandering goats, and a bronze statuette perched on an ancient column. As he moves from one courtyard to the next, his notebook fills with observations that blend the bureaucratic with the bizarre, revealing a world where authority and the mundane collide.

The narrative unfolds with a dry, satirical humor, painting vivid scenes that feel both comic and melancholy. Beatus’s once‑sharp judgment shows signs of wear, his gloves and silk handkerchiefs becoming symbols of a fragile dignity amid chaotic street life. Through his eyes, listeners encounter a richly textured portrait of post‑war Italy, where the ordinary is rendered extraordinary by the narrator’s keen, slightly disenchanted voice.