with
Gianluca Gambino
Valter Schiavone

Carlo Roncaglia voice and guitar
Andrea Cauduro strings

lyrics Emiliano Poddi
arrangements Accademia dei Folli
lighting and phonic Andrea Cauduro
direction Carlo Roncaglia
production ACCADEMIA DEI FOLLI

Here is how a jester and a traveller pleasantly discuss the marvels of the Far East; and also how the marvellous things that can be seen there, whether they are true or not, also seem to be fanciful.
Great century of travellers, the 1300s. A strange eagerness enters the bodies of thousands of men from every part of Europe, quiet fathers of families who one fine morning get out of bed, get dressed, kiss their wives in front of the doorway and say: Berta, I’m going, I’ll be back in... twenty-seven years; I recommend that you don’t open the door to anyone, you’re fine, I’ll send you a pigeon, and then off they go, twenty-seven years without coming back.

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