The Way. In the Footsteps of St. Francis

You became a wanderer; no one asked your name because your legs grew for the paths. Among the isolated houses—alone—you asked the price of a room: it was so little compared to the solitude you found again.

Luigi Finucci (Fermo, 1984) has published three children's books, in rhyme, for Giaconi Editore: The Aspiring Astronaut in 2015, The Country of Artisans in 2018 and The World Below in 2021. He has also published two books of poetry: The First Times There Was No Tiredness, Eretica Edizioni in 2016, and The Song of Waiting, Ladolfi Editore in 2018.
In 2022, "CAMMINO - sulle orme di San Francesco" (Walk - In the Footsteps of Saint Francis), an illustrated book of his poems, was published by Giaconi Editore. He won the 25th edition of the "Poesia di Strada" (Street Poetry) competition. He collaborates with several magazines, and some of his poems have been translated into several languages, including Romanian and Spanish.

Federico Buratti was born in San Severino Marche on October 1, 1988, and has been drawing for as long as he can remember. He graduated from the Istituto
He studied at the State Art School in Fermo, majoring in interior architecture, and then moved to Milan where he enrolled at ACME, majoring in comics and illustration.
He works as a comic book colorist for some Italian and foreign projects including "Xolot and the war of the worlds" published with
Shockdom Editions. In 2018, he attended Ars in Fabula in Macerata to focus on children's illustration, starting to work as a freelance illustrator.