LUCA TREVISAN presents his book "THE BREATH OF THE FOREST" in Asiago - 4 August 2021

"Aperitif with the author" at forte Interrotto organized by the Giunti al Punto Library with Asiago Film Festival

Wednesday, August 4, 2021,the literary review"Aperitivo con l'autore",organized by the Giunti al Punto di Asiago bookstore,offers an appointment in collaboration with the Asiago Film Festival.

The meeting will be held in the evocative setting of the Interrupted Fort in Asiago,at 5.30 pm,and will have as a guest Luca Trevisan who will present his book"The breath of the forest. The mountains of the city of Vicenza on the Plateau of the Seven Municipalities".

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The reservation allows access to the reserved area and, only in case of bad weather,to the first 170 reservations, the entrance to the Palazzo del Turismo Millepini.

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BOOK "IL RESPIRO DEL BOSCO. The mountains of the city of Vicenza on the Plateau of the Seven Municipalities" -Cierre Edizioni

Preface by Gian Maria Varanini. With the collaboration of Tarcisio Bellò, Egidio Fontana.

Through the examination of unpublished documentation and procedural papers, this book reconstructs an authentic intrigue. In the thirteenth century the city of Vicenza had the so-called "high area" of the Plateau ofthe Seven Municipalities: an impervious mountain range above the Valsugana that will become the subject of bitter clashes between Venetians and imperials after the annexation of the Plateau to the Republic of Venice (1405).

In the mountains of Vicenza the pastures were rented to private tenants, while in the woods it was allowed to the inhabitants of the Plateau of the Seven Municipalities to obtain wood for personal use.

Were these rules always respected? What happened when the city, at the end of the sixteenth century, began to encourage a policy of commercial exploitation of forests? Why did the Seven Municipalities come to produce a false privilege through which to attribute ownership of the mountains of Vicenza?

This book reinterprets and rewrites a very delicate chapter of history related to the relations between the city of Vicenza and the Regency of the Seven Municipalities. Against the background of the Venetian institutional panorama and within the broader coordinates of the international context, microhistory and macrohistory intertwine, to the point of illustrating, in the final analysis, how the mountains of Vicenza were annexed to the Seven Municipalities.

ASIAGO FILM FESTIVAL

TheAsiago Film Festival has as its main objective to propose the best Italian and foreign naturalistic films and documentaries and to contribute to film education through exhibitions and social events related to environmental protection.

The Festival is also aimed at promoting the city of Asiago and the beauties of the entire highland territory,through the deepening of the themes related to its history and its traditions.

The Asiago International Film Festival APS was established in 2020 as a non-profit association with social promotion, inspired by these principles and love for cinema.