“La Lettura”, waiting for the turn of the new century
Monday, 29 January 2018
What could be the expectations of a potential reader who, at the dawn of the twentieth century, wants to prepare himself to receive a new illustrated magazine? In the presentation of the new monthly magazine of the “Corriere della Sera”, it has been reaffirmed that the magazine will have a “modern, essentially modern” program, where
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Great desire of Belle Époque
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
A dream of Art Nouveau architecture, it enclosed in a building that excites and pampers body and soul. Berzieri thermal baths in Salsomaggiore, from the name of the doctor Lorenzo Berzieri, designed by the artist Galileo Chini, are still an attraction for tens of thousands of tourists, including many Americans and Britons fascinated by the
Noise and light: New York according to Giacomo Bevilacqua
Sunday, 21 January 2018
by Laura Fornasari New York is noise and light. The uninterrupted traffic noise, and the far cry of sirens. Did you know that New Yorkers say it’s impossible to make a phone call without being interrupted by at least one siren? But New York designed by Giacomo Bevilacqua is made of colors and stains of shadows
Auxiliary Territorial Service, Junior Commander No. 230873
Saturday, 13 January 2018
by Andrea Di Betta “To be, or not to be that is the question/ whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer/ the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune/ or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them.” From the beginning of the seventeenth century this dilemma, forged by William
Kate Beaton: Rewriting History. In comics
Thursday, 11 January 2018
by Laura Fornasari Kate Beaton (born in 1983, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian cartoonist author of the online collections series of comic strips under the name “Hark! A Va- grant”. After graduating in history and anthropology, and having worked in the marine museum of British Columbia, she decided to test herself com- bining the two
Will aliens, or singing koalas, save us?
Sunday, 07 January 2018
Longing of celebrations? Do you think that we write when the Tree observes us with its flashing lights and gifts: Movie! Before we dive into the mini feast of works waiting for us we have a titbit for you. It is titled Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, the story of an eccentric and inexperienced detective,
In a group of elected: Mary Shelley
Tuesday, 02 January 2018
by Laura Fornasari It is legend the story of the group that met at Villa Diodati, in Switzerland, in the gloomy atmosphere of 1816, the year without summer. Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley and Claire Clairmont and John W. Polidori: housebound by bad weather and inspired by reading Gothic novels, they challenged each others to
Perturbing Balthus
Friday, 29 December 2017
The bed is unmade. She is completely naked, there is a lit oil lamp and a moth – a butterfly symbol of death, but also of transformation and research of light – which flutters, perhaps the light annoys it. But is the girl alone? Or there is a man, somewhere, that observes her? Another painting
Turin smells of paper. International
Thursday, 21 December 2017
by Salvo Taranto The elegance comes from a classic, timeless beauty, the long history prestige that sits among its shelves and the people who have set foot over the decades. Immense authors like Primo Levi, Jorge Amado, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Roth and Amos Oz. The International Luxemburg Library is located in one of the loveliest
Bodoni Museum in Parma: the perfect book factory
Tuesday, 19 December 2017
In order to visit a museum you sometimes have to ascend a monumental staircase, or perhaps two. The first one was designed for Palazzo della Pilotta in Parma by Farnese dukes’ architect Simone Moschino around 1608, and leads to the triple entrance of the National Gallery, Farnese Theatre and Palatine Library. After having crossed the