A meridian gives us back the thousand faces of Leon Battista Alberti

In the film Quo Vado Checco Zalone, an official in a provincial hunting and fishing office, in a scene that serves to explain the difference between extortion and corruption, gets quails as a gift. Also Leon Battista Albertihumanist, among the greatest Renaissance architectsreceived from Ludovico Gonzaga, lord of Mantua, of the quails, and considered this gift as a great sign of personal success. But this is not the only parallel that serves to shorten the centuries and to show that from 1400 to today things haven’t changed much, and that if you receive quail as a gift it means that your career is going great. Considering the devices and the technological revolutions in communication, we tend to try the false nostalgia for a mythical past in which humility reigned in the hearts of individuals and where the demons of selfism, self-storytelling and the creation of a false narrative of the self still didn’t tempt us.