lllustration born for a group of friends, the result of endless chatter and in particular Lorenzo’s tale: warm summer afternoons of childhood, amid mosquitoes and barleywort, spent playing Briscola with grandfather and his friends.
Cathartic moment each time the ace of spades was dropped to the exclamation of “SCANZAPELO!”
The perplexity of the child who, having caught the not even too veiled hint, finds himself instantly an adult.
How to teach life beyond playing cards!
