To mark the fortieth anniversary of its first edition, Quodlibet republishes Viaggio in Italia. Conceived by Luigi Ghirri, released for the first and only time in 1984, it is a cornerstone of the history of contemporary photography. The ideas that guided it are the manifesto of the Italian School of Landscape. In the early 1980s Luigi Ghirri gathered around him a group of twenty photographers who had already been experimenting with unconventional ways of representing reality and the social changes taking place everywhere in the country since the end of the previous decade. The comparison will give life to the group exhibition Viaggio in Italia, inaugurated on January 15, 1984 at the Pinacoteca Provinciale in Bari and re-proposed in Genoa, Ancona, Rome, Naples and Reggio Emilia. The exhibition was accompanied by the volume of the same name, illustrated by Ghirri and Paola Borgonzoni, with an essay by Arturo Carlo Quintavalle and an essay by Gianni Celati. In the indeterminacy that surrounds the memory of the event, it will be the book itself that will consolidate its international critical success and transmit the concept of territory understood as a system of unsuspected, daily resources, far from the sensationalism of the news but from the sugar-coated panorama of the postcard. As Quintavalle observes: «All the postcards are equally unrealistic, they are mythical representations of ideal cities where the reality of living, managing, everyday space, the reality of what we today call urban space, furniture, or interior architecture is completely mystified, indeed erased, removed. You live in a postcard the fake of our world, a double that is absurd because it does not exist, it does not represent anything. In short, we do, by sending postcards, symbolic journeys and Ghirri, in his time,made our consciences travel through the history of these fictional universes». For years, no one has sent postcards anymore, but the tendency to represent the landscape in an oleographic and virtual way in the worst sense of the term has not disappeared, so the invitation to travel by deviating from the only route promoted by maps is still relevant today. The new edition is a facsimile reproduction of the first, published by Il Quadrante di Alessandria in 1984. All the details of the original book have been faithfully preserved, adopting the design, the layout of the text and the sequence of the original images, the material properties and the dimensions of the pages. To obtain a more adequate rendering of the images, the reproduction of the photographs was carried out starting from the re-digitization of the negatives or original prints. The volume is accompanied by a 48-page issue with an essay on genesis and fortune criticism of Viaggio in Italia edited by Matteo Balduzzi, Fabio De Chirico, Gabriella Guerci, Matteo Piccioni, from a note by Adele Ghirri and from the French and English translations of the original texts by Arturo Carlo Quintavalle and Gianni Celati (published in Italian in the book). Twenty photographers participated in the Journey: Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Gianantonio Battistella, Vincenzo Castella, Andrea Cavazzuti, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Mario Cresci, Vittore Fossati, Carlo Garzia, Luigi Ghirri, Guido Guidi, Shelley Hill, Mimmo Jodice, Gianni Leone, Claude Nori, Umberto Sartorello, Mario Tinelli, Ernesto Tuliozi, Fulvio Ventura, Cuchi White.