Francesco Guccini has never liked to talk about his private life, which is why his revelation on the bilateral maculopathy from which it suffers has surprised everyone a little. He himself told the guest of the literary festival The city of readers, explaining that he is suffering from a degenerative pathology that struck him in both eyes and made him unable to read anymore. “I see us walking but up to a certain point, and so I can’t read anymore. With the computer I can because it enlarges the letters and I can also write. But how I miss reading a book! I have audio books, but they are not the same thing, ”Guccini explained.
«I can’t even read the newspaper anymore and this gives me great suffering, because I read, read, read. My real profession was reading books “, added Francesco Guccini, indirectly turning on the light on a pathology, maculopathy, with which thousands of people live every day. It is a disease that affects the central part of the retina (the macula) and leads to the progressive loss of central and bilateral vision of those affected. What follows is a strong limitation of the visual functionwhich reduces the autonomy of the person who is forced to have us what to do.
Francesco Guccini had spoken for the first time about his health problems years ago, when the disease was in its infancy. On that occasion the artist said he was frustrated at not being able to move and do everyday things, even if his relationship with music seems to have changed a lot over time. “I can’t stand music anymore, I just can’t stand it in the most absolute way”he said, in fact, at the literary festival on the occasion of the presentation of his latest book, Three dinners (the last one is actually a lunch).
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