The author of The uselessness of the useless in the memory of a Spanish colleague. In Taormina, the land that looks like a sea, on the way to Greece, I asked Nuccio Ordine three years ago what the destination was, where it was taking us.
He took us to the sea of Cavafis, he said, and then began to recite, walking, the verses of the Greek poet. Without him, as animator of the classical world, he would not have reached the actuality that he gave.