Le tre Italie, le molte Italie

On Feb. 24, 2020, when Italy announced in the media that it had entered the epidemic from Covid-19, geographers thought the matter did not concern them: the epidemic was a biomedical issue, and the researchers involved were the physicians, the virologists, the epidemiologists, the pulmonologists-in short, those who dealt with health issues. Soon, however, the differences territorial that the virus drew, in its expansion and spread, delineated a space of the epidemic articulated and anisotropic that caught their attention. When, after a few weeks, Lombardy became the European epicenter of Covid-19 there was no longer any doubt: the spatial analysts had to get into the field and bring their expertise to bear in an attempt to understand what was happening in their country.