The text Basilico wrote in 2010 and performed on two evenings at the Teatro No’hma in Milan, reissued in full: for him, as Giovanna Calvenzi says, "the occasion to give form and order to reflections he had long been organising in different ways". His words are a vibrant testimony, a declaration of love for his city and for cities in general, a deep reflection on his work and on the daily practice of a lucid observer of metropolitan space: an aware statement of how photography, "even above all in its documentary function and mission, has inevitably to do with beauty, with a visual need for formal interpretation, an aesthetic translation of the world". The text comes with pictures by and of Basilico, an afterword and a reasoned biography.