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Salvatore Quasimodo: Ad Auschwitz/ In Auschwitz

“You will find them, soldier, in your/ history in the shape of streams, of animals,/ or are you, too, ash of Auschwitz,/ medal of silence? [...] no to death, dead in Auschwitz,/ to never repeat, from that pit/ of ashes, death.” #SalvatoreQuasimodo #LestWeForget the horrors Man is capable of. Ad AuschwitzSalvatore QuasimodoLaggiù, ad Auschwitz, lontano…Read more Salvatore Quasimodo: Ad Auschwitz/ In Auschwitz

Angiolo Silvio Novaro: Il fabbro armonioso/ The harmonious blacksmith

"I did not get my fill of you. I hid my thirst and my hunger as if they were a weakness and a sin. To enrichen you, I forced myself and you into misery." Angiolo Silvio Novaro I was so taken by this work, so touched by the subject matter and the style that I…Read more Angiolo Silvio Novaro: Il fabbro armonioso/ The harmonious blacksmith

Giuseppe Ungaretti: Mattina / Morning

Neither lit nor struck, alight or enlightened, illuminated or illumined, but perhaps any of these things because, as Giuseppe Ungaretti himself stated: “Poetry is poetry when it carries within it a secret.” Mattina     M’illumino   d’immenso.     Giuseppe Ungaretti Santa Maria La Longa il 26 gennaio 1917    Morning     I’m…Read more Giuseppe Ungaretti: Mattina / Morning

Irma Marchiani: April 25, Liberation Day (Italy)

Irma Marchiani: Women and the resistance from Lettere di condannati a morte della Resistenza italiana 8 settembre 1943-25 aprile 1945 Irma Marchiani (Anty)   Prigione di Pavullo, 26.11.1944   Mia adorata Pally,   sono gli ultimi istanti della mia vita. Pally adorata ti dico a te saluta e bacia tutti quelli che mi ricorderanno .…Read more Irma Marchiani: April 25, Liberation Day (Italy)