Storia del nudismo

Through essential texts and a rich color photographic insert, this book tells the nudity-naturism of women and men from the birth of the naturist idea to today and arises from the need to represent a right – that of living naked – perceived as a timid conquest for a country always poised between tolerance and repression. The history of nude-naturism in Italy is the metaphor of that “beach of freedom” which is the Bassona in Ravenna, a historic nudist beach, which after years of successes and conflicts today has almost more opponents than in the past, because someone is always lurking among the dunes of Bassona, but above all among the mental dunes of the old conformism. Although ours is a Catholic country only on paper and democratic only when convenient, the third millennium has opened with the