Orizzonti Creativi - Putting Your Nose into Literature

As part of the Orizzonti Creativi Festival, Barbara Ricci and Mara Battisti explore the connection between smell, memory and literature.

Scents and fragrances directly stimulate the brain's most ancient areas — those of instinct and emotion — activating memories and nostalgia without the filter of rationality. The talk investigates how literature can restore the act of smelling to its rightful place as a genuine process of knowledge, starting from a thought-provoking idea: smell is the soul of things.