Une figure florentine - Sur la trace de Valery Larbaud

Valery Larbaud moved to Florence, Italy, in 1912. He was there to do research for his thesis on 18th century English poet Walter Savage Landor, who had once been exiled to Florence. But Lardaud was also there to complete his own manuscript, a romantic work entitled The Intimate Journal of A. O. Barnabooth.
The book was published the following year, and Larbaud was never to finish his thesis. His stay in Florence had determined his literary future.
Touring around Florence, 80 years later, allows us to rediscover this story ; but this film is also a guide by way of the city as it is found today... At the intersection of town and history, fiction takes hold of reality and the voyage becomes an internal adventure.