At Giunti Odeon the traditional Sunday appointment with the great Disney and Pixar classics! To see and see again the great animated films that over many years have enchanted generations of viewers, young and old!

At Giunti Odeon,

Valentina Barile, Paolo Di Paolo, Carlotta Fruttero, Leonardo Gori, Lia Levi, Sacha Naspini, Anna Prandoni, Alessandro Raveggi, Vanni Santoni, Marco Vichi, Christine Von Borries, and Paola Zannoner
will present the volume Etichette Buchette – Storie di vini immaginari (BDV Editions). Following the presentation, in the Hall of Mirrors on the 1st floor, will be the official opening of the namesake photographic exhibition, on view from November 7 to 20, 2025.
Free admission every day from 10:00 AM to 8:30 PM.

The Exhibition and the Book

Twelve labels of imaginary wines are paired with twelve buchette del vino (wine windows) of Florence.

Each label, placed on an empty bottle, was photographed inside or beside one of these historic wine windows in Florence’s old town.

These same labels—and thus the imaginary wines they evoke—became sources of inspiration for twelve professional writers whose stories are collected in the book Etichette Buchette (BDV Editions).

The exhibition is conceived and curated by Lorenzo Scacchia (Incipitojo) and Matteo Faglia (President of the Associazione Buchette del Vino and publisher of the book).

Supported by: Ruffino, Babae, Café Odeon, and Vetreria Etrusca.

About Etichette Buchette (also known as EtiBu)

Etichette Buchette was born from the meeting of the creative worlds of Lorenzo Scacchia and Matteo Faglia.

Incipitojo has, since 2019, exhibited imaginary book covers, inviting visitors to imagine what unwritten pages might contain and to write, in poetry or prose, freely inspired by those covers.

The Associazione Buchette del Vino, founded in Florence in 2015, is dedicated to these small architectural openings—originally “invented” in the late 1500s to sell wine by the flask directly from the palaces of noble families who produced it in the countryside around the city.

The first step of EtiBu was an invitation to twelve authors. Each chose one of Scacchia’s labels, “tasted” the imaginary wine, and wrote a story inspired by it—completely freely, with only one guideline: a length of about 10,000 characters.

Thus, images and imagination come together to explore the world of wine.

The following writers took part in the project:
Valentina Barile, Paolo Di Paolo, Carlotta Fruttero, Leonardo Gori, Lia Levi, Sacha Naspini, Anna Prandoni, Alessandro Raveggi, Vanni Santoni, Marco Vichi, Christine Von Borries, and Paola Zannoner.

Their stories are collected in a volume published by BDV Editions (an imprint of the Associazione Buchette del Vino), with design and layout by Simonetta Scaglione.

The Photographs

Another key component of EtiBu is the series of photographic portraits by Lorenzo Scacchia, set in Florence and featured in this exhibition.
Each label was applied to an empty bottle kindly provided by Vetreria Etrusca.

Scacchia and Faglia spent a day wandering on both sides of the Arno, pairing each label with a wine window—and in most cases involving unsuspecting passersby in the creation of the scene: their hands, arms, and bodies became an essential part of the photographs.

Each portrait in the exhibition is accompanied by:

• the address of the wine window (and the name of the palace, if relevant),

• information about the window,

• the name of the bottle model,

• and the opening lines of the corresponding story.

A panel displays all twelve empty bottles.

The photographs are also included in the book, which thus serves as the exhibition’s catalog.

Incipitojo

{for the purpose of imaginative wandering}

An exhibition of imaginary book covers. Visitors are invited to imagine what words those yet-unwritten pages might contain and to compose their own poetry or prose inspired by the covers—thus retracing, in reverse, the usual editorial process in which the cover comes last.

Created and curated by Lorenzo Scacchia, the project—while orbiting around the same founding idea—adapts its form to each hosting venue and its collaborations. It often includes literary contests, and sometimes the covers are created through social inclusion workshops.

Writing occasionally takes place on seed paper, later planted elsewhere, weaving connections between writers and sowers.

🔗 incipitojo.it
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🔗 instagram.com/hauchnebelkabinett

The Associazione Buchette del Vino

Founded in Florence in October 2015 and presided over by Matteo Faglia, the Association’s mission is to survey, study, document, promote, and safeguard a heritage unique to Tuscany: a network of small architectural openings once used for selling wine directly from producers to consumers of every social class.

