Italiana is a descent through the unchartered, across irregular byways and small-sized characters; the secondary geography of an unglobalised country where modernity makes little sense. The pleasantry and the slums; the squalor and the sacred; desolation and poetry. stylistically, Italiana aims to be a fundamentally classic photography book, making a step towards the European identity, not only the Italian one, and towards a kind of photography -humanistic photography - that derives from empathy for one another.