In memory of Diego Planeta

My professional life has not been hard:  it has been a pleasurable challenge and a taste of redemption, and perhaps the thing that helped me most was patience, so simply defined by Giacomo Leopardi as “the most heroic of virtues, just because it does not have anything heroic“

This is the opening of the Lectio Magistralis entitled: „ Vino e metamorfosi del territorio. Una Case History: Menfi e le Terre Sicane“ (Wine and the metamorphosis of the territory. A Case History: Menfi and the Terre Sicane). It was 2004 and this story was being told during the awarding of an Honorary degree to cultivator Diego Planeta by the Università degli Studi di Palermo.

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