“Of Clarice, crumbling stone by stone and unraveling and dissolving, the power never disappears: it reassembles itself each time it collapses, shuffling the scattered pieces of itself as in a bag of dice.”

The name of our foundation was inspired by Italo Calvino’s The Invisible Cities, a work that explores the complexity of human life through symbols and metaphors.

Clarice, in Calvino’s vision, is a city that thrives on its transformations, a place that welcomes the weight of the past and transforms it into hope and renewal. For us, this name represents a message of resilience, care and concern for that which is fragile but deeply precious.

The Clarice Foundation was established with the goal of being a concrete presence, able to accompany and support those most in need. The name is a tribute to an ideal of caring that values the roots of our humanity and strives for a more just and inclusive future.

“Every change implies a sequence of destruction and reconstruction; but Clarice’s fragments, though scattered and disconnected, bear the imprint of the same form, which persists and endures, like invisible armor.”