30 years after the death of Giovanni Cesaraccio , the Giovanni Cesaraccio Pro Natura Association has published a book that traces the studies, adventures and research of the naturalist from La Maddalena . The book, published by Paolo Sorba, edited by Tommaso Gamboni, entitled: "Giovanni Cesaraccio - naturalist", was financed and sponsored by the La Maddalena Archipelago National Park.
The presentation took place last July 29 at the headquarters of the Park Authority. Today, December 15, the National Park brought Giovanni Cesaraccio among students of the Giuseppe Garibaldi Institute of Higher Education.
The director of the park Giulio Plastina , the curator of the book Tommaso Gamboni and the councilor of the park Lucia Spanu informed the girls and boys about who the La Maddalena naturalist was and they were given a copy of the book.
When he died, Giovanni Cesaraccio was just 42 years old . His death greatly affected the island community, although a large part of it was distracted by the already advanced summer, above all for the still young age. A worker in the Arsenale, he was not particularly known except in the scholastic sphere (he had attended the Nautical Institute) and in the workplace. Few were aware that on August 3, 1992, not only a still young islander died but a pure naturalist , as he almost immediately began to be defined and recognized. And we began to realize this when the following year the association that he himself had founded and of which he was president was dedicated to him, a few years later a street, even a rather important one, was dedicated to him, and later, in 2001, he was again dedicated to the Geo-mineralogical Museum of Caprera-Stagnali, located in the Environmental Education Center of the National Park; moreover, a new species of insect has been dedicated to him, the Amaurorhinus cesaraccioi .
« A lover of research », defined him by Ignazio Camarda , for many years professor of Systematic Botany at the University of Sassari, president of ISSLA (Sardinian Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts), first president, starting from 1998, of the Park National of the La Maddalena Archipelago.
«A non-academic scholar deeply attached to the territory, able to grasp aspects that go beyond the surface of things, capable of using the method of scientific research based on the identification of a phenomenon, its analysis, evaluation and critical reflection».