We live in a time when the truth is something that can be changed, dressed up in blinding colours... LA VERITÀ Trilussa La Verità che stava in fonno ar pozzoUna vorta strillò: - Correte, gente,Chè l’acqua m’è arivata ar gargarozzo! -La folla corse subbitoCo’ le corde e le scale: ma un PretozzoTrovò ch’era un affare sconveniente.- Prima…Read more Trilussa: La verità / The truth
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Trilussa: Mania de persecuzzione / Perrsecution complex
What is about dictators that make them so touchy, so paranoid? It’s as if, for them, their own shadows are out to get them; so they ban, censor, limit, arrest, deport, destroy…because it's very hard to be on the wrong side of history: people may notice. This is the first thing I thought of when…Read more Trilussa: Mania de persecuzzione / Perrsecution complex
Ciant da li ciampanis/ Chant of the church bells by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Ciant da li ciampanis Pier Paolo Pasolini Co la sera a si pièrt ta li fontanis il me país al è colòur smarít. Jo i soi lontàn, recuardi li so ranis, la luna, il trist tintinulà dai gris. A bat Rosari, pai pras al si scunís: jo i soj muàrt al ciant da li ciampanis.…Read more Ciant da li ciampanis/ Chant of the church bells by Pier Paolo Pasolini
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