Où est passé le passé. Traces, archives, images. Rome these chronicles immerse the reader

these chronicles immerse the reader in another continent

And the 100 works presented (from the Renaissance to the present day

The objects whose photographs illustrate this work

mixing an immoderate taste for adventure with certain talents as a travel journalist enhanced by a fine polyglot erudition

Où est passé le passé. Traces, archives, images. Rome these chronicles immerse the readerFor them, it is about beginning an exploration of this strange and fascinating world that is that of memory. Memory has a lot to do with history, naturally, but also, more profoundly, with writing and art in general. Barely experienced, every event sinks into the depths of the unknown past, on which float for a moment small fragments of memory. Yet an imprint remains, somewhere: a testimony, a recording of some kind, traces vestiges in short, which