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Historic pharmacies. The most beautiful pharmacies in Italy
”Now the showgirls no longer marry the players but the pharmacists.” The joke circulates on social media and does not need explanations. It tells, with a hint of sarcasm, the Covid times we are living in. And it sounds strange because this category, if we notice it, almost never ended up in the spotlight. Yet, […]
Continua a leggereThe Library of Humanism
“Founding libraries is like building public granaries”, wrote the emperor Hadrian. Brunello Cucinelli was inspired by his wise words for a new, visionary and ambitious project: the Solomeo Universal Library. It will be built in the eighteenth-century villa Guidarello, to be adapted to a project….
Continua a leggereTher dream of Solomeo
Solomeo is a small saved it from abandonment by transforming it, without distorting…
Continua a leggereBRUNELLO CUCINELLI. Chachemire for passion, ethics and dignity for mission
There is a draconian rule in the Umbrian village of Solomeo, kingdom of Brunello Cucinelli and his humanistic capitalism, nestled on the hill and lapped by the Caina stream. “The first principle? Anyone who treats someone badly gets fired on the spot. The cleaners here are called people who put things in order.
Continua a leggereImmersion in the Mediterranean. A different sea: that of the night.
The evening when the handcrafted lamp built by my friend Gigi turned on the colors of a narrow stretch of water in my Ionian Sea, is one of the adolescent memories that I carry indelibly within me. I was nineteen and for the first time I was about to face, in the dark darkness of […]
Continua a leggereJoyce and the psycho-journey of Ulysses
What is the most famous day in the history of literature? Undoubtedly it is June 16, 1904, that is the long day in which the Irish writer James Joyce chose to set Ulysses, a masterpiece that this year turns a century (published on February 2, 1922, on the author’s birthday)…
Continua a leggereDalì in Siena. From Galileo Galilei to surrealism: an exhibition not to be missed until April 30th
What do Salvador Dalì and Galileo Galilei have in common? Until April 30, in a magnificent Renaissance palace in the historic center of Siena, the genius of two giants of the past is contaminated in an original exhibition. Dalì in Siena: from Galileo Galilei to Surrealism, organized by The Dalì Universe, proposes a journey …
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Michele Affidato, orafo ufficiale di Area Sanremo
di Redazione Da dieci anni firma i premi speciali del Festival di Sanremo, ora si conferma “orafo ufficiale di Area Sanremo” Il maestro orafo Michele Affidato è diventato un punto di riferimento per la creazione dei premi speciali che realizza sia per il Festival che per gli eventi collaterali della kermesse. Con le sue […]
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Il Museo della Marineria di Cesenatico
di Bianca Sestini Il trabaccolo Cidia e il bragozzo Vigo compiranno un secolo l’anno prossimo. I loro scafi svettano al centro della Sezione a Terra del Museo della Marineria di Cesenatico. Le vele “al terzo” (particolari tipi di vela, con forma trapezoidale) che li sormontano spiegate si sono gonfiate di vento per portarli al […]
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La corrida. Tragedia in tre atti
di Lory Cocconcelli* Il cruento spettacolo, di origine antichissima, arrestato non dalla compassione umana, ma dalle normative Covid Sebbene le origini della corrida siano incerte – secondo alcune fonti risalirebbero ai giouchi greci e romani, secondo altre al tempo della dominazione musulmana –, la sua diffusione è senz’altro da attribuire alla Spagna, paese […]
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