Ieri sera sulla piattaforma Zoom ha avuto luogo “La festa degli autori” – un evento gioioso legato al concorso nazionale “Racconti da Sogno” – organizzata dal curatore dell’antologia, Stefano Andrini.Nel corso della magica serata, piena di parole, musica, emozioni e speranze, sono stati letti alcuni incipit dei racconti pubblicati, tra cui il mio. La mia… Read More La festa degli autori
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Democrat who served as the President of the United States from 1933 to 1945, was born on 30 January 1882 In the “State of the Union Address to the Congress”, a speech delivered in 1941, he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people “everywhere in the world” should enjoy: “The first is… Read More The Four Freedoms
Il 29 gennaio 842 Michele III diventò imperatore d’Oriente, in seguito alla morte del padre Teofilo. Michele però aveva solo due anni, quindi la reggenza fu assunta dalla madre Teodora. Durante il regno di Teofilo non solo era iniziata la rinascita culturale bizantina, ma l’imperatore aveva anche cercato di migliorare le finanze dello stato e… Read More Michele III l’Ubriacone (parte 1)
Yesterday was the birthday of Lewis Carroll, pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, born on 27 January 1832.The author of the children’s classics “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and its sequel “Through the Looking-Glass”, was also a mathematician, a photographer, an inventor, and an Anglican deacon (1). The last novel he published during his lifetime was “Sylvie… Read More Lewis Carroll
“Prima di tutto vennero a prendere gli zingari,e fui contento, perché rubacchiavano. Poi vennero a prendere gli ebrei,e stetti zitto, perché mi stavano antipatici. Poi vennero a prendere gli omosessuali,e fui sollevato, perché mi erano fastidiosi. Poi vennero a prendere i comunisti,e io non dissi niente, perché non ero comunista. Un giorno vennero a prendere… Read More Giorno della Memoria
In a previous post (see here) I wrote that Effie Gray posed as a model for “The Eve of St. Agnes”, a nineteenth century interpretation of Keats’s ballad.The painting was the work of Millais and at the time Effie was his wife. Euphemia Gray, affectionately known as Effie, met John Everett Millais while she was… Read More Effie Gray’s physical flaw
Antônio Carlos Jobim, meglio conosciuto come Tom Jobim, nacque a Rio de Janeiro il 25 gennaio 1927.Compositore e cantante brasiliano è il considerato padre del genere bossa nova, che portò in giro per il mondo negli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta.Le sue melodie più celebri, tra cui il brano “Garota de Ipanema” (interpretata da grandi artisti… Read More Tom Jobim 🎶
These beautiful words were written by Edith Wharton, an American novelist, short story writer, and designer who was born on 24 January 1862She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1921 for her novel “The Age of Innocence” She loved dogs, although she seldom included them in her fiction: they… Read More 🐕”My little dog – a heartbeat at my feet” 🐕
You can read the first part of Keats’s ballad here. Madeline wakes up and she realizes that her dream vision of Porphyro does not correspond to the man she has before her eyes: reality does not meet up with her expectations. “How chang’d thou art! how pallid, chill, and drear!Give me that voice again, my… Read More “The Eve of St. Agnes” (3) – Poem (Second Part)
English poet George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, was born on 22 January 1788, into a family of fast-decaying nobility.He died in Missolonghi, in Greece, on 19 April 1824, at the age of 36, from a relapsing fever (possibly malaria) as well as the poor medical practices of the time. Lord Byron wrote the poem… Read More “On this Day I Complete my Thirty-Sixth Year”
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