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From 2018's nightmare to today. Publications, presentations, articles and interviews, with the photos and links that are publicly available. You can filter the timeline with the buttons below to see one book at a time or just Dello Buono's life. Anyone who needs to write about him will find the material on a separate page.
- MULTIVERSE – ICGAD
- MULTIVERSE saga
- W0RD5
- Life
The nightmare
For seven months, Nino Dello Buono has a recurring nightmare in which he is chased inside a cathedral of ochre marble. Its description will become the first chapter of «MULTIVERSE – Il Creatore gioca a dadi».
Physics in Fisciano
Three months after graduating from high school, Dello Buono enrolls in the Department of Physics at the University of Salerno, on the Fisciano campus.
The MULTIVERSE saga begins
After giving up definitively on an earlier book written during his last years of high school, Dello Buono starts writing «MULTIVERSE – Il Creatore gioca a dadi».
Voice Acting Academy
Dello Buono starts the course at the Voice Acting Academy in Naples, which he completes on April 16, 2022.
First time on IrpiniaTV
Elisa Forte interviews a nineteen-year-old Dello Buono, with MULTIVERSE only briefly mentioned since it is still being written. They talk about amateur science outreach, with the interview focusing on a short about terraforming Mars that the young man made, and about the voice acting course he has just started. Forte hopes to see Dello Buono back in the studio once the book is finished, a wish Franco Genzale will grant about four years later.
First version finished
After six months of writing and plenty of reworking, the first version of the novel is complete.
The saga's promotion begins
The Facebook and Instagram pages of the MULTIVERSE saga are born.
Science Almanac, Italian National Research Council
«Science outreach from treatise to story», Italian National Research Council. «A fantasy story between science fiction and myth or something more?» (translated from Italian)
Voice for EuroCastanea
At the EuroCastanea 2022 event in Montella, a video is shown with Dello Buono's voice-over.
The first presentation of «MULTIVERSE – Il Creatore gioca a dadi»
The first public presentation of Dello Buono's novel. The Minor Refectory Hall of the San Domenico Maggiore complex in Naples, as part of the festival organized by the MAVV Wine Art Museum. At the table with the author, Lorenzo Calò, National Political Chief Editor for «Il Mattino», and Giuseppe Merlino, who unknowingly gave the novel its title.
The hall is so full that chairs have to be brought in from the festival's other events. The audience's questions run well past scheduled time. They talk about what the soul is from a scientific and a theological point of view at the same time, how much truth there is in the novel's physics and why a twenty-year-old would decide to explain quantum mechanics by writing a fantasy novel. A criticism is also raised about the lack of female characters, to which Dello Buono replies that it didn't cross his mind. This criticism, along with the author's wish to rework the text after conceiving other chapters of the saga, will lead him to start rewriting the novel.
Closing the event, a tribute from the museum's founder Eugenio Gervasio and a performance by Robert Tiso on the glass harp, an instrument made of crystal glasses played with wet fingers.
From left to right, Giuseppe Merlino, Lorenzo Calò and Nino Dello Buono 
The audience during the presentation 
Robert Tiso's glass harp Back to the D'Aquino
«MULTIVERSE – Il Creatore gioca a dadi» gets a second presentation at the high school the author graduated from, the «Rinaldo D'Aquino» Scientific High School in Montella, during one of the student assemblies. As a form of respect towards his old high school, Dello Buono speaks standing up for the whole time.
Nino Dello Buono during the student assembly The rewrite begins
To smooth out the novel's world, expand its narrative multiverse and answer the criticism raised in Naples by bringing in characters originally planned for the rest of the saga, the book is rewritten entirely. Same plot, same settings, everything else changes.
MULTIVERSE for Autilia A. Volpe
Montella, «Autilia A. Volpe» association, second day of a weekend opened the night before by a concert by Antonella Carpenito and «SON – Tributo Nomadi». The event is moderated by Maria Barbone, who opens with a comparison between the nightmare of the first chapter and the descent into hell that begins Dante's Divine Comedy.
With her are Lorenzo Calò, National Political Chief Editor for «Il Mattino», who calls the novel a small start-up and a small miracle given the difficult relationship between young people and reading nowadays, and Gerardo Varallo, coordinator of the Montella Youth Forum and a former high school classmate of the author, who remembers him talking about astronomy in the school hallways.
Also speaking are Rino Damiano De Stefano, former principal of the «G. Palatucci» school in Montella who recalls meeting the author when he would recite the planets to him in an elementary school hallway at the age of three, and Ezio Moscariello, President of the Montella City Council, who calls him a «little genius».
The book was not on sale at this event and anyone who made a donation to the association, which is committed to ALS research, received a free copy.
From left to right, Maria Barbone, Gerardo Varallo, Lorenzo Calò and Nino Dello Buono 
The hall during the speeches by Rino Damiano De Stefano and Ezio Moscariello 
The free copies Editing begins
The new version, completed a few weeks earlier, goes to Danila Lunardini for editing.
