“Is so or at least it seemed to be” At first reading brilliant! It takes ones breathe away At second reading , besides “The Caste” of the collegues Rizzo and Stella, is ok. Giannino Marzotto’s architctural literary work “ Is so or at least it seemed to be”should be greedily read by young high school pupils in order to open their young minds, today more culturally ahead than yesterday and intending to speed them along the path of life. You are a philosophical milestone along the path that the young have to cover to know their destinys prematurely. It was Vittorio Feltri that fixed his merits above a human model that set congenital cultural limits beyond the rule. After all Giannino Marzotto is a top star personality that set on the horizon’s limits on which you love to linger over with a worried glance, becomes unbounded for you whilst greedily devouring the reasonings that appear in a logic and ironic proportion with no limits. From school, to the venerable temporal limitation , what he writes in this work “Is so or at least it seemed to be” satisfies the culturated need of knowledge to confront the depth and exasperation of synthesis as in a single sentence lays the meaning that you were longing for and didn’t know. The reading inebriates.Giannino Marzotto even before being exalted universally by the sport world ,with overpowering success shout out in those years by sport news, strolled in boundless spaces proud of his youth. Apollinean looks ,tall, strong irresistble to women, he went towards his horizons of glory with sureness that came from his intelligence, strength, fascination and inner nobleness that made him admired in the whole world. One of the prodigious “ Marzotto Brothers” , nobility , work , literature, forerunner of welfare , anticipator of social elevation of the working class that was already alive in the soul of the ancestors of his great lineage that with the Venetian honoured Italy , the one that produces and is of proverbial historiacal nobility. Giannino Marzotto the idolized personality that won two editions of a incomparable competition for his sour difficulties , impossible twists open to disaster. That leggendary Giannino Marzotto has been at the same time a giant of literal news, open to the future, an uncommon greatness that after having allowed him successes as sportsman , elevates him to be an exalted philosopher , not repeatable as these personalities that were giants even in the industrial career, are not repeatable for the universe. They aren’t repeatable because the creation wants them as unique examples to make them be felt as examples in the epic sonority of the symphonic orchestra of nature The man , that God gave form to punishing him with reiteration, does well when giving value to uniqueness, that in which, at my age one discovers inedited values.And well did the hyperbole man to range from sport , industry, to literature following unique ways in every discipline with a stern expression being the scene’ s absolute protagonist. Ecce Homo , Homo Sapiens, that is what we would say in our reasoning research aimed to identify the true nature that induced him to excel without strain. He did it with astonishing sureness when he raced in 2 editions of the most difficult run in the world, winning and not expecting to be in the elite of champions. At the end he was acclaimed by italian and european sport worlds . He did it in his literary work, a long autobiography in which he does not exalt himself. He did it in the authentic masterpiece of a life lived out of the common track. To common mortales. Common to all of us as there is only one exceptional life like Giannino Marzotto’s ,lived by him alone.It is useless to search for similar existences there aren’t any. This is why reading “Is so or at least it seemed to be” is even more pleasant. Not reading it is stealing the pleasure to know who Giannino Marzotto is, he that is over 80 with the spirit of a30 year old, and living quite spartanly is able to gather the most intense essence of nature of lawns and woods near his Trissino refuge , where he gives great hospitality to friends and pains in the neck, offering delights of his kitchen in which he enjoys inventing. Ecce Homo? Well,lets say that Giannino Marzotto is out of the existential stereotype to appear as today: tall, imposing, curious and inquiring look: classic gait that amplifys the sonority of his slight classic irony and his aphoristical and philosophical way of talking , lead by his youthful and dazzling culture.It is also he that is athletic, pungent, inexorably sarcastic. Women admire him for his splendid personality that fascinates beyond time and young beautiful women like to meet him, know him, to feel the active youthful fascination due also to the immortal wit of a language that made him fascinating and as it seems eternal .