Introduction

I saw the monument erected in Turin in honor of the portentous Cenisio tunnel and I imagined this choreographic composition Luigi Manzotti* * The epigraph is drawn from Luigi Manzotti, Excelsior: azione coreografica, storica, allegorica, fantastica in 6 parti e 11 quadri, musica di Romualdo Marenco (Milan: Regio Stabilimento Ricordi, 1881), 1...