WILLIAM BLAKE
SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE

Italian version by
GIUSEPPE CONTE

Art by
MIMMO PALADINO

Publisher
LAMBERTO FABBRI

by
I QUADERNI DEL CIRCOLO DEGLI ARTISTI

Director - Cinematographer - Editor
SAMANTHA CASELLA

Music
PINO JODICE

Partially filmed at the Renzo Savini House Museum, July 2025

RENZO SAVINI HOUSE MUSEUM

Renzo Savini, the creator of this astonishing and precious collection of highly crafted artifacts and naturalistic finds, didn't like to be called a collector. He sought out, collected, and often stored his treasures without ever having to display them to anyone. Numerous literary works focus on characters who make collecting a fundamental part of their lives. Kaspar Utz, the protagonist of Bruce Chatwin's celebrated novel, from a very young age exclusively focused his life on the study and acquisition of Meissen ceramics, an attitude his family doctor considered a "perversion." His entire life revolved around this love, which led him to collect entire crates full of these small ceramics without examining their contents, becoming a prisoner of his own immense collection. For him, collecting personally means giving life to objects that would otherwise die in a crystallizing museum display case. "Private possession gives the owner the right and the need to touch what he or she speaks by name. Thus, the passionate collector returns to the object, eyes in harmony with hand, the vivifying touch of its creator."

Excerpt from the text by Maria Katia Tufano