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Woman, Life, Freedom
Reading Time: 7 minutes by Reza Rashidy Almost a year has passed since the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini (16 September 2022), the twenty-two-year-old girl murdered due to the violent beatings she suffered from the infamous morality police. A tragedy that has shaken the whole country and which has exploded a stratified and dormant anger from…
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Leopardi, bon ton and lively criticism
Reading Time: 10 minutes Text by Michele Felice The critic is an echo, of course. But isn't it perhaps also the voice of the mountain, of nature, to which the poet's voice is directed? Isn't the critic facing his poet like the poet facing the calls of his own heart? Because of this,…
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Family crimes and pills of law / Interview with Federica Candelise, edited by Delilah Gutman and Nunzia Pasturi.
Reading Time: 11 minutes DELILAH Death for crimes in the family is an age-old scourge of society which is emerging with increasing frequency and barbarism in the historical contemporaneity. If hidden and not sufficiently discussed in the past, it is thanks to the overwhelming force of communication, the sometimes strategic immediacy of new technologies and, above all, the…
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Chiaro Scuro / Interviews on the present by Delilah Gutman – Laura Forti, the authentic word runs through “A house on fire”
Reading Time: 17 minutes DELILAH «There are many versions of happiness, none is taken for granted and everyone must find meaning in their own by pulling it out of the tangle of fears, fantasies and expectations that we carry within us. For some it is a patient and linear journey, a long-term project. I won't arrive...
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Antonio Deltoro, “Camel and other poems”. Versions and note by Stefano Strazzabosco
Reading Time: 4 minutes Theology Bored of Himself made man. He made it imaginative, greedy, with side dishes and with dates; he didn't give him his life to win, just to play a serious game. Everyone plays once, while He plays simultaneous games without time limits. Aburried Teology of Yes to…
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The choice of light. Rolando Damiani enlightens us on "barbarism and civilization", by Paolo Steffan
Reading Time: 6 minutes And yet that barbarism produced a life less distant from nature, and less unhappy, more active, etc. of that which the not average but excessive civilization of our century produces. Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone, 423 …
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THE TREE OF GOOD – OUR BREAD. Time travel along the Mediterranean routes, by Diego Lorenzi
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Tree of Good Food Culture Solidarity Our Bread Journey through time along the Mediterranean routes The meaning of bread in monotheistic religious traditions and its transformation in the contemporary world "Bread is the fruit of the earth blessed by light" Friedrich Hölderlin It's about…
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50 Shades of Grimoon, by Elisa Padoan
Reading time: 10 minutes Warm is the embrace of the Dream when it becomes a child and comes to remind us of the needs of the soul. And so Grimoon's animation becomes an extension of musical imagery, because sometimes words aren't enough to enter a world made up of worlds. Grimoons are a…
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Faces and implications of the competition. “Classici Contro” in action in Vicenza with “Eris. Archeology of conflict”, by Valeria Melis
Reading time: 16 minutes After the forced stop due to the pandemic, the Classici Contro have finally returned to Vicenza with Eris. Archeology of conflict. The research group of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, created by the professors of Greek literature and classical philology, Alberto Camerotto and Filippomaria Pontani, went into action on…
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THE WEAVER OF THE WIND BY ROMANO AUGUSTO FIOCCHI – A visionary Venice with homage to Joyce, by Marco Reali
Reading Time: 11 minutes “Weave, weaver of the wind”. Weave, wind weaver. In a passage from Joyce's Ulysses the character and alter ego Stephen Dedalus indulges in flashing reflections on the possibilities of History. What could have happened if certain events had not happened? “If Pirro had not fallen to…
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