Elio Franzini The political space of beauty Beauty, says Paul Valéry, is not to be considered a “pure notion”, even if it is one that has been fundamental in the history of western spirituality, and determined a metaphysical thought that is the foundation of philosophy. To summarize, and with all the risks that summarizing implies, Plato does exactly what according to Valéry should not be done to separate the Beautiful from beautiful things. Marina Gasparini’s work, instead, teaches…