from
8 JULY
to
30 AUGUST
2025

Orto dei Semplici Elbano,
Rio nell’Elba (LI)

Eremo di Santa Caterina

The covers germinated thanks to young users of mental health services & kids on the autism spectrum. Thanks to the social cooperatives Altamarea & Arca – with the supervision of Lorenzo Scacchia & Francesco Marino (curator at Orto dei Semplici Elbano) – the kids who coauthored the covers took part in photographic trips to the garden.

Following individual meetings with Scacchia, each of them chose a photograph & coined the corresponding title. Elements he then harmonised into a graphic dress in order to create the exhibited covers.
The prints were displayed in direct contact with the soil, in the area dedicated to wild Elban plants. Plants at that time in aestivation, a form of adaptation to high temperatures.

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The prize-giving for the literary competition was held on 22 November 2025, at Teatro Garibaldi in Rio nell’Elba.

POETRY
Joint first prize: Grazia Chiavacci, Luca Dimasi | Second prize: Luca Magnano

PROSE
First prize: Virga Pratesi | Second prize: Sonia Cocchi | Third prize: Elisa Di Alessandro

Florilegium of works

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This edition is part of the project Fito-sociologia: dal recupero alla convivenza del territorio, promoted by Elba Officinale ETS.
[Hereafter, the Italian wording regarding the funding]
Ed è realizzata grazie al bando Siete Presente. Giovani e associazionismo. Ed. 2025, a valere sul progetto Giovanisì crescere nel presente, promosso dal Cesvot e finanziato da Regione Toscana – Giovanisì, in accordo con la Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri Dipartimento per le Politiche Giovanili e il Servizio Civile Universale, con il contributo della Fondazione Livorno.

Printing of covers


Saal Digital

Grant of prizes (publications, where not specified)


Associazione Buggiano Castello

Borgo Plantarum
(tickets to the gardening show)

Casa editrice Leo S. Olschki

Edizioni Centro Di

Florence Art Edizioni

Graphe.it

H-earth
(clothing)

MardiLibri

Selvatiche Edizioni

Jury


Monica Giannini

Celeste Nicoletti

Patrizia Lupi

Massimo Scelza

Monica Zanon

Thanks to Francesco Marino
& to the Jury
& to:
Antonio Basile ~ Silvia Boano ~ Luca Braglia ~ Martina Brusaferro ~ Sara Campidonico ~ Carlo Contesso ~ Enrico Coturri ~ Daniel Crivaro ~ Letizia Di Quirico ~ Nello Frosali ~ Giulia Guadagna ~ Mattia Guerrini ~ Giulia Guidi ~ Danilo Lanfredi ~ Annacarla Pibia ~ Salvina Pizzuoli ~ Francesco Porro ~ Roberto Russo ~ Emiliano Santi ~ Federica Saracino ~ Iris Simari ~ Francesco Spinelli ~ Silvia Tozzi ~ Federica Trudu ~ Gaetano Viviani
& to:
Nadir Magazine
tuttatoscanalibri.com
tuttatoscana.net
TVlibera