Il ramo d'oro. Un giallo delle origini

Virgil, the great poet who loved and was loved by Naples, where his tomb is located, had in his name—Publius Vergilius Maro—an anagram of "branch" (Maro-Branchus). That branch that for two thousand years scholars believed was a "mistletoe branch"; whose leaves crackled lightly in the wind, and from which Aeneas uprooted the slow-growing twig. From this intuition, Schifano's passionate and "ardent" excursus on the history, poetry, and literature of the ancient land of the Phlegraean Fields begins, discovering the intimate greeting, the thought to origins and childhood that the great Virgil wished to leave between the lines of his immortal works.