Condemned by its origin and by its definition, the word light, and the corresponding noun 'lightness', despite the efforts of Cicero and Nietzsche, and after the explosion of consumer music - the so-called light music, in fact - had to wait the end of the 20th century to be re-evaluated or at least seen in a different light.
The credit goes to Italo Calvino and the first of his American lessons.
But Vasco Rossi also has something to tell us.