June 17, 2026
by Marco Beck Is a bouquet of roses enough to symbolically celebrate an anniversary so overflowing with emotional meanings and spiritual values such as the fiftieth wedding anniversary? Most husbands can certainly be satisfied with a simple floral gift to their wives. But not a poet rich in talent and feeling. This is why Angelo Lacchini gave Angela, his inseparable “wife for every day” (Ecclesiastes 9.9), inextricably united to him even in his homonymy, a corbeille of poems with an enigmatic title at first glance: Brasche (Borgomanero, preface by the publisher Giuliano Ladolfi, 2026, 106 pages, 10 euros). The author himself offers in limine a double interpretative key, linguistic and metaphorical: “brasche”, or “embers”, is …
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