Antonio Gramsci: I tre giganti/ The three giants

"there is sometimes a lack of effective and concrete “correspondence” in our correspondence" Lettera XLIVI tre giganti Antonio Gramsci Carissima Giulia, nella nostra corrispondenza talvolta manca una «corrispondenza» effettiva e concreta. Se a questo si aggiunge l’elemento tempo, che fa dimenticare quello che si è scritto precedentemente, l’impressione del puro «monologo»…Read more Antonio Gramsci: I tre giganti/ The three giants

Gramsci & Grimm’s fairy tales: The wolf and the seven little goats. From translation to translation to translation.

In 1932, Gramsci wrote to his sister: “I translated from the German, for practice, a series of folk stories that were just like the ones we liked so much when we were children.” I really believe folk stories are very much the same in every part of the world: so why do peoples think they're…Read more Gramsci & Grimm’s fairy tales: The wolf and the seven little goats. From translation to translation to translation.

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)

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…