It is in difficult moments that it becomes difficult to put on any mask, built over the years not always to defend oneself but often to appear what one wanted to believe. Invincible, sometimes proud and sometimes too greedy to achieve everything…
The first time he saw her, he was just a boy. But ever since, her siren call has occupied his mind. And the heart. Because not even love, indeed the loves have managed to keep him away from her ...
The nameless narrator gets naked with an anonymous interviewer: lately, after years of tireless activity, he begins to feel a certain tiredness. He should take a gap year, maybe, but the truth is, he likes his job…
Sometimes flowers are substitutes for words. Colored and perfumed codes to explain one's state of mind to others, reveal the weight of feelings that the voice would not be able to support (but a delicate green stem would). Yes…
During a happy day in the open air, on a very green lawn that unrolls "like a carpet until it touches the sky", a cheerful elementary class discovers the beauty of the world outside the classroom where the sky, the flowers and the sun…
Is it possible to fall in love with the details of a person more than with their entirety? And if that person, one day, changed in a little something, what has always attracted us about her, would we believe that she is still the same? We would continue to…
Loneliness is a terrifying and fascinating experience. Incurable by death, but alleviable by obsession. The one for an unattainable myth in which image and likeness to reinvent itself - but in a dark version, hungry for blood. Morrissey, frontman of the Smiths, not…
Emma is stuck: in an endless weekend spent between showers, TV and cleaning, without her son and without a job; she stuck in her thirty-three years as a single mother (and as) still tied to a past that she can no longer…
On the notes of the great songs of the past, a man of the past meets the "powerful" present like the voice of a boy with a guitar who goes around the tables of an impromptu restaurant on the Tiber. When the old…
Returning from work, a man takes the wrong door. Indeed, the door is the right one. It's the wrong life that goes to meet him, beyond the usual family gate. But what harm can it do to be someone else for one evening,…
A holiday together: for many couples, the supreme proof of the success or failure of a relationship, thinks Roberto, stuck in the middle of the sea with an angry Costanza. Costanza is his girlfriend, who at the moment hates him for something…
Coming from the geometric distances of a sea full of straight lines, landed together with other desperate people like him: this is Nero – black in name, in skin, in the past and in the future. To welcome him, a woman with carrot-colored freckles and…
Funerals and Weddings: Longtime friends or distant relatives are said to meet only on these occasions. In the last six months, three sudden deaths have shattered Gianna's peaceful existence; two of them brought…
In a neighborhood of Naples, so modest that it can't even enjoy the sunlight, lives Nunziatina. The «poor creature» has no voice but two mothers: the prostitute Anna, a poor wretch «who has already had children of hers…
The Tale of Sunday that FIRST Arte publishes today is "I no longer want to play" by Diego Maria Gradali - The Bauhaus and the British Museum in London the other gems to read
After long, intrepid battles fought in the room, on the "large table covered in light stone" with its green "Atlantic toy soldiers 1:100 scale", a child gives up the war for questions. Are fairy tales true? And Saint Lucia, who arrives…
«We are in danger, [...] we will all die». The brain and the heart know it, but it is difficult in times like these to say no to a job, even if it is "in hell", to protect loved ones and, one day, have "a…
A tribute to the artist and activist Vann Nath, in times that are hot more for tensions and intolerances than for the heat. A trip to a Cambodia soaked in tears, where blood flows as abundant as constant rain. In a…
A slightly scary fairy tale to let some fresh shivers run over the skin felt by the heat of July: the children of the city are disappearing and in their place there seems to be a boom of births and gatherings of felines, lovingly cared for kittens...
Mirko Tondi's story almost seems like a stream of consciousness, but maybe he's unconscious, or maybe he's crazy, or maybe something else, given that he flows fully into the fantastic. Because if it can happen to everyone (?) to remain closed in…
In this weekend's "menu" also the rediscovery of the sixteenth century in Emilia, on display at the Labyrinth of the Masone Fontanellato (PR) with the participation of the Louvre Museum.
A friendship between girls, or maybe something even stronger. Something that doesn't need words or encounters to be music, always. A friendship made up of desperate tears after the breakup of the Beatles, travel by train to buy an LP…
Today would have been the birthday of the French artist Marc Chagall, and on the columns of FIRST Arte Marika Lion retraces his story, among "flying cows, embracing lovers and violins".
The enthusiasm of three boys from a small town, who want to make a revolution between bourgeois duties and overeating at the restaurant around the corner. A good-natured rebuke, that of Athos Bigongialli, almost like a father, for this youth who plays more often…
GIUSELLA DE MARIA'S SUNDAY STORY - A very short and ironic story, fresh as a bottle from the fridge. Indeed, as essential as the guide for the holiday traveller. A summertime lifesaver, med kit for the explorer so in love he's willing…
An ordinary couple, who live in a "filthy place" where no one really knows anyone and the only real house-goers become the characters on the television, always on during meals, to keep them company. When a small kindness, extraordinary…
ALEX'S SUNDAY STORY. B. DI GIACOMO - Beatrice is a priestess of the Angels of Evil, a Satanist sect. Beatrice is a policewoman who lives with her boyfriend and is about to get married. Beatrice is the Reverend's slave, yes…
Thursday, day of arrivals and farewells. A daughter watches her father paint a gate "carabiniere color"; a father leaves leaving behind memories and absence. A faithful and silent friend comes from the hills to soothe a loneliness. In this story,…
The weekend exhibition is dedicated to Albrecht Dürer, to the Remondini collection at Palazzo Sturm in Bassano del Grappa.
