Toni Maraini (Antonella Maraini), is an Art historian, a writer and a poet. Between 1964 and 1987, she has lived in Morocco where she taught at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and at the Institut de communication audiovisuelle in Casablanca, as well as at the University of Rabat. In Morocco she took part to several cultural initiatives, carried out important researches and published many articles and essays. In Rome she has directed the Moravia Foundation, translated several writers and poets and published countless articles, reviews, essays, and several books. A major work which gathers moments of Toni Maraini's life in Morocco, her reflections on the country traditions and the meetings with the most remarkable Moroccan artists and intellectuals between 1960 and 1980, written in a brilliant and poetic way. In this book, Toni Maraini, who has been married to the artist painter Melehi and has never freed herself of Moroccois bonds, pays a most beautiful tribute to the country.