LA RICERCA fra ragione e sentimento

Doubt. Subjected to a word frequency analysis, the text of Adamo Maggini’s “Ricerca” would give us the exact incidence of the word “doubt”. It is the story of a young clergyman, assistant to an older parish priest who carries out the rituals and no longer asks why. However, the young man’s mind is crowded with questions. Questions about life and the meaning of things are systemic. They assail the conscience and touch the deepest places. This is no surprise for those familiar with the author: Maggini is a “Cartesian Christian”, a practising Catholic and a science enthusiast, who regards the human and the divine from inside the Church, knowing that outside it there are other views and other worlds.