THE GARDEN THAT DOESN'T EXIST

It is an extraordinary garden that never existed, a fictitious place that lives in memories. When, in 1962, Giorgio Bassani published "The Garden of the Finzi-Contini", Italy had not yet plunged into the darkness of its Fascist period. Infused with the youth of the novelist and poet, this pioneering work, an unexpected bestseller, depicts a love story, in 1938, within the Jewish bourgeoisie of Ferrara on the eve of its annihilation. Through the pages of the novel "The Garden of the Finzi-Contini", which Vittorio De Sica adapted for the cinema, a nostalgic journey to Ferrara, between reality and fiction, in the footsteps of its author, the Italian writer Giorgio Bassani.