Andrew Marvell, born on 31 March 1621, was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician. He was a member of the Puritan Parliament and became Milton’s assistant in his job as Latin Secretary.He wrote satires, political poems and love songs, among which To his Coy Mistress is particularly famous and considered the best recognised carpe… Read More Marvell and his Coy Mistress
Il 28 marzo scorso è morto all’età di 85 anni Enrico Vaime. E’ stato autore televisivo, teatrale, radiofonico e ha spesso firmato i suoi lavori in coppia con Italo Terzoli, con cui aveva costituito la ditta artistica Terzoli & Vaime.Ha al suo attivo numerosi libri, e alcuni dei titoli rappresentano brillanti aforismi, come “Tutti possono… Read More Enrico Vaime
Ronald Stuart Thomas, who published as R. S. Thomas, was born on 29 March 1913 and died in 2000He was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest who was noted for his nationalism and spirituality: he wrote about the people of his country , the values of the common man, focusing on the difficulties of rural… Read More Here
Marc Chagall was born in 1887 died on 28 March 1985He was a Russian-French-Jewish artist and one of the most influential modernist artists of the 20th Century. He was a painter, book illustrator, ceramicist, stained-glass painter, stage set designer and tapestry maker. Here is one of his wonderful paintings A Horse at Night Terrible a… Read More Marc Chagall and Ferlinghetti’ Horse
On 27 March 1957 “Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera Sera)” from the Alfred Hitchcock movie “The Man Who Knew Too Much” wins the Academy Award for Best Original Song. When I was just a little girlI asked my mother, what will I beWill I be prettyWill I be richHere’s what she said to… Read More Que Sera Sera 🎶
Robert Frost, one of the most celebrated figures in American poetry, was born in San Francisco on 26 March 1874. He died in Boston in 1963 His first poetry collection was “A Boy’s Will” published in 1913. “A Prayer in Spring” is its tenth poem: it describes the greatness of love found not in distant… Read More A Prayer in Spring🏵
A Light exists in SpringNot present on the YearAt any other period –When March is scarcely hereA Color stands abroadOn Solitary FieldsThat Science cannot overtakeBut Human Nature feels. It waits upon the Lawn,It shows the furthest TreeUpon the furthest Slope you knowIt almost speaks to you. Then as Horizons stepOr Noons report awayWithout the Formula… Read More “A Light exists in Spring…”
William Morris, born on 24 March 1834, was an English designer, poet, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. His long poem “The Earthly Paradise” consists of a series of narrative poems that follow the plan of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. It is made up of twenty-four stories, two per month,… Read More March 🌺
👉 L’elettricità (1): Volta e la pila👉 L’elettricità (2): Galvani e la rana👉 L’elettricità (3): Aldini e i cadaveri Gli esperimenti di Aldini con i cadaveri, condotti in pubblico e con grande senso dello spettacolo, attrassero notevole attenzione. Ai corpi venivano applicati più terminali elettrificati: il passaggio della corrente pareva ridestarli causando convulsioni e contrazioni… Read More L’elettricità (4): Mary Shelley e Frankenstein
👉 L’elettricità (1): Volta e la pila👉 L’elettricità (2): Galvani e la rana L’ aspra diatriba sull’origine e sulle forme dell’elettricità spaccò il mondo accademico in due fazioni, Galvaniani e Voltiani, Durante le discussioni, Galvani mostrava che anche in assenza di metalli le rane morte si muovevano mentre Volta rivelava la presenza di corrente dovuta… Read More L’elettricità (3): Aldini e i cadaveri
