Christmas in Casentino with traditional sweets: Panforte and Panpepato

When it comes to Christmas sweets, it must be made clear that each Italian region has its own specialities; however, the Tuscan ones are those that enjoy popularity beyond their regional borders.

by Alberta Piroci Branciaroli

15 Dicembre 2022

Generation Pasolini: an afternoon at the theater

Generation Pasolini, by Marta Bulgherini, with Marta Bulgherini and Nicolas Zappa. Ostia, Theater of the Lido. Ginevra Sanfelice Lilli interviews Marta Bulgherini

by Ginevra Sanfelice Lilli

15 Dicembre 2022

Hannah Senesh and Jewish Women's Poetry

With the waves of Aliyah, the immigration from the Diaspora to the Land of Israel, Jewish poetry enters an extraordinary phase by linking itself to the history of the creation of the Jewish state. One of the most prominent female figures is Hannah Senesh

by Vittorio Mascarini

15 Dicembre 2022

Shelley's stay in Este. Paolo Gobbi interviews Francesco Rognoni

On the bicentenary of the death of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1822 - 2022) it is necessary to remember the figure of the most important English poet of the nineteenth century, framing it above all in the period that coincides with his stay in Este (Padua)

by Paolo Gobbi

15 Dicembre 2022

Christ Stopped at Eboli: Carlo Levi & Francesco Rosi

The year 2022 marks the 120th anniversary of Carlo Levi’s birth. Aliano, the town that the Turin writer immortalised and made world-renowned in his book Christ Stopped at Eboli could not forsake commemorating him

by Vito Angelo Colangelo

14 Dicembre 2022

The Weight of Emptiness: A Journey through Memories and Metaphors in the Literary Park of Carlo Levi

In the late spring of 2022 I visited the Carlo Levi Literary Park in Aliano as part of a pilgrimage through the Italian natural spaces that inspired famous literary figures.

by Domenica Santomaggio Diraviam

14 Dicembre 2022

The Poet and the Painter: Ginevra Sanfelice Lilli

Ginevra Sanfelice Lilli comes to terms with the world but in the universe she seeks words, poetry and dreams. Ginevra lives and works in the heart of Rome, near the Tiber River. Interview by Adriana Pedone

by Adriana Pedone

14 Dicembre 2022

Francis, the Italian Nativity Scene and La Verna

Francis received the stigmata at the sanctuary of La Verna, which became the destination of an ever growing pilgrimage.

by Sara Trapani

14 Dicembre 2022

Concert for Peace in Honour of Aurelia Josz at the Royal Villa of Monza

Amy Rosenthal's speech on the occasion of the Peace Concert on 22 October 2022 at the Reggia di Monza in front of the political personalities of the territory of the Valle del Lambro Regional Park.

by Amy K. Rosenthal

13 Dicembre 2022

Benedetto Croce and Neapolitan Legends

“When I look back at my childhood in search of the first signs of what I would later become, I find again in my memory the avidity with which I listened to all sorts of tales, the joy of the first books that came into my hands.”

di Gennaro Cardenio

The dreamlike dimension of Federico Fellini: the meeting with Ernst Bernhard

Amy K. Rosenthal discusses with Anselma Dell'Olio, film critic and director of the acclaimed documentary Fellini degli Spiriti [Fellini of the Spirits] (2020), Bernhard and his impact on Fellini

di Amy K. Rosenthal

The Mission of Memory. Christian Herrmann on the traces of the ‘Hidden Holocaust’ *

German photograph and blogger Christian Herrmann documents long-forgotten traces and sites of Jewish heritage in Eastern Europe. For his extensive work to counter this slide into oblivion, 2021 he was awarded with the German Bundesverdienstkreuz

di Giovanni V.R. Sorge