TIZIANO FRATUS
( special guests )

Tiziano Fratus (Bergamo, 1975) lives in a house facing the forest. A rustic Buddhist and nomadic editor, over the last quarter of a century he has pilgrimaged through majestic forests, meditating in the hollow trunks of giant Californian sequoias as well as monumental chestnut and olive trees. He has traversed nature reserves, historic parks, botanical gardens, and coined concepts such as Homo Radix, Silva itinerans, and Dendrosofia, about which he has written in reports and articles for newspapers and magazines – including "La Stampa", "la Repubblica", "il manifesto", "Natural Style" and "La Verità" – and discussed on radio programs. In twenty years of dedication to writing, Tiziano Fratus has published over forty titles, including poetry, travelogues, two novels, stories, photographs, essays, a fable, and chapters of a single great "silvario between paper and bark". Among his books are Giona delle sequoie (Bompiani), L’Italia è un bosco (Laterza), Alberi millenari d’Italia (Gribaudo), Ogni albero è un poeta (Mondadori), Manuale del perfetto cercatore di alberi (Feltrinelli), Il bosco è un mondo (Einaudi), Sogni di un disegnatore di fiori di ciliegio (Aboca), I giganti silenziosi (Bompiani), Sutra degli alberi (Piano B), Il libro delle foreste scolpite (Laterza), Poesie creaturali (LDN), Il sussurro degli alberi (Ediciclo), L’Italia è un giardino (Laterza), Waldo Basilius (Pelledoca) and Agreste (Piano B). His poetry has been translated into eleven languages and published in twenty countries. He is the voice of the great trees for the program «Geo» on Rai 3 and for the podcast series «Radio Arbor – Gli alberi parlano». His website is Studiohomoradix.com.