The buchette del vino originated and spread only in Florence and the territory of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany from the late 1500s onward. Created to sell wine by the flask directly from noble palaces, they fell into disuse by the mid-1900s and were gradually forgotten—until their rediscovery in 2019, with the reopening of one at Babae in Via Santo Spirito. Since then, a dozen other venues have reinterpreted the tradition, offering the unique experience of enjoying a glass of wine served through a small window onto the street.

The ongoing census now records nearly 300 wine windows across Tuscany.
Through its website and social media channels, the Association shares updates on its discoveries, research, guided tours, video tours, “wine window hunts,” and other initiatives.

🔗 buchettedelvino.org
🔗 facebook.com/buchettedelvino
🔗 instagram.com/buchettedelvino

At Giunti Odeon the traditional Sunday appointment with all the great Disney and Pixar classics! To see and see again the great animated films that over many years have enchanted generations of viewers, young and old!

Navid Tarazi, known as Doggodaiily, will take the stage at GO alongside our Artistic Director Gabriele Ametrano to talk about his book Posso fare una foto al tuo cane? (Mondadori).

The Book

“Can I take a picture of your dog?” — this is the question that now echoes through the streets of Turin. Whether mixed-breed or purebred, it doesn’t matter: in an instant, Navid Tarazi, known as Doggodaiily, turns them into web superstars.

“This book was born from thousands of encounters along Italian streets and squares. Every photo opens a door to a story: adoptions that change destinies, bonds built through walks and care, wounds healed by trust.

The images are accompanied by short stories, often told in the dogs’ own voices, to reveal what the eyes can’t show — fears, joys, little secrets shared with humans. It’s not a catalog of breeds, but a mosaic of relationships: from the neighborhood dog to the companion rescued from a shelter in Spain or Ireland, to the elderly dogs who teach us patience.

I chose an honest and gentle gaze: no sensationalism, just real encounters, natural light, real cities. Leafing through it means walking with me, pausing, asking permission, listening. If you love dogs, you’ll find gratitude. If you love people, you’ll discover that behind every leash there’s a whole world. This is an invitation to look more closely at the four-legged presences that share our lives.”

The Author

NAVID TARAZI, photographer and storyteller, is the creator of Doggodaiily on Instagram and TikTok. Originally from Iran, he moved to Italy in September 2022 and is currently studying Environmental Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Turin.
His curiosity leads him into the streets — at dogs’ eye level. Four months after his arrival, he began photographing them, transforming an old fear into a special connection. With a camera and a kind question, he collects authentic portraits of trust between people and their four-legged friends.

At Giunti Odeon the traditional Sunday appointment with the great Disney and Pixar classics! To see and see again the great animated films that over many years have enchanted generations of viewers, young and old!

At Giunti Odeon the traditional Sunday appointment with the great Disney and Pixar classics! To see and see again the great animated films that over many years have enchanted generations of viewers, young and old!

Exactly fifty years after Pier Paolo Pasolini's tragic death, five meetings dedicated to the great director will allow participants to venture into one of the most original and exciting authorial journeys in the entire history of cinema. Pasolini explored the possibilities of cinematic language from a very personal point of view, defining it as “the written language of reality”, capable of showing the changes and contradictions of Italian society at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. This research brings together some of Pasolini's great cultural influences, including Marxism, religion, myth, the body and painting, which were never separate from one another.

Meeting 3: The City of God

The Gospel According to Matthew (1964) represents Pasolini's first film-world, summarising his poetics and style in the first half of the 1960s, as well as the aesthetic and moral form of his idea of cinema. A film in the form of a sacred magmatic representation, where Marxism, Christianity and humanism give shape to a Gospel devoid of rhetoric, with an anarchic Christ above reason, in a South where the signs of the sacredness of life can still be glimpsed.

Our beloved GO Book Club will take the stage to welcome Rachel Khong with the presentation of this month’s featured book: Real Ameericans. For the occasion, the author will be in conversation with Samuele Massini.

