The emotional connection with the reality of one’s homeland is the secret behind the poetic inspiration that breathes life into the text, which depicts that part of Lombardy poised between flat landscapes and mountain peaks, and which preserves the echoes of the past in its rituals and traditions – not as a folkloric quirk, but as an awareness of that historical, cultural and social unity, which, in the frenzy of the postmodern era, might well be forgotten.