Memorie sulla storia, sull'economia, sulla tradizione e sul folklore nell'antica pratica distillatoria del modenese

"Distilling is like imitating the sun ..." this is how Dioscoride Pedacio in the I century A.D. described a fact that had, in the ground, the reflection of the divine. What will then become the water of life in the conception and in writing begins its journey in the history with the image of "lucerna coelica", in perfect coherence with the ancestral, very ancient cultural roots based on the belief that alcoholic drinks bring men nearer to the gods, so near to become almost immortal too.