Protagonists
Franco Farinelli
(1948, Ortona) is director of the Department of Philosophy and Communication at the University of Bologna, and president of the Association of Italian Geographers (Agei). He has taught at the Universities of Geneva, Los Angeles (UCLA), Berkeley, and in Paris at the Sorbonne and the École Normale Supérieure. His books include: Geografia and Crisi della ragione cartografica, both published by Einaudi. He edited the new Italian edition of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions by A. von Humboldt (Quodlibet/Humboldt scheduled for publication in late August 2014).