Nine months after its release, Casa della Cultura publishes a perspicuous comment by Marino Ruzzenenti on the Scienze del Territorio special issue dedicated to the pandemic - unfortunately still underway; with a focus on the conditions that favoured its onset and another on the territorial, social, economic, cultural and anthropological consequences of its parable and of the countless countermeasures adopted, over time, in an attempt to stem it and to prepare a plausible and safe 'after'.