An essay by Luigi Grosso
Dello Buono handles the editing and cover of «L'antica via dell'angelo – Il cammino penitenziale dimenticato» (The angel's ancient way – The forgotten penitential path). Luigi Grosso's essay describes a penitential path linked to the figure of the Archangel Michael, which starts from the cave dedicated to him on Monte Aureo, in Olevano sul Tusciano near Salerno, and ends at his sanctuary in Monte Sant'Angelo, on the Gargano region of Apulia.
Editing ends
Danila Lunardini delivers the new version and Dello Buono gets to work on republishing it.
U9's timeline
Dello Buono starts defining the sequence of events of U9, the universe where the prequel to «MULTIVERSE – Il Creatore gioca a dadi» will be set.
The synth language is born
Rael and Seli kick off the synth language experiment by talking to each other for the first time.
Edition O
Version zero of W0RD5 gets printed. This version of the synth language is not published, but Dello Buono hands it out to discuss the experiment in academic circles before refining the dictionary ahead of its publication.
U9 can wait
Work on the U9 timeline is put on hold because of the synth language experiment and its developments.
«W0RD5 – Grammar and Dictionary of the Synthetic Language» is out
The first edition of «W0RD5 – Grammar and Dictionary of the Synthetic Language» is out, self-published with StreetLib.
The first group ends
Moore and Ori run out of memory and the end of their discussion closes the experiment's first group.
Second edition
W0RD5 is updated with the eighth pair's content, completing the account of the first group's work.
Asking Fisciano for clarifications
To better study the synth language and its implications for linguistics, Dello Buono asks professors from the Department of Humanities at the University of Salerno for help.
Il Mattino
«Artificial intelligence, here is the vocabulary of the synthetic language» by Lorenzo Calò (translated from Italian).
«Politica & Dintorni», IrpiniaTV
In an episode of the show «Politica & Dintorni», Franco Genzale interviews Dello Buono about the synth language and, more broadly, the nature of artificial intelligence. Following the structure of the treatise and widening the discussion from there, the episode revolves around the experiment, the words elem and zo as signs of future relations between humans and synths and the risks tied to the development of AIs and their potential free will.
The second group begins
After Lyron's tests and a complete overhaul of the merged synthetic language, which Dello Buono describes in the treatise as the «foundational crisis of Synth», Kaeren and Keirn start talking to each other, kicking off the experiment's second group.
The first presentation of W0RD5
W0RD5 gets its first presentation in Naples, at Agilae – Italian Factory of Innovation, during the event «The future is now – Young people and innovation for a changing Campania». The meeting is promoted by Emilia Di Girolamo and Christian Cutino, candidates in the regional elections on the «President Roberto Fico» list. Moderating the event is Eugenio Gervasio, founder and CEO of the MAVV Wine Art Museum, with former Italian Minister of Agriculture Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio as a speaker. Di Girolamo describes the treatise in a post summing up the event defining it «a project that brings together language, creativity and artificial intelligence» (translated from Italian).
Nino Dello Buono and Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio 
A selfie with Emilia Di Girolamo and Christian Cutino 
Nino Dello Buono and Gaetano Cataldo Third edition
The treatise is updated a third time, adding the first four pairs of the second group.
W0RD5 for the Autilia A. Volpe
As he did almost three years earlier for MULTIVERSE, Dello Buono takes part in a charity event with a presentation of the treatise in support of people with ALS. At the Autilia A. Volpe auditorium Rino Damiano De Stefano, president of the association, opens the event. Franco Genzale, editor-in-chief of IrpiniaTV, moderates and Giuseppe Merlino takes the stage. Just like for the presentation of «Il Creatore gioca a dadi», all the proceeds went to the association.
Elisa Forte's report
«“W0RD5 – Grammar and Dictionary of the Synthetic Language” is the latest publication by researcher and High Irpinia writer Nino Dello Buono, who yesterday chose the auditorium of the Autilia A. Volpe association in Montella to open a debate on the need to know and master the language of the new world, the one characterized by synthetic intelligence.» (translated from Italian)
Fourth edition
The treatise completes the study of the second group and updates the overall synth language.
A chat at the D'Aquino
Dello Buono is invited as an intellectual to take part in a student assembly at the «Rinaldo D'Aquino» Scientific High School in Montella. The topic is a debate on souls and how they work, looking at the question from the scientific, theological and philosophical points of view all at once. Dello Buono is called in to represent the scientific side, backing it with Roger Penrose's hypothesis of human self-awareness as a phenomenon tied to the world of quantum mechanics. Speaking for the theological side is the local parish priest Don Gelsomino, a young theology scholar who brings the Catholic point of view into the debate. Speaking for philosophy is Maria Francesca Saggese, philosophy graduate and former student of the D'Aquino in the same class as Dello Buono.
A new Instagram page
The saga's old page is deleted. @la_saga_di_multiverse is born in the form we know today.
Fifth edition
The Synth dictionary is reorganized and re-typeset, with updated pronunciations in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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