The young woman who, between 1951 and 1954, maintains a dense correspondence with the Italian-Swiss poet and scholar of Dante, Remo Fassani, is not yet called Christina Campo: names, works, and fate are still in their early stages.

Here, the brilliance of themes and discoveries is unveiled, in the decisive choice of both to pursue beauty and truth. Vittoria Guerini meets Remo Fassani in Florence: a friendship is born, centered on the shared enjoyment of reading, works of art, music, moments of life, writings, poems, and images.

"I never feel so rooted to my land as when I see it in the eyes of this Swiss," Christina Campo would write to a friend a few years later.