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Dal Krakatoa a Valencia, il bilancio dei disastri lo scrive l’uomo

Alcuni disastri naturali hanno cambiato il futuro più di una guerra. Ma solo quando la società era pronta a farsi cambiare.

Gianluca Riccio

A dramatic split-scene illustration depicting the human relationship with natural disasters across history: on one side, a cross-sectional cutaway of a historic Lisbon building revealing the elegant wooden lattice skeleton of a pombalina cage — diagonal and horizontal timber beams interlocked like an X inside stone walls — glowing warmly against a backdrop of 18th-century Portuguese architecture. On the other side, a contemporary flooded Mediterranean city street at night, murky brown water rushing between modern apartment blocks, emergency lights reflecting off the surface, with distant storm clouds and a red-orange sky reminiscent of a volcanic sunset. In the far background, a stylized erupting volcano silhouette over dark ocean waves. The overall mood is somber yet intellectually charged, rendered in a painterly editorial style with rich ochres, deep blues, and stormy grays, evoking both historical gravitas and urgent modernity.

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