150 anni fa moriva a Parigi CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (1821 – 1867), uno dei più importanti poeti dell’Ottocento, esponente chiave del simbolismo, grande innovatore del genere lirico, e anticipatore del decadentismo. “Les fleurs du mal” (I fiori del male – 1857) la sua opera maggiore, è considerata uno dei classici della letteratura francese e mondiale. Per… Read More 31 agosto 1867: muore Charles Baudelaire
According to the Synoptic Gospels, John the Baptist was beheaded on this day in the fortress of Machaerus under the hand of Herod Antipater. John was in prison because he had disapproved of Herod’s decision to divorce his wife and wed Herodias, his brother’s wife . One day, while John was there, Herod… Read More 29 August: Beheading of St. John the Baptist
August 28th is the anniversary of the “I Have a Dream” Speech , given by Martin Luther King, Jr. on August 28, 1963 at the historic “March on Washington.” King’s memorable, repeated use of that phrase was not included in the written version of the speech, in which he had consciously decided to omit it… Read More I Have a Dream
Guillaume Apollinaire (26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French writer of Polish descent. He is considered one of the primary literary figures of the early twentieth century, whose career influenced the development important artistic movements, such as Futurism, Cubism, Dadaism, and Surrealism. According to most sources, Apollinaire was born… Read More Guillaume Apollinaire
On August 24, in the year AD 79, Vesuvius erupted in one of the most catastrophic and famous eruptions of all time. Historians have learned about it from the eyewitness account of Pliny the Younger, a Roman administrator and poet, who was seventeen at the time, to the historian Tacitus. He was in… Read More 24 August 79 AD
Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752 – 24 August 1770) was an English poet , regarded as one of the forerunners of the Romantic Age, and a heroic tragic figure in Romantic art. He was able to pass off his poems as the work of an imaginary fifteenth-century Bristol cleric called Thomas Rowley, chiefly… Read More Chatterton
Era stanco di quella vita faticosa, arrivata alla soglia di un inverno in cui a dominare sarebbero stati solo ricordi da dimenticare, Ed era adirato con quella morte ostile che si ostinava ad evitarlo. Anche il corpo era stanco, stanco e provato. Da anni non ne era più totalmente il padrone, e lo… Read More L’addio ai monti
Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter, widely known for his dystopian novel “Fahrenheit 451” (1953). This work presents a future society where books are outlawed and firemen are tasked with burning any that they find. Books promote free thinking: that’s why they have been slowly… Read More Ray Bradbury
Il 19 agosto 1936 moriva Federico García Lorca. Bella e il vento di Federico Garcia Lorca a Dámaso Alonso La sua luna di pergamena Bella suonando viene, per un anfibio sentiero di cristalli e d’allori. Il silenzio senza stelle, fuggendo la cantilena cade dove il mare batte e canta la sua notte piena di pesci.… Read More Federico Garcia Lorca
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was… Read More Lolita
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