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ROTA IN RIGA
R – ROTA IN RIGA Soundtrack of many cult films, masterpieces of an era, Nino Rota’s music seems to reach straight to the heart of the audience, while enclosing an extraordinary rhythmic, harmonic and stylistic complexity that makes them far superior to any merely contemporary musical product “commercial”. Basically it’s popular music, since it is […]
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The Mediterranean traces the routes of civilization
“History is the key to understanding Sicily, even more necessary than to understand any other human community”, wrote the Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia. If there is a catalyst center for many historical events that determined the destiny of Sicily, this center is undoubtedly the Mediterranean.“Liquid continent” defined it Fernand Braudel. The most beautiful testimonies of […]
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Like the owl by day
This is the Shakespearean quote, taken from Henry IV, in the initial part of one of Leonardo Sciascia’s most representative masterpieces, Il Giorno della Civetta (1961). “Just as the owl is a nocturnal animal and becomes an object of wonder if it appears during the day, so the mafia in Sicily is losing its nocturnal […]
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TUSCANIA A STORY OF PAST TIMES
Tuscania is out of the way and still no one, who is not from those places, knows the beautiful path that leads from Etruscan and papal Vetralla to Etruscan and papal Tuscania between meadows and woods. “Long shadows ran on the ground, the first shadows of the evening ran from west to east similar to […]
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Puglia and the souls of the dead
My journey into the traditional culture of Southern Italy this time takes me to Puglia. We are exactly in Manfredonia. Here it is not the Befana, the good witch of the children’s Christmas fantasy, who fills the sock, but the dear departed ones pay homage to the children of Puglia. It is not Halloween in […]
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Rocco Taliano Grasso. The pedagogical and intellectualistic action by Pier Paolo Pasolini, 20th century Italian artist and intellectual
I want to write about someone who in my opinion is one of the greatest artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century, that is Pier Paolo Pasolini (Bologna, 5 March 1922 – Rome, 2 November 1975). He was an Italian poet, screenwriter, actor, director, writer and playwright. Contemporary art, especially in the sixties and seventies, […]
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Wine relais. Sleeping in the vineyards and discovering the secrets of wine
Autumn is that season, where you imagine yourself sipping a glass of wine in front of a lit fireplace, or dining in a barrel and sleeping among the vineyards that are tinged with the warm colors of yellows, oranges and reds. The soul gives way to slowness, the days begin to shorten and the desire […]
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BERLIN WALL
On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall collapsed, the quintessential symbol of the Cold War. More than thirty years have passed since an event that marked the troubled history of the twentieth century. The history of the wall begins after the destruction of the city in 1945 by the Red Army, Germany divided into four […]
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The principality of Seborga, an ancient fairy tale in the heart of Liguria
There is a small village (sorry, a principality) nestled in the dazzling green hills of the far west of Liguria and overlooking a sea so blue that in the distance it seems painted. Along the alleys and in the medieval squares the white and blue flags of the kingdom flutter in the west wind that […]
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Horses of the sea
About thirty years ago, the Strait of Messina, especially in its Ionian offshoot, represented one of the favorite homes of an extraordinarily intriguing fish: the seahorse. It was in September 1997, in the sea of Saline Joniche in Calabria, that I interacted, for the first time, with a pair of Hippocampus (this is its scientific […]
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