Cultura
Anna Guendalina Lipparini
Anna Guendalina Lipparini, known as Queen of Luanto (Terni, February 22, 1862 – Pisa, September 8, 1914) Anna Guendalina Lipparini, known as Queen of Luanto, was a decadent Italian writer. “The boldest, most advanced, most risky writer that Italy has had in the last twenty years” (The death of a well-known writer in Il Nuovo […]
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Marcella Balconi
Marcella Balconi (Romagnano Sesia, 8 February 1919 – Novara, 5 February 1999) She was an Italian psychiatrist, partisan and politician, one of the most authoritative figures in science and politics of Novara after the Second World War. Among the first medical graduates in Italy, she was a student of the authoritative clinician and pediatrician […]
Continua a leggereBiagio Scaramuzzino da Serra San Bruno at the Royal Palace of Caserta
Biagio Scaramuzzino da Serra San Bruno at the Royal Palace of Caserta My excavations continue in the Calabrian Bourbon history, I continue to dig up elements that, for better or for worse, give a different vision of this region. This time I intend to tell you the story of Scaramuzzino, the great architect who traveled […]
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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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BERLIN WALL
On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall collapsed, the quintessential symbol of the Cold War. More than thirty years have passed since an event that marked the troubled history of the twentieth century. The history of the wall begins after the destruction of the city in 1945 by the Red Army, Germany divided into four […]
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The principality of Seborga, an ancient fairy tale in the heart of Liguria
There is a small village (sorry, a principality) nestled in the dazzling green hills of the far west of Liguria and overlooking a sea so blue that in the distance it seems painted. Along the alleys and in the medieval squares the white and blue flags of the kingdom flutter in the west wind that […]
Continua a leggereABOUT ARIAFERMA AND OTHER STORIES
The new film by Leonardo Di Costanzo, presented Out of Competition at the 78th Venice Film Festival, is already in our cinemas since 14 September. Ariaferma has among the protagonists, together with Toni Servillo and Silvio Orlando, Fabrizio Ferracane, a theater and cinema actor who in recent times is increasingly loved by audiences and directors. […]
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La Disfida di Barletta
Un saggio di recente pubblicazione ne ripercorre lo scenario storico, esaltando il valore dei combattenti e il prestigio ottenuto dall’Italia in tutte le Corti d’Europa di Fabio Lagonia Saverio Abenavoli Montebianco è un medico molto noto nell’ambito dell’epatologia e delle malattie infettive, nonché docente universitario fino al 2009. Ma è anche un appassionato conoscitore […]
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