Under Old Stars

Through black and white images and prose sketches, this book takes readers on a journey to discover a world largely lost today, among people deeply at home with their old ways, in remote hill towns in south-central Italy. Mauro Marinelli's stark, yet lyrical, photographs reveal the beauty and wonder in small things--a foot on the stair, sunlight on a wall, the flower pot atop a confessional. Rob Lloyd's sensual and meditative prose sketches include historical reveries, street scenes, snippets of overheard conversations, and private moments, real and imagined.