Unsung heroes: the Italian Resistance

When your body no longer exists, your spirit will be even more alive in the memory of those who remain – Make it so that it may forever serve as an example. - Sabato Martelli Castaldi Sabato Martelli Castaldi Di anni 47 – generale di Brigata Aerea – nato a Cava dei Tirreni (Salerno) il…Read more Unsung heroes: the Italian Resistance

Nanni Balestrini: bisogna andarsene da qui/ we must leave here

bisogna andarsene da qui Nanni Balestrini bisogna andarsene da qui abitare il mondo intero non frammenti separati del mondo il mondo reale non è un oggetto è un processo qualsiasi cosa causa ogni altra cosa le cose devono entrare in noi l'istante è sempre una rinascita we must leave here Nanni Balestrini we must…Read more Nanni Balestrini: bisogna andarsene da qui/ we must leave here

Catulle Mendès & Patricia Worth: Le Soir d’une fleur / A Flower’s Evening

"The passing poet has a duty to collect what remains of human joy, the sadness that is like the dregs of happy things; and from them he makes verses." Catulle Mendès Le Soir d’une fleur Catulle Mendès (1887) On l’avait jetée, pendant cette fête, de voiture en voiture ; lancée au hasard, attrapée,…Read more Catulle Mendès & Patricia Worth: Le Soir d’une fleur / A Flower’s Evening

On fascism: Pertini, Bobbio, Bassani, Calvino, Pasolini, Gramsci, Calamandrei…

"The twenty years of fascism was not, as some unmindful wretch would like to think, twenty years of order and national greatness: it was twenty years of disgraceful illegality, humiliation, moral corrosion, daily suffocation, silent and subterranean moral disgregation." - Piero Calamandrei Sandro Pertini Il fascismo per me non può essere considerato una fede politica.…Read more On fascism: Pertini, Bobbio, Bassani, Calvino, Pasolini, Gramsci, Calamandrei…