by Petra Cason Olivares Mentioning “Bugatti”, to anyone today would be natural the connection with the famous Alsatian automotive company probably vaguely recalling the elegant forms of “fin de siècle” car body. However, few people would associate the name Bugatti to the figure of Carlo, father of the automotive entrepreneur Ettore, fine cabinetmaker and surprising

by Salvo Taranto It is the “futuristic novel” par excellence, so to define itself like that in its subtitle. Il Codice di Perelà (Perelà’s Code) is a strange creature brought forth by Aldo Palazzeschi in Milan in 1911. They were times of great opposition to the traditional novel, a resistance led mainly by the magazine

by Francesca Codeluppi Elizabeth II is an object woman. It would seem to be the incipit of yet another sociological essay on the condition of women in our time, to highlight the difficulties and harshnesses that belong to gentle sex at times. But no: the above statement is targeted, reasoned and literally understood. Back from

by Rossella Romito It would be interesting to mount a camera and film the facial expressions of people watching for the first time Riccardo Guasco’s illustrations. Expressions would be somewhere between amused, enraptured, amazed and floored. From the first glance it is clear that among his models are especially artistic movements such as Cubism and

by Salvo Taranto Gianrico Carofiglio called it “the most beautiful bookshop in the quantum universe” and he is, by no means, not the only one who thinks so. Many other Italian and foreign authors fell in love with a place where classic and modern atmospheres enhance each other. Palazzo Roberti library is since 1998 a

by Rossella Romito Who knows if in the twenties, while planning a wooden model similar to the future glass equivalent, Fortunato Depero thought that after 80 years, we would have continued to talk about his bottle designed for the Campari Soda. It is obvious that we will never know it, but we cannot deny that

di Nuccio Rotolo The Fascist period still appears as a field of study, full of ideas. Arouse interest, for example, the complex and sometimes obscure institutional dynamics that have presided over the idea of State Architecture, which, recognizable throughout the “boot”, including the islands, characterizes the image of the State throughout the national territory. Ports,

di L.M.F. The pursuit of happiness, including the erotic one, is innate in man, but you can learn how to get there. Word of Betty Rose, creator, and she’s the only one in Italy, of the Bon Ton Burlesque, which comes from a purely Italian idea, inspired by the Teatro di Rivista, and to which

by Amélie Giannotta We studied at school, too young, we did not understand the scope. But  that seller of almanacs that tried to convince the traveller to purchase his almanac, in the famous Operetta Morale by Leopardi of 1832, he would have been lucky if under the arm he had had the Barbanera. Nowadays, in

by Giovanni Ballarini An elite gastronomic critic, in and of itself truncated, at least partly is wrong. The food critics should not even become a “profession”, even less a “sentence”, both for those who do it and for the sufferer. The condemnation of a profession that requires every week, fifty weeks a year, writing an