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In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.
Alex Belli is a 37 year old advertising executive whose fiancée Elena has just left him, and who is having difficulty at work trying to think of a good advertising campaign for a new Japanese product. Niki is a bubbly 17 year old student. She has three best friends with whom she shares all her problems, and an annoying ex-boyfriend Fabio who is set on getting her back, but Niki's not interested. One day on his way to work, Alex collides with Niki on a city street. They soon begin a romance, despite their 20-year age gap.
1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary uprisings in the monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the following fifty years.
This is the story of Gianenzo, national junior champion in chess, drawing, singing, music theory, arithmetic, piano, and chemistry. Always tied with his arch enemies: Luigifausta, the true queen of quizzes, and Pancraziomaria, the infallible devourer of dates. Gianenzo is the fastest at calculating, but will this ensure him the final victory?
