Basketball player in Virtus Cagliari, journalist in Videolina. Now Virginia Saba has started a new adventure, that of a writer. In fact, "The sound of beauty" (IF Press) has been released and the subtitle immediately clarifies the subject dealt with in the 208 pages that make up the volume: "Notes on life and philosophy". A life, that of Virginia, which began 39 years ago in Selargius and continues today in Rome, where she lives (together with her partner, the foreign minister and big name of the M5S Luigi Di Maio), works (on the bicameral Commission for regional issues ) and where he continues to study (Theology at the Pontifical Antonianum University).

How did the idea for this book come about?

"After a particular meeting, with a special person. More: a teacher. From this meeting I started a series of reflections on art, music, history and, of course, philosophy. A real path to try to answer to the question: what is beauty? The book collects all these reflections ".

The synopsis speaks of a "help" from Bach ...

"Yes. While I was writing I listened to his 32 Goldberg variations and each one somehow inspired my thoughts. They are melodies that Bach wrote for a count (Hermann Carl von Keyserling, ed) who suffered from insomnia, to help him find peace. And wondering about beauty and about life is just a way of finding inner peace ”.

Its "itinerary" touches numerous historical periods. Is there one that particularly fascinates you?

"The fifteenth century, when the humanists, like Marsilio Ficino, brought Plato's thought back to the center of philosophical reflection, alongside that of Aristotle. Rationality flanked and completed by love".

The themes touched on in the book are varied and varied: from Sappho to haiku, from Boethius to Verdi ...

"There are many 'keys' to reflect. Authors, characters and works of the past must not be considered as something distant or an end in itself. They can and must be a source of inspiration to live and understand our daily life".