The Bastille and the "Lettre de cachet" in a short story to listen to
The lettre de cachet, a blank arrest warrant signed by the king and granted to influential people, contributed much to the cheerful life within the prison walls.
Van Gogh's colors shine again in Arles in Gehry's steel
Today I'm talking about Arles or rather about the Parc des Ateliers, the city's new artistic complex at the mouth of the Rhone. But first let's talk about how to get to Arles, an aspect that is by no means secondary today
Franco Fortini's China: 1973 a new journey
Report of the trip to China published in Quaderni Piacentini Almost simultaneously with Antonioni (who shot the ill-fated documentary Cheng Kuo, China in 1972), another brilliant, sophisticated and independent Italian intellectual outside the pack of the various ideological orchestras of the time visited China. …
National competition for short stories entitled "Take Care of Me"
The Academy of Safety and Best Health in collaboration with the goWare publishing house and the School of Publishing announce two national competitions for short stories. The stories must have a maximum of 1800 lines and deal with personally experienced stories, of which the author can be the witness or narrator…
Trussardi Foundation: online project “Camera Travel” at the end
The online project of the Nicola Trussardi Foundation ends on Monday 1 June, which for 67 days has collected and distributed images, videos and texts daily, chosen by artists invited to tell their home space and their imaginary journeys during the lockdown. Everything is fine…
Bestsellers of the past: Angelo Gatti, "Ilia and Alberto" a work that resurfaces from afar
Resurrection of a book The 27th episode of the series by Italian best-selling authors is dedicated to the story of a resurrection. That of a book. The history of books is sometimes tortuous, almost like that of our lives, and in…
Christina World: the melancholy of a painter like Andrew Wyeth
“Christina's World” a 1948 work painted by Andrew Wyeth depicts a young woman seen from behind, wearing a pink dress and lying in a grassy field. Although she appears in a resting position, her bust, resting on her…
Bestseller of the past: Nino Salvaneschi. From a personal tragedy the landing to a deep faith
The 26th episode of the series by the Italian best-selling authors presents a writer, today largely disappeared from the collective memory, except for some distant veteran of those times or those suffering from a disabling pathology, which we will discuss in…
#History: Rommel, what mystery in the story of the "desert fox"
We all remember General Rommel, Erwin Johannes Eugen to be exact, as the man who in 1940 suddenly became the most famous commander of the XNUMXth Armored Division during its advance through France. After two years, when his Africa Kops stood with the forces…
#History: the Pyramid of Cheops and its mystery
How much curiosity is linked to the pyramids of Giza, in Egypt, and above all to the great pyramid of the pharaoh Khufu, called by the Greeks, Cheops. Built about 4.500 years ago, it still remains the largest work of architecture ever built by man, with…
#History: Every beginning of the century the "prelude" to a global crisis
During this period of health emergency from Covid-19 which sees us worried but also closer, we thought we'd publish a reading every day: moments of #history, of #society or commented pages of the great #classics of literature. An easy way…
Who has never said: "It's nice to look out the windows"
As people around the world attempt to come to terms with the new reality that has suddenly presented itself as a nightmare we stand at the window like so many great artists of the past who have communicated their feelings for the…
Respect for the environment: the only bridge for a new human freedom
In these days that an unknown and invisible enemy has forced us into isolation from our fellow humans, just look out the window and see that nature hasn't stopped, quite the contrary! Spring has reappeared as in every season, the…
The new technological scene and the Wagnerian legacy of Anna Maria Monteverdi
A fundamental work has recently been republished for understanding modernity and the developments of contemporary art and aesthetics. It is a seminal book that has influenced entire generations of artists and thinkers. It is Richard Wagner's The Artwork of the Future in Italian translation republished by…
Tale of Sunday: "Cleopatra had been a curious child" by Celenia Ciampa
Once upon a time, there was a little girl brave enough to want to experience great fears. Because she, after growing up "in an old and creaky house, where every drawer could hide a mystery and every room was a shady cavern", she didn't…
Tale of Sunday: "Widows" by Patrizia Emilitri Ruspa
Two dear widows, always with good words for everyone, wander through a village cemetery crowded with spirits of the deceased, outstanding bills and bunches of cheap flowers left on the graves of their loved ones. Patrizia Emilitri Ruspa, with…
Tale of Sunday: "Don't wait up for me" by Davide Lisino
The marital infidelity of an ordinary man leads him to find himself involved in a very particular hunt, in which the roles are as liquid as the glittering gaze of a panther cloaked in nocturnal black. Among flying bullets, which pierce the…
Tale of Sunday: "How I learned to happily get my ic****" by Fabrizio Patriarca
The miracle of life? A herculean race, faster than Ferraris driven by stars of wellness centres, with supplements in jars and philosophy in pills. And one can be a loser – a c**** head, in short, who doesn't…
Tale of Sunday: Time to fly by Ruth Padel
The poem Time to fly by Ruth Padel, of which we offer the translation, is taken from the collection of prose and poems The Mara Crossing. A book on the migration of animals and men. The column "Tale of Sunday" was born from…