This anthology of photographs and quotations about and for Tuscany is intended as a tribute to the land that gave me birth and whose air I have always breathed.
The shots you will find in this book were taken at dawn or sunset, when the natural beauty of the land, vegetation, sky, and animals is at its most genuine and absolute.
The threshold between night and day, and its mirrored moment in the afternoon, are the very paradigm of beauty and harmony with nature.
I hope I have managed to capture, beyond just the form of things, the silence that wrapped the landscape at the moment of the shot.
A silence that is never the absence of sound, but rather the whisper of elements — a lullaby for the senses, both eyes and ears — reconciling us with the earth and with humanity.
Because that’s what beauty — true Beauty — does: it brings peace.
There is no conflict where beauty is absolute, undeniable, and unequivocal.
Yes, this collection can also be seen as a study of Beauty, annotated and enriched by verses and pages that have already found their own path toward the Beautiful.
An aesthetic journey, but also — if I may use the word — an initiatory one.
Through the lens, I have tried to pass fragments of aesthetic and ecstatic pleasure, my personal way of defending beauty.
Because to defend beauty also means — above all — to defend nature, the environment, and art, the most authentic identity card of our civilization.
Tuscany of the Soul finally aims to be more than a book about Tuscany: it is a book for Tuscany.
A volume meant to reveal that soul which too often lies buried under clichés and advertising slogans.
A soul that breathes through the verses of the greatest poets Italy has ever known.
A soul that needs to be rediscovered and understood, loved and respected.
Duccio Nacci
