Each product available on the platform is listed and sold by a partner seller identified on the product page. The platform acts as a metasearch/marketplace: it facilitates discovery and checkout, but the sale is made by the seller, who becomes responsible for the transaction.
Shipping is managed directly by the partner seller. The package is sent from the seller's warehouse or logistics network and handed over to the courier. This model enables more efficient deliveries and ensures that order management is handled by the party with actual availability of the product.
On the product page, you will find ingredients, allergens and nutritional information based on the data provided by the seller or producer, namely the official label. If you have allergies or intolerances, we recommend carefully checking the product page before purchasing and contacting the seller with any specific questions.
The platform was created to promote Italian food and make it more accessible. We select sellers in the food e-commerce sector with consistent catalogs and transparent information. Each product is associated with an identifiable seller and a complete information page: we want shopping here to mean buying with confidence.
Delivery times and costs depend on the seller and destination. At checkout, you will always find an updated delivery estimate before confirming payment. For international shipments, times may vary depending on the country and courier.
From the Latin «in the middle of the lands», the Mediterranean evokes classicism, cultural cross-pollination and blue skies onto which to project a desire: that of capturing the features of a shared identity. If the historian’s gaze seems to disprove the idea of Mediterranean identity – David Abulafia defines it in this volume as a fragmented space, in which even in the past encounters between cultures were the exception in certain cosmopolitan cities rather than the rule – it is the Muses who are attracted to it. The melancholic and reflective vein of the songs evoked by Turkish musician Zülfü Livaneli, the proverbial conviviality and celebration of leisure praised by Matteo Nucci are viewed with a mixture of fascination and disapproval by Protestant countries: the nobility of the Greek profile of homo mediterraneus can instantly become a contemptuous caricature synonymous with laxity and cultural backwardness. However one chooses to define it, the Mediterranean appears to be in crisis: neglected by the European Union, which views the North African and Levantine coasts only as a threat and an energy resource, it is the crossroads of one of the greatest migrations in history. While every year hundreds of millions of holidaymakers swarm towards its shores, like in a distorting mirror hundreds of thousands of people undertake a dramatic journey in the opposite direction to flee wars, persecution and poverty. The liquid road, as Homer called it, is increasingly militarized, busy and polluted, as well as overheated and overfished. Seen from the North African shores, rather than Mare nostrum it seems like a wall dividing the Arab world from the European one, a source of division rather than a crossroads of cultures. It would be wiser to celebrate its variety rather than seek an elusive common identity, but perhaps Mediterranean identity is nothing more than a feeling, and as such it does not want to hear reason. Despite everything, it remains fascinating, reassuring and comforting. On its shores modernity does not take complete root, time flows differently, and people talk to one another more than elsewhere. And what if homo mediterraneus were yet to come?
Price including VAT
From the Latin «in the middle of the lands», the Mediterranean evokes classicism, cultural cross-pollination and blue skies onto which to project a desire: that of capturing the features of a shared identity. If the historian’s gaze seems to disprove the idea of Mediterranean identity – David Abulafia defines it in this volume as a fragmented space, in which even in the past encounters between cultures were the exception in certain cosmopolitan cities rather than the rule – it is the Muses who are attracted to it. The melancholic and reflective vein of the songs evoked by Turkish musician Zülfü Livaneli, the proverbial conviviality and celebration of leisure praised by Matteo Nucci are viewed with a mixture of fascination and disapproval by Protestant countries: the nobility of the Greek profile of homo mediterraneus can instantly become a contemptuous caricature synonymous with laxity and cultural backwardness. However one chooses to define it, the Mediterranean appears to be in crisis: neglected by the European Union, which views the North African and Levantine coasts only as a threat and an energy resource, it is the crossroads of one of the greatest migrations in history. While every year hundreds of millions of holidaymakers swarm towards its shores, like in a distorting mirror hundreds of thousands of people undertake a dramatic journey in the opposite direction to flee wars, persecution and poverty. The liquid road, as Homer called it, is increasingly militarized, busy and polluted, as well as overheated and overfished. Seen from the North African shores, rather than Mare nostrum it seems like a wall dividing the Arab world from the European one, a source of division rather than a crossroads of cultures. It would be wiser to celebrate its variety rather than seek an elusive common identity, but perhaps Mediterranean identity is nothing more than a feeling, and as such it does not want to hear reason. Despite everything, it remains fascinating, reassuring and comforting. On its shores modernity does not take complete root, time flows differently, and people talk to one another more than elsewhere. And what if homo mediterraneus were yet to come?
