Elzeviros

In twentieth-century Italian newspapers, this was the name given to the third-page article, the one in the upper left-hand corner. Those two narrow columns hosted distinguished writers and, later on, prominent journalists.

Among the genres it embraced, the elzeviro soon developed a special vocation for travel writing: the resulting pieces were not ordinary practical reports, but impressions bordering on the lyrical, portraits of places and people shaped by a pen that seemed almost like a paintbrush in its vividness. The elzeviro had become a way of telling a journey unhurriedly, with exquisite attention to both language and observation. This is where the The Travelling Elzeviro begins.

A space in which photography and text pursue and support each other with a single, shared aim: to convey the travel experience in its fullness. To be, as someone once said, “the eyes, the ears, the nose of the one who stayed at home.”