Grazia Deledda: La nascita delle launeddas/Ancient music legend

#Nobel Prize #Gabo Prize Finalist La nascita delle launeddas (vecchia leggenda musicale)Grazia DeleddaPoco distante dalla riva del mare un antico pastore pascolava le sue gregge.Era in un tempo lontanissimo, in una primavera quasi preistorica; ma il paesaggio era quale ancora si ammira adesso, una fresca pianura verde, chiusa da montagne quasi nere sul cielo d'un…Read more Grazia Deledda: La nascita delle launeddas/Ancient music legend

On indifference: #lestweforget #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay2021

"Whoever is devoid of the capacity to wonder, whoever remains unmoved, whoever cannot contemplate or know the deep shudder of the soul in enchantment, might just as well be dead for he has already closed his eyes upon life.” Albert Einstein L'indifferenza è l'ottavo vizio capitale.   Don Andrea GalloIndifference is the eighth capital sin.…Read more On indifference: #lestweforget #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay2021

Filippo Tapparelli: L’inverno di Giona/ Giona’s Winter

Rarely do I translate a book and cry as I am doing so. Rarely do I reread it and cry anew. Rarely do I yearn so to share it with others. But this is Giona's winter. -M.C. L’inverno di Giona Filippo Tapparelli       Non ho ricordi di quando ero piccolo, non ne ho…Read more Filippo Tapparelli: L’inverno di Giona/ Giona’s Winter

Antonio Gramsci: The mouse and the mountain (a tale about determination)

On June 1, 1931 Antonio Gramsci, from prison, wrote a letter to his family containing the tale Il topo e la montagna; and it goes something like this... The mouse and the mountainbyAntonio Gramsci In a house in the country, on a lovely island called Sardinia, in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, a child…Read more Antonio Gramsci: The mouse and the mountain (a tale about determination)