THE ART OF WRITING

Through this art writing tool, the written word, a prodigious instrument that makes us so human, becomes unique through time.

While the language is made by sounds, the writing is made by signs thanks to a tool which is used to communicate and to leave proofs on paper. This tool becomes an instrument to write the history of human being, not only to give interpretations to the world but also to enter the mystery of the mind.

In the function of writing words, a fountain pen connects emotions to reason.

On the body of the pen, as a canvas of present time, the voice of Homer, Dante and García Márquez come to life, as engraved on parchment.

Through centuries the world has seen the evolution of literature, as expression of human thought, according to human ideals and its changes.

Thanks to writing, we have a universal memory; from ancient Greece, through the Middle Ages in Italy, until the magical realism in Latin America.

During the ancient times, mankind was singing to leave a record of his life, during Middle Ages he was focused on the path to redemption, moral and religious, and the man of our times, as in a hypothetical renaissance, gets excited in front of the beauty and gets inspired singing and dreaming.

Who has not held a pen in his hands feeling the power of time and the need to use it?

An ancient quill completes the perfect triad, along with paper and ink, and represents a loyal witness of human feelings. Homer, Dante, and García Márquez: universal heritage belonging to mankind. Homer with the quill, Dante with paper and García Márquez with ink.

This is the strength to transcend the human experience, whose ideography records the history of a country in the Homer epic, passions of his time and connection between poetry and fiction in the deep Dante’s voice, a fantastic dance and his magic realism in García Márquez literature.

Before the arrival of writing, the epic (the poetry of life), was remembered by oral tradition. Homer, with his "Iliad" and "Odyssey" had to wait nine centuries to link his name to those literary masterpieces, thanks to a fountain pen. It was prophesied: "It will be immortal forever and will not know old age." Homer became eternal thanks to his writings.

“Cantami, o Diva, del Pelide Achille

l'ira funesta che infiniti addusse

lutti agli Achei, molte anzi tempo all'Orco generose travolse alme d'eroi”

"Sing Goddess, Achilles' rage
black and murderous, that cost the Greeks
incalculable pain, pitched countless souls of heroes into Hades' dark”

(translation by Mr. Stanley Lombardo, Indianapolis, Hackett Edition, 1997)

it is perhaps the most famous prologue of all history of literature. In a few sentences it introduces the entire contents of the Homeric epics and the conquest of Troy.

Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise. Dante, in his world literature masterpiece “Divine Comedy”, written in the Florentine vernacular (the language that gave rise to modern Italian), summarizes the over centuries large accumulated human knowledge. Dante descends into Inferno and, through the imaginary journey that brings him to the three realms of dead, he arrives at Paradise and sees the Trinity.

“Considerate la vostra semenza:

fatti non foste a viver come bruti,

ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza”

“Bethink you of the seed whence ye have sprung;

for ye were not created to lead the life of stupid animals,

but manliness and knowledge to pursue”

(translation by Mr. Courtney Langdon, London, Cambridge Harvard University Press, 1918)