In music, the seconda volta (second ending) is the new bar you go to when you play a passage the second time, after a repeat sign. You have come along the same path as before, but the ending is completed with an entirely new melody.
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
As the words attributed to Mark Twain suggest, human history too passes through similar events and moves toward slightly different endings.
A place to explore, on a map, the footsteps of humankind — walking the same paths, yet varied each time.
Volta is a map for setting out to find those new bars of history.