Milano

The book starts off with a brief history by Gianni Guadalupi and Gabriele Reina, followed by an iconographic section made up of large-scale colour images of views and details which even the most alert visitors may have missed, and which seem new and mysterious in their perfection, investigated as, perhaps, they were once seen by the painter, sculptor or mere stone mason who extracted them from the shapeless block of material to offer them to those who would admire them. Following a clockwork spiral movement from outside to inside, we feel like we are entering the very heart of Milan – the innermost, secret part invisible to rushed tourists tiredly following the umbrellas of tour guides who take them around and keep them together.