Anno: 2020
The Nativity in art
Christmas, which is the Christian celebration of the birth of the Child Jesus, is celebrated by the Western Roman Church according to the Gregorian calendar on December 25, while by the Eastern Roman Church, according to the Julian calendar, it takes place on January 7. Among the most represented scenes in art, Christmas is certainly […]
Continua a leggereSilvia Casarin Rizzolo. Conductor profession
Conducting an orchestra is still a job 95 percent entrusted to men. But the 5 percent of women who get on the podium today started a revolution that is proving to be unstoppable, like an avalanche. When a woman is in charge, many things change: “The taboo is breaking – says Silvia Casarin Rizzolo, Venetian, […]
Continua a leggereCapo Milazzo A young and already surprising marine protected area
“Marine Protected Areas: they are too few and small in size. Strengthening them can have a great impact on eco-sustainable tourism “. It was the Minister of the Environment Sergio Costa, a few years ago, who declared this during the inauguration ceremony of the research year of the Anton Dohrn zoological station.
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“I stopped to contemplate Saint Benedict in the basin below, it was darkening, the first blue smokes came from the houses, soon the bell would strike the last toll of that day and the only public lamp in the square would come on. Then I understood that I could not deprive myself of all those […]
Continua a leggereCapo Milazzo. A young and already surprising marine protected area
“Marine Protected Areas: they are too few and small in size. Strengthening them can have a great impact on eco-sustainable tourism “. It was the Minister of the Environment Sergio Costa, a few years ago, who declared this during the inauguration ceremony of the research year of the Anton Dohrn zoological station.
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ROTA IN RIGA
R – ROTA IN RIGA Soundtrack of many cult films, masterpieces of an era, Nino Rota’s music seems to reach straight to the heart of the audience, while enclosing an extraordinary rhythmic, harmonic and stylistic complexity that makes them far superior to any merely contemporary musical product “commercial”. Basically it’s popular music, since it is […]
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The Mediterranean traces the routes of civilization
“History is the key to understanding Sicily, even more necessary than to understand any other human community”, wrote the Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia. If there is a catalyst center for many historical events that determined the destiny of Sicily, this center is undoubtedly the Mediterranean.“Liquid continent” defined it Fernand Braudel. The most beautiful testimonies of […]
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Like the owl by day
This is the Shakespearean quote, taken from Henry IV, in the initial part of one of Leonardo Sciascia’s most representative masterpieces, Il Giorno della Civetta (1961). “Just as the owl is a nocturnal animal and becomes an object of wonder if it appears during the day, so the mafia in Sicily is losing its nocturnal […]
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TUSCANIA A STORY OF PAST TIMES
Tuscania is out of the way and still no one, who is not from those places, knows the beautiful path that leads from Etruscan and papal Vetralla to Etruscan and papal Tuscania between meadows and woods. “Long shadows ran on the ground, the first shadows of the evening ran from west to east similar to […]
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Puglia and the souls of the dead
My journey into the traditional culture of Southern Italy this time takes me to Puglia. We are exactly in Manfredonia. Here it is not the Befana, the good witch of the children’s Christmas fantasy, who fills the sock, but the dear departed ones pay homage to the children of Puglia. It is not Halloween in […]
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