So opaque that he doesn't even have a nickname, so insignificant in appearance that he barely disturbs the view, Giovanni, a village pharmacist, dreams. He dreams of being a farmer and keeping the secret of wisdom in his heart; dream of the past, the times…
An actor's face is a virgin canvas, which is painted with the joys and sorrows of a soul that is not his. The protagonist of this story, written by Danilo Angioletti, looks at his woman for the first time…
The Economist's incredible doubts about Leonardo's genius open the weekend edition of FIRST Arte, enriched by exhibitions, auctions and the Sunday Tale.
Let's be serious: the dead don't speak. It is up to science to bring to light the fragments of the past, to break the silence into which the passing of the centuries forces those who have preceded us. But imagine for a moment that two ancient mummies, nothing…
Sometimes, it is possible to cross eyes and hear "something confused and warm, instinctive, as if it just came out of an egg" that "squeals inside". They are hunting glances, exchanged between predator and prey. And that's how the girl in this…
Like every Sunday in the magazine dedicated to culture, a story: this time it's up to 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…
In Capri, where "a fiery sun" always shines and the sea is "very clear", for days the water has been a "frozen slab", the wind bends trees and light poles, the connections are interrupted. In the motionless port, among the many, a ship…
On FIRST Arte, the Tale returns like every Sunday: a very short story in this case, which, as has happened other times on the columns of our vertical site, takes us back to Naples, to the Naples of poignant feelings.
A very short story, powerful in its lyrical truth, about one of the most intense loves that exist in the world: that for one's own land; that she is not only a mother, but also a lover of every one born on her fertile body. And especially…
During one of her wellness rituals, an innocent girl meets Prince Charming. Which unfortunately is a serial killer. But fate, or perhaps God, put another one on her way, right there, in the "short tunnel under the bridge", another...
Silvia is the "guardian angel" of a boy who does not remember the color of her "dark" or perhaps "green" eyes, but after so many years she still thinks she is beautiful - even now that, perhaps, she is "fattened and resentful" . They both loved…
The beautiful Amorous Angel, who hasn't received so much love after all, hangs upside down on a stage, with his hopes shattered and his pride eaten by the "stray dogs" . In the show of…
The existence of a quiet pensioner, "a modest man [...] but not a poor man", divided between faithful memories of "his Lucia" and a tender crush on a young doctor, enlivened by shopping at the supermarket "twice a week » and the usual «four…
Hanging from a ledge of a high-rise, luxurious hotel that is reflected on Lake Maggiore, a man converses with the Heavenly Father, so "loving" that he has given him a life full of misfortunes. But he's not going to…
We open the "month of women" with the story of the author Francesca Bonafini, irreverent chronicle of a martyr deprived of the "most basic civil and social rights", immolated on the cruel altar of love at first sight, which sometimes transforms poor lovers in slaves of…
The poet of this weekend is the thirty-eight-year-old Russian Kirill Medvedev, artist and activist, known for his strong stance against the big publishing houses: for this he has given up without "ifs" and without "buts" the rights of all…
Each of us keeps our own ghosts in our hearts: a broken doll, a forgotten shawl, music in the air. But some are made of flesh and it happens that they come knocking on our door in the middle of the night, bringing with them…
A girl, more mythological creature than human, roams the corridors of a Los Angeles labyrinth, disturbing anyone she meets. The girl-chimera now boitatá, now jackalope – all to satisfy the fantasies of the ideal buyers who attend her…
This man is really lucky. His wife is an Eastern hottie, young, blonde, blue-eyed, and intelligent. He also has his own business in the village, which is very well established; a caring mother who watches over him; Betty's attentions…
The Sunday story of the desecrating Roman writer Fabrizio Patriarca and the most significant exhibitions of this period, without forgetting the inauguration of the year of culture in Matera, are the flagship services of FIRST Arte this weekend
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…
This week the story is taken from the controversial, partially autobiographical novel by Lionel Shriver, The Big Brother, which has not yet been translated into Italian: the story of a sister (Pandora), an accomplished health enthusiast, and a brother (Edison) weighing 175 kilos , affection…
For Christmas, the famous writer Argentieri is discharged from the clinic where he took refuge after a "nervous breakdown". To welcome him home, the magic of the holidays and the love of his faithful companion but, above all, an incredible energy to carry on the new,…
Pippo Bonalumi tells with the clarity of a fairy tale a peasant Tuscany that really is a bit magical, with its simple but out of the ordinary characters, where every event is worthy of being narrated with the legendary dignity of…
In an ammurròna Naples, almost cacophonous, superstitious, city of "men and gentlemen", respectful greetings and profusion bows, Clara's life is literally consumed. Forced by good tradition to take care of her mother, an "old woman" who…
Beyond the door of a bourgeois house, with the domestic chatter of the television and the feasts of a faithful dog, Matteo De Simone tells a different type of love. One made of "unmotivated slaps on the [...] cheeks" and mood swings,…
The greatest confidences of love that a woman can live are those with her hairdresser. To give it a break, change your mind, nothing better than a shiatsu massage and some sunstroke. Afterwards, each one comes out «happy,…
In this second appointment with the "Sunday Tale", we spy - thanks to the Neapolitan writer Antonella Ossorio - the family life of the first Italian Nobel Prize winner: Giosuè Carducci.
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…
