Fabrizia Ramondino's Passaggio a Trieste Republished in New Edition for 2026

Fabrizia Ramondino's Passaggio a Trieste, first issued by Einaudi in 2000, returns in a newly designed edition in 2026. The book borrows its title from Walt Whitman's 1869 poem Passage to India, which hailed the Suez Canal as a passage toward the exotic East. Trieste serves as the narrative gateway to the unknown, a city where borders, History and personal stories intersect, and where the 180 law and Franco Basaglia's democratic psychiatry reshaped the twentieth century. Reaching Ramondino's Trieste requires moving through the city itself, past its comfortable drawing room and the seafront square, without fearing to go deeper. The article is by Gioia Battista and Anita Romanello, published by Doppiozero on Thursday, 22 October 2026.