International Translation Day is celebrated every year on 30 September, on the feast of St. Jerome, to pay tribute to the work of translators and interpreters who try to make the world a slightly smaller place by breaking down language barriers. The patron saint of translators is St. Jerome, a Christian scholar and… Read More 30 September: International Translation Day
“29 Settembre” Seduto in quel caffè io non pensavo a te… Guardavo il mondo che girava intorno a me… Poi d’improvviso lei sorrise e ancora prima di capire mi trovai sottobraccio a lei stretto come se non ci fosse che lei. Vedevo solo lei e non pensavo a te… E tutta la città correva incontro… Read More 29 settembre: la data famosa da 50 anni
Confucius, the influential Chinese philosopher, teacher, and politician, was born on 28 September. He is famous for his popular aphorisms and his models of social interaction. His philosophy emphasized morality, correctness, justice and sincerity. His teachings, collected in the “Analects” (i.e. “selected passages”), are as applicable to us today as they were in the fourth… Read More Confucius (28 September 551 BC – 479 BC)
Ieri sera, al Teatro San Rocco di Seregno, è ricominciato il cineforum, con “Café Society”, il 47° film di Woody Allen. Racconta una storia d’amore mancata e ribadisce temi a lui cari : il cinema, le donne, le nevrosi. E’ un film corale, ambientato nella seconda metà degli anni Trenta, attraversato dalla voce narrante che… Read More CINEFORUM: “Café Society”
26 September 46 BC – Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the Battle of Pharsalus. Roman politician and general Julius Caesar was born in 100 BC of a patrician family, and rose through the political and military ranks of Republican Rome to… Read More 26 September 46 BC
St. Anathalon was the first recorded Bishop of Milan, Italy, who lived between the end of the 2nd century and the beginning of the 3rd-century. He is honoured as a Saint in the Catholic Church and his feast day is on September 25 in Milan. Yet, according to another tradition, he was the first bishop… Read More 24/25 September: Saint Anathalon
Sulla piazza antistante la Chiesa prepositurale del mio paese, Carate Brianza, si erge la statua di Sant’Anatalone che regge una croce di ferro. È parte integrante del paesaggio urbano, e, quando all’inizio del secolo scorso si pensò di rimuoverla per far posto ad una torretta in cui alloggiare una cabina elettrica ed una pompa per… Read More Sant’Anatalone
Edgar Allan Poe first met Virginia Clemm in 1829, shortly after his mother’s death, when she was 7 years old, and he was 20. Their parents, his natural father and her mother were siblings, and Edgar, who had moved into their house, probably transferred the feelings for his mother to his Aunt Maria, and later… Read More 22 September 1835 – E. A. Poe marries his 13-year-old cousin
Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, painter, poet, and novelist, whose work dealt with religion, politics, isolation, sexuality, and relationships. He was born into a middle-class Jewish family who told him, when he was a child, that he was “a descendant of Aaron, the high… Read More 21 September 1934: Leonard Cohen
On 18 September 1917, 23-year-old Aldous Huxley, future author of “Brave New World “ was hired as a schoolmaster at Eton. Huxley was born into a prominent family. His grandfather was a famous zoologist and his father was a writer and a respected schoolmaster. Aldous hoped to become a scientist like his… Read More Huxley & Orwell
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