"What else, for that matter, can so harmoniously reconcile Sappho and Plato, Dante and Virgil, Tasso and Metastasio, Goethe and Foscolo, D'Annunzio and Trilussa, Gibran and Garcia Lorca, Celli and Neruda... and the many other devotees who two thousand years before and two thousand years after Christ dipped into their inkwells the ink describing the bee world, whose form, substance, and creative scope we still admire and interpret today?... in this meticulous and impassioned collection of his writings dedicated to the bee, Graziola has shaped not only a bridge to a pantheon, an ideal and by no means imaginary place where poets, these characters who all really existed, find a way to return today to express themselves." (from the introduction by Raffaele Cirone)