Treccani has officially recognized neologism ‘landscape’, female noun with the meaning of “country, small inhabited center characterized by stretched daily rhythms, as a size consonant to philosophical thought and reflection”. Neologism was included in the 2025 update of the Treccani and lexicographers dictionary of the Italian Encyclopedia Institute attributed the coinage to Gianluca Galotta, professor of Philosophy and History in Rome, author of the book “Landscape. Philosophy and travel in the small countries” (the school of Pitagora Editrice, 2021).
The ‘landscape’ coined by Galotta represents the encounter between the landscape and philosophy, where the journey itself becomes an opportunity for introspection and rediscovery of the small villages that risk extinction. A return to the origin of things, an invitation to rediscover humanity without getting lost in the chaos and disorder of great urban realities
Treccani recognizes that Galotta with her “landscape” aims to give a systematization and, last but not least, a name to this trend of our time. In this work the author identifies the ideal places in small villages to start an inner path; A non -disturbed path from the perennial excitement to which the inhabitant of the city is subjected. Galotta thus resumes the suggestions of the German sociologist Georg Simmel on the metropolitan man, obliged to a detached and indifferent attitude to resist the sensory overestimation imposed by great urban concentrations. “Landscape” goes beyond this premise: albeit in a popular form, the book deals with the relationship between space, time and philosophy. Report that Galotta faces with the delicacy of those who have precious and fragile objects in their hands which small towns are, convinced that philosophy and spirituality only in countries can only be born.