Quando fuori piove. Storia e futuro della pioggia

Vincenzo Levizzani takes us on a discovery of one of the most relevant phenomena not only for the life of the planet itself, but also for the cultural, religious, and artistic systems of the whole of humanity: rain. From the universal biblical flood to the shamanic dances to invoke it, from the cult of Giove Pluvio to Pre-Colombian civilisations: humanity has always had an awareness of the importance of and the mystique of rain. And also of its destructive potential. Starting with culture and art and arriving at science and meteorology, Levizzani tells us everything that we could ever wish to know about rain. Of its past and future, of what drought and storms mean for the Earth’s tomorrow, of what they generate, and how they change the world around us.