An open project · 2020 – 2026
The Serpent’s Thousand Bites
In 2020 the world came to a halt. Six years later, anyone who went through that winter can tell it in their own words, in one minute.
Why these stories
From the book to the city: The Serpent’s Thousand Bites gathers the voices of people who lived through the Covid winter in Bergamo and elsewhere. Each testimony adds a fragment to the story told by The Serpent’s Nights.
The Serpent’s Nights tells that winter from Orio al Serio Airport: a place of arrivals and departures, a threshold between Bergamo and the world, which for a time became a refuge for people left alone as everything stopped.
The book gave rise to a project open to anyone who lived through the time of Covid, in Bergamo or anywhere else: a thousand people, a thousand voices, one minute to say what they lived, felt, and still carry with them.
Short, simple stories, without rhetoric: personal fragments gathered six years later, to listen to what time has not erased.
How it works
One question, many voices
Listen
Each story is a short video on YouTube, in Italian.
Remember
One question: what has stayed with you from that winter?
Read
The novella that started it all: The Serpent’s Nights.
The stories
Voices from that winter
Coming soon
The first stories are on their way
I’m meeting people and recording their stories. They will appear here, one by one. In the meantime, watch the book’s reel and follow the channel so you don’t miss them.
Where were you in 2020?
Your voice matters too
Wherever you lived through that period, you can tell your story in one minute. Write to me on WhatsApp: we’ll talk it over calmly, and you decide what to share.
Every story is told with respect: you only share what you want to share.
The book behind the project
The Serpent's Nights
Bergamo, winter 2020. While the city counts its dead, a small group of homeless people keeps living inside Orio al Serio Airport. A story of dignity and small gestures, with ten charcoal illustrations.
Where to read, hear and follow me
Book talks, a podcast and reels, mostly in Italian: I don’t tell you what I write, I let you see and hear it.