Cultura

Domenico Ferraro

Only the tip of the iceberg of a feverish activity: how has the editorial line of Squilibri changed over time? Our intent has never been to confine ourselves to the fence of an exasperated specialization but to investigate and document everything that revolves around the music of oral tradition: reinterpretations of popular repertoires, artistic proposals […]

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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 […]

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Pina della Rossa

The image will save us Pina Della Rossa, visual artist, rooted in an incredibly beautiful but also raw Naples, where passion and violence mix between popularity and bourgeoisie in an intoxicating chaos. She has been active on the art scene since the eighties. She deals with photography, video, painting, installations. Her research introduces a metaphorical […]

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Biagio 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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Coco … “l’influencer”

di Elena Vera Stella Chanel come una borsa blu in pelle trapuntata con tracolla dorata, l’icona! Chanel come una giacca in Tweed, morbida, con quattro tasche a vista, un profilo di catena dorata che ne definisce la linea, l’eleganza! Chanel come Coco, la donna che ormai cinquanta anni fa ci lasciava, dopo aver creato un […]

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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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