On the Geometry of Some Special Projective Varieties

“The book under review (awarded the 2015 Book Prize of the Unione Matematica Italiana) gives a survey of some classical and recent results on the geometry of projective varieties and its applications. … The book will be useful to anyone interested in classical algebraic geometry.” (Fyodor L. Zak, Mathematical Reviews, May, 2017)

“The book under review covers fundamental aspects of the theory of secant spaces to varieties, and contains a careful description of many of its recent applications to Algebraic Geometry. Under this respect, it provides a fundamental advanced introduction to recent results and developments of a topic which experienced a rapid evolution in the last years.” (Luca Chiantini, zbMATH 1337.14001, 2016)