The Book

Real Americans is a family saga spanning three generations and two continents, exploring the boundaries between social class and ambition, roots and legacy, science and nature. Rachel Khong shows us that the future can be shaped by those who have the courage and power to invent it, while happiness is a gift of the present—available to those who embrace life’s unpredictable simplicity.

It’s the eve of the new millennium in New York when Lily Chen, a 22-year-old intern at an online magazine, meets Matthew. He is everything she is not: carefree, charming, a true New Yorker—and heir to a pharmaceutical empire. Lily, by contrast, is a small-town girl with no money, the daughter of immigrant scientists who fled Mao’s Cultural Revolution and found in the United States the opportunity to pursue cutting-edge genetic research.
Despite their differences, Lily and Matthew fall deeply in love, and their union gives birth to Nick. Years later, in 2021, Nick—now fifteen—lives in Washington State with his mother, who has always denied him the chance to meet his father. Determined to uncover the truth, the boy secretly sets out to find him, risking dangerous revelations about his past and his family’s identity.

The Author

Rachel Khong grew up in Southern California and graduated from Yale University and the University of Florida. Her stories and essays have appeared in Joyland, American Short Fiction, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Believer, and California Sunday.
Her novels include Goodbye, Vitamin (NN Editore, 2019) and Real Americans (NN Editore, 2025).

Stefano Tiozzo, in conversation with Swami Akash, will talk about his latest book Dalla mente al cuore. La ricerca della felicità secondo lo yoga della devozione (Sperling & Kupfer).

The Book:
What does it truly mean to be happy? And where can we find that sense of balance that so often seems to slip away amidst the demands of everyday life, our disappointments and hopes, our dreams and the clash with reality?

Stefano Tiozzo — photographer, documentary filmmaker, and content creator — has decided to share his story, starting from the universal human experience of moving through cycles of fleeting joys and deep sorrows, to the realization that if the cause of our ongoing suffering lies outside of us, perhaps happiness must be sought within.

Through a spiritual journey rooted in Hindu devotional culture — thanks to a miraculous encounter with his spiritual teacher, Paramahamsa Vishwananda — the author traces an existential journey while also introducing the foundations of an ancient philosophical and religious tradition.

This is not a religious treatise or a theology manual, but rather an invitation to look within, through the eyes of a traveler who, despite journeying across the world, discovers that the most important path one can take is the one bridging the mind and the heart.

Tiozzo guides readers on an itinerary that intertwines personal narrative and spiritual discovery, explaining concepts such as dharma, karma, yoga, the role of spiritual masters, and the timeless teachings of the Bhagavad Gītā as tools for regaining direction and living with greater awareness.

A book for those seeking answers — or simply wishing to reach that inner peace that arises when we learn to see the world through the lens of love, following the principles of Bhakti Yoga, the yoga of devotion.

The Author:
STEFANO TIOZZO (born in Turin, 1985) is a landscape photographer, documentary filmmaker, and storyteller specializing in travel. After earning a degree in Dentistry and practicing for eight years, he left his medical career to dedicate his life to sharing the beauty and diversity of the world through his YouTube channel — one of Italy’s most popular travel-focused platforms.

He leads photographic expeditions to some of the world’s most fascinating places and teaches courses and lectures on the Bhagavad Gītā, which he studied under the guidance of his spiritual master, Paramahamsa Vishwananda.

He is the author of The Soul Travels One Step at a Time, A Choice of Love, and The Other Side of Russia (TS Edizioni), and contributed to Travel Blogger, a geography textbook for middle schools published by Mondadori Educational.

In 2022, he hosted the television series Storie di palazzi on La7.

Exactly fifty years after Pier Paolo Pasolini's tragic death, five meetings dedicated to the great director will allow participants to venture into one of the most original and exciting authorial journeys in the entire history of cinema. Pasolini explored the possibilities of cinematic language from a very personal point of view, defining it as “the written language of reality”, capable of showing the changes and contradictions of Italian society at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. This research brings together some of Pasolini's great cultural influences, including Marxism, religion, myth, the body and painting, which were never separate from one another.

Meeting 4: Utopias and disillusions

For Pasolini, the second half of the 1960s represented the decline of utopia in a country that the director saw as increasingly doomed to self-destruction. These were years of progressive and melancholic disillusionment: with Uccellacci e uccellini (The Hawks and the Sparrows, 1965), La Terra vista dalla Luna (The Earth Seen from the Moon, 1966) and Che cosa sono le nuvole? (1967), Pasolini explored the form of satirical allegory, while Teorema (1968) was the film that marked Pasolini's conscious intellectual isolation and definitive condemnation of the Italian bourgeoisie.

