Palazzo Roverella in Rovigo hosts a major exhibition on Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) and Italy. About 200 vintage photographs and other documents trace the stages of a relationship that began in the 1930s and continued until the 1970s, when Cartier-Bresson abandoned photography; from his first trip in the company of his friend André Pieyre de Mandiargues, a poet and writer, and his companion, the painter Leonor Fini, on which he took some of his most famous images, to his second trip in the 1950s to Abruzzo and Lucania in the footsteps of Carlo Levi, continuing with reports for illustrated magazines of the time, including ‘Holiday’ and ‘Harper’s Bazaar’, dedicated above all to Rome, Naples and Venice, concluding, once again in Matera, a real return to the places he had visited twenty years earlier, in which it is easy to read the advance of modernity and the persistence of local identities.