Book therapy
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Hippocrates would be skeptical, Kafka would be less, Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin believe it strongly: you can be cured with books. They are the authors of the volume The novel cure – An A-Z of Literary Remedies where they talk about book therapy, the art, so to speak, to treat themselves with books. The
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Selfie is trendy
Wednesday, 29 January 2014
The Oxford University and its software to test the popularity of the new terms introduced into English language, chose “selfie” as a new word of 2013 and decided to put it in the Oxford Dictionary. The frequency of this word in English language has increased by 17,000% compared to 2012 and is the first English
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Mathematics engravings. Reggio Emilia pays homage to Escher
Wednesday, 29 January 2014
It was the early twenties when a young Dutch engraver, to recover from a deep depression, arrived in Italy and, in a kind of twentieth-century Grand Tour, visited cities and regions that made him fall in love. Siena, Abruzzo, villages in Calabria perched on the mountains, they became subject of the landscape woodcuts of Maurits
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Curiosity e-book: Toxophilus, archery and philosophy
Wednesday, 29 January 2014
In ancient culture and poetry, archery played a major role. Without resorting to mythology, great historical importance (not just for fans of archery) is played by the Toxophilus, a singular treatise in dialogue form published in 1545 in London by Roger Ascham. Greek scholar and tutor of Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen Elizabeth I Tudor,
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Mathematics engravings. Reggio Emilia pays homage to Escher
Wednesday, 29 January 2014
It was the early twenties when a young Dutch engraver, to recover from a deep depression, arrived in Italy and, in a kind of twentieth-century Grand Tour, visited cities and regions that made him fall in love. Siena, Abruzzo, villages in Calabria perched on the mountains, they became subject of the landscape woodcuts of Maurits
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Hugo Pratt, nemo propheta in patria
Wednesday, 29 January 2014
Hugo Pratt is one of the authors who contributed the most to maximize the potential of comics world by renewing the rules of different genres through his ability to mix history, fantasy, reality, fiction, adventure and humor. In 1945, Mauro Fastinelli and Alberto Ongaro founded the magazine Albo Uragano (Hurricane album) – later known as
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Cats and art: iconography of a household deity (part two)
Wednesday, 29 January 2014
Emperor Augustus loved so much his cat that in his De vita sua called it his companion, his equal and equal to gods. Ancient Roman priests so highly regarded cats to allow them to enter into temples, perhaps for fear of offending Diana, who – as told by Hyginus – had the power to transform
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Design in 400 words: Silvia Censi
Wednesday, 29 January 2014
I met Silvia during a cooking course which was held in a friends’ restaurant, not that I’m a cooking-lover woman… not nearly. I do not know how yet, but I created some tortelli, physically making the pasta and the filling, amazing! It’s just like chef Gusteau says in Disney’s “Ratatouille”: “anyone can cook”. Returning to
Whodunit, blue cat? From thesis to book
Wednesday, 29 January 2014
New presentation for the newest Fermoeditore book, Whodunit, blue cat?. This time the location was in Milan, in I.E.D. (European Institute of Design) headquarters. Title of the meeting, “Whodunit, blue cat?: from thesis to book.” The authors were there, once again – Giulia Coppola, Silvia Magnani and Paolo Zadra – and they explained their project
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On the wings of bookcrossing
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Futurists had their loved “words in freedom”. The new century, despite the advent of e-books and e-book readers, finds its form of editorial freedom in bookcrossing. Initiative launched in 2001, which consists essentially in distributing free books identified by a code to follow their path. The distribution takes place through dedicated and unpaid initiatives during
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