“Travel, be it an individual’s displacement or the sum of the migrations of faceless masses of human beings throughout the millennia, is at the source of the human experience. It is one of the most elemental activities, almost as basic as the act of breathing” (MONGA 1996: 6)(1)
(1) MONGA, Luigi (edited by), “L’odeporica/Hodoeporics” in “Travel and Travel Writing: An Historical Overview of Hodoeporics”, Annali d’italianistica, n. 14, 1996.










