In this work Adami shows off the formal elaboration of the writing, in fact most of the left-hand section of the watercolour is occupied by the epigraph. Words in Adami are not only elegance but also a way of manifesting his own identity, his own signature. His " English italic " goes back to the origins of this style of writing, which derives from the search for the subjective uniqueness of the writer's hand, and so this writing represents part of Valerio Adami's artistic authenticity.