Traveling by bike allows you to observe the world around us at a different pace, with different eyes. The journey itself becomes a way to get to know better landscapes and people, and ourselves at the same time. All this can be found in the book by Silvia Veronese, a professional journalist who in “Com-moto” (Proget Edizioni) tells about her experience behind a very special steering wheel.

The story is the one of a strong woman who at forty-four decides to learn how to drive the bike, challenging the commonplace and social conventions still well rooted in the small village at the foot of the Euganean Hills where she lives. An interest originally born for love, but grew up to become a true passion, leading her to face the road on a high-powered engine, much more massive then her tiny fifty kilos.

The book

Courage and determination are travel companions across Italy, through thousands of miles where the landscape always tells a different story; virtually a dream, for a professional writer. Notebook always at hand, collects suggestions, impressions, stories and testimonies that are then poured into this book.

It is a varied book, that features different narrative styles as well as heterogeneous are the ideas from which they were born. The poetry of the landscapes is intertwined with the prose of the tale, and there is also a small part of reportage dedicated to Emilia’s earthquake, in which the journalist’s voice can be heard louder. The title, moreover, anticipates the multiformity of the book from its semantic ambiguity: commoto is the past participle of the Latin verb commoveo, moved, that here we find, however, written with a dash between the two ems, which immediately refers to the young girl the cover, driving a motorcycle.

The book is aimed at women and men who are fond of motorcycles and a style of traveling free and attentive. Suitable for those who love poetry and astonishment and for those who are not afraid of challenging conventions even when it brings benefits or rewards; It is for those who know how to listen and stand still in front of a sunset and a look.

The author

Silvia Veronese, born in Este in 1967, graduated in Italian stylistics and metrics. She is a journalist, head of press office and communications, head of the National Confederation of Handicrafts in Padua. She has published “L’eco dell’aria” (The Echo of Air) (2011), a collection on poems.