Autoritratti Autoritratti is a participatory art project that calls into question the unconscious and literature. In 2018 Tommaso Spazzini Villa involves more than 361 inmates from different Italian prisons, entrusting each of them with a different page from a copy of Homer's Odyssey. On the single sheet, each participant is sent to intervene with underlining and comments, highlighting words so as to compose sentences that make sense, representative of the inmate or his state of mind. The Homeric text is thus transformed into a kind of stage backdrop, where the real actors in the field are the participants and the space of expression that is made available to them to trace their own “self-portrait.” The present volume returns the copy of the Odyssey, reassembled by the artist, once the project has concluded; a kind of meta-text emerges, giving voice to the unconscious and personal experience of the participants, capable of speaking of the depths of these people, and of their condition of deprivation and limitation of freedom. Accompanying the volume are a text by Matteo Nucci and one by Saverio Verini.