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Abstract
This essay discusses the representation of the city of Florence in Vanni Santoni's Se fossi fuoco, arderei Firenze. Reflecting on the peculiar dynamics and interactions between this urban space and its citizens, the essay argues that the novel displays an ambiguous attitude toward Florence's problematic and contradictory beauty. In particular, the essay provides a reading of Se fossi fuoco in the light of some of Vincenzo Binetti's observations in his Città nomadi: esodo e autonomia nella metropoli contemporanea. Ultimately, despite its prevalent atmosphere of disillusionment and disenchantment, Santoni's representation of the city of Florence in Se fossi fuoco does not entirely exclude the possibility of different forms of inhabitation and processes of deterritorialization, which are potentially similar to those Binetti analyzes in his work.
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