Stefania Zani will be at Giunti Odeon to present Siamo anima. Riconoscersi oltre il tempo: il disegno invisibile degli incontri che cambiano la vita (Piemme), together with Michela D’Inca.

The Book:
This book is a map for those who feel they are on a journey — an opportunity to reread one’s personal story in the light of the Soul’s eternity, discovering that every encounter, even the most painful, carries within it a possibility for transformation, and an invitation to listen to the silent voice that guides us beyond time.

Siamo anima is the fruit of a personal journey and years of spiritual research exploring life’s deepest mystery: who we truly are.
We do not possess a Soul — we are Soul, an eternal spark moving through lives and incarnations, traveling across experiences, relationships, and challenges in order to remember itself.

With an intimate and authentic voice, the author weaves together ancient wisdom, Kabbalah, spiritual traditions, and her own lived experience to guide us toward discovering the invisible design behind the encounters, separations, and soul recognitions that shape our destiny.

Within these pages we meet Soul Families, karmic bonds, Soul Sisters and Companions, and ultimately face the dizzying experience of meeting the Twin Flame — an event that shatters all certainties and propels us toward profound awakening.
Through synchronicities, trials, wounds, and gifts, the subtle threads connecting our lives emerge, revealing that nothing happens by chance.

The Author:
Stefania Zani is an Italian spiritual researcher. She studied aromatherapy and, in 2021, created Le Essenziali, a deck of cards inspired by essential oils and their connection to the psychic, emotional, and energetic dimensions of life.

In 2024, she founded Accademia Essenziale, a project that allows her to share her knowledge and help the many students who attend her courses to connect with their own Essence and bring it into the world.

She leads numerous seminars and workshops — both independently and in collaboration with other professionals — guiding each person to recognize themselves as Soul.

Highly followed on social media, she has a community of over 100,000 followers.
In 2025, she publishes with Piemme Siamo anima. Riconoscersi oltre il tempo: il disegno invisibile degli incontri che cambiano la vita.

Exactly fifty years after Pier Paolo Pasolini's tragic death, five meetings dedicated to the great director will allow participants to venture into one of the most original and exciting authorial journeys in the entire history of cinema. Pasolini explored the possibilities of cinematic language from a very personal point of view, defining it as “the written language of reality”, capable of showing the changes and contradictions of Italian society at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. This research brings together some of Pasolini's great cultural influences, including Marxism, religion, myth, the body and painting, which were never separate from one another.

Meeting 5: In search of the lost myth

In the last part of his career, Pasolini confronted one of the strongest cultural roots of his artistic and intellectual journey: Greek myth. First in Oedipus Rex (1969) and then in Medea (1970), Pasolini showed a strength and richness still available to man today, myth being the dark and vital core of lived experience. This theme continued in the three films of the “trilogy of life”, only to be interrupted in his last film, Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975).

The illustrator Elena Triolo will join us to present her book L'oro bianco. Il segreto rivelato (Gallucci Balloon).
Joining her on stage will be Livia Frescobaldi (President of Amici di Doccia), Oliva Rucellai (Chief Curator of the Ginori Museum), and Pierdomenico Baccalario, who will moderate the event.

The Book:
From the European courts to the Tuscan hills, the story of porcelain tells a journey through Italian craftsmanship — a tale of dreams, work, and passion.
Through the voices of six characters, blending reality and imagination, we relive the birth and development of the Ginori manufactory in a choral narrative that brings to life the beauty of this extraordinary material, capable of uniting eras and destinies.

The Author:
Born in 1988, Elena Triolo graduated in Comics and earned a degree in Art History.
She first gained recognition on social media, where she published a series of witty comic strips, and began collaborating with Hop! Edizioni, which led to several published works.

She has worked with the Galileo Museum in Florence, illustrating educational materials for museum learning, and has published with major Italian publishers including Kleiner Flug, BD, DeAgostini, Rizzoli, Hoepli, Giunti, Mondadori, and Sperling & Kupfer.