Si tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le désir de la mer grande et belle. Se vuoi costruire una barca, non radunare uomini per tagliare legna, dividere i compiti e impartire ordini,… Read More Se vuoi…
Soffocante afrore profumo di gioia e ansia delusione eccitazione giovinezza e sogni. Ho visto dipanarsi davanti a me mille vite ne ho condiviso umori speranze emozioni. E questo mi ha lasciata infinitamente più ricca.
A few days ago I watched this film for the second time, and I liked it very much. I’m talking about “A Royal Affair”, a Danish film about the mentally ill King Christian VII of Denmark, his wife Caroline Matilda of Great Britain, and the royal physician Johann Friedrich Struensee. The story is set in… Read More A Royal Affair
From 1562 to 1598, France saw a series of bloody wars between Catholics and Protestant Huguenots, called “the French Wars of Religion” , which ended with the Edict of Nantes, issued in 1598 by King Henry IV, a treaty that fostered religious tolerance. Nine years earlier, “le bon roi Henri” (the good king Henry)… Read More 25 July 1593: “Paris is worth a Mass”
24 july 1911 – Hiram Bingham re-discovers Machu Picchu, “the Lost City of the Incas”. Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel situated in the middle of a tropical mountain forest on the eastern slopes of the Peruvian Andes, in the Cusco Region. In the Quechua native language, “Machu Picchu” means “Old Peak” or “Old… Read More 24 july 1911: H. Bingham discovers Machu Picchu
Today, Rastafarians mark the birthday of Haile Selassie I, former Emperor of Ethiopia, who is regarded as God. Haile Selassie I (23 July 1892 – 27 August 1975), was Ethiopia’s regent from 1916 to 1930 and emperor from 1930 to 1974. He also served as Chairperson of the Organisation of African Unity . The Rastafari… Read More Haile Selassie
Mary Magdalene was the Jewish woman who, according to texts included in the New Testament, travelled with Jesus as one of his followers. When all the men abandoned him , Mary of Magdala was one of the women who remained. She was present at the Crucifixion, and at the tomb, and she was the… Read More 22 July: St. Mary Magdalene’s feast day
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. He won the Nobel prize for literature in 1954. In a letter (9 April 1945), he wrote: “All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”… Read More Ernest Hemingway
Known in English as Petrarch, Francesco Petrarca was born on July 20, 1304, in the city of Arezzo, in central Italy, just south of Florence. He was an enthusiastic classical scholar and is considered the founder of Humanism, a philosophy associated with the flourishing of the Renaissance. From 1327 to 1368, Petrarch wrote… Read More 20 July 1304 – 1374: Francesco Petrarca
Lo vidi entrare tenendola tra le braccia. La tavola non era ancora pronta e lui la sciolse dalla stretta e ve l’adagiò sopra, con delicatezza. Lei sembrava pronta. Cominciò ad accarezzarle le carni fresche, bianche. Con lenti gesti d’amore. Avrei voluto andarmene ma ero attratta da quel rito, misterico, affascinante Lei era pallida,… Read More Arrendevolezza
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