Capalbio Books, Hoara Borselli discusses "Nothing Is as It Seems" by Giulia Ligresti. Tamburrino presents "Fin qui" by Fabrizio Ferri.

Final acquitted after six years, Giulia Ligresti spent approximately forty days in pre-trial detention in Vercelli. She was charged with false accounting and stock market manipulation in the FonSai ( Fondiaria Sai) case. "How can you not feel angry about what happened to you?" asks Hoara Borselli , a regular on Nicola Porro 's program Quarta Repubblica . "Anger isn't a feeling I have. I don't feel it about what happened to me," Ligresti explains, "because it's a feeling that doesn't help me move forward peacefully and serves no purpose. I want to be a happy person. I have many memories of my days in prison; I met people I bonded with, who helped me step by step, while I felt like a caged lion. A civil lawsuit has been underway since 2019 for compensation."

Ligresti 's story is told in an intimate memoir, Nothing Is as It Seems. My Story: The Power of Truth (Piemme), which retraces the events she was involved in, forcefully bringing to light her family ties, her humanitarian work, and the strength that has always sustained her over the years.

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What is the power of truth in her book? "The truth can only be told by those who have experienced it firsthand," Ligresti explains. "That's what I do in the book. In life, I work a lot with people in need through an organization, and I do it especially in disaster-stricken countries. I've been to Afghanistan and Gaza . In September, I'm going to Syria . I work on humanitarian projects to help children and women." Ligresti's perspective on minorities is a fundamental part of her daily life and has been for many years. "I pay close attention to the women in the countries where I work, who very often don't know what freedom is. It's a condition I lacked for a certain period of time."

An intense, compelling life story, written in a modern and powerful style. This is how Borselli tells the Capalbio Libri audience: Nothing is as it seems.

Yesterday's meeting was exciting and authentic, with Michela Tamburrino , a professional journalist and consultant for the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris for international institutional relations and the organization of special events, and a collaborator with the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris , interviewing Fabrizio Ferri , an internationally renowned photographer but also a director, composer, writer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, on the stage of Capalbio Libri .

In Fin qui, published by Rizzoli, she retraces the meaning of photography in her life, with important shots and significant encounters. "A photographer who gives his all through photography in a refined and simple way," says Tamburrino, "and with the gift of doing everything as if it were simple. Seeing his photos helps you get to know Ferri, to enter his world capable of creating magic." The connection between Tamburrino and Ferri, on the stage of Capalbio Libri , accompanies a special encounter, of light, images, and words, and recounts a friendship that has lasted forty years.

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Ferri is generous, luminous, and speaks to the audience, who follow him attentively and with no small amount of admiration. "I became a photographer almost by chance. A classmate of mine, Francesco, known as Ciccio , had fallen in love with the idea of building a darkroom and invited us friends to take some photos that he would print. I was going to the May Day celebrations. I had a camera, and I had a gentleman with three cameras around his neck help me adjust the dial. Then I stopped at the front of the protesters. I took a photo only when my attention fell on a man and his family, in their pose: there were three heads: the man with his son on his shoulders, whose head rested on his father's, and the wife on her mother's shoulders. A clear image, and behind the crowd of San Giovanni. The man who walked away had waved good luck. This photo of mine was bought by Paese Sera, and it went around the world." Thus was born the photographer Fabrizio Ferri , that day and with that photo.

Today he is internationally famous and boasts of having photographed names such as Isabella Rossellini in New York, Sting in Pantelleria, Monica Bellucci, Carla Bruni and many other great personalities, but without ever giving up simplicity and respect, his main characteristics and which he cannot give up.

"Today everything has changed," Ferri admitted. "We find ourselves with a profession that seems no longer useful. Everyone takes photographs and does it well. For me, the profession is to photograph, therefore to translate what I feel inside myself into something before me. But photography today must become art, otherwise it dies."

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