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Cactus Moon Publications of Tempe, Arizona, has bought my latest book.
Here is their press release: Cactus Moon Publications is proud to announce the acquisition of Dew of Heaven by Angelo Paratico. Angelo is an Italian writer, novelist and historian. Born in Turbigo,...
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The Time of the Mobooks is dawning.
It will happen within the next 10 years. What? The appearance of the Mobooks, a cross between movies and books. When an author creates a file with his new novel, or with his new history book, it will...
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Invited to Present my book on Leonardo at the Italy & China Conference in...
Italy and China, Europe and East Asia: Centuries of Dialogue / Italia e Cina, Europa e Asia orientale: Secoli di dialogo / 意大利与中国，欧洲与东亚：跨世纪对话 Organised by the Department of Italian Studies University...
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Beyond Thirty-Nine and Sardinia
In 2014, after the incredible success of the 30 May at the Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences – about 100 attentive and passionate people joined the event “Grazia Deledda & Sardinia” – I wrote:...
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Xenophon’s Hellenika. Not such a Landmark but a flawed interpretation..
The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika Edited by Robert B. Strassler and Translated by John Marincola. 7 3/8 x 9 1/4, Hardcover, Pantheon and Anchor Book, 2009. Xenophon’s Hellenika, the primary source...
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John G. Neihardt’s ‘The Song of Hugh Glass’ and ‘The Revenant’
In 1915, John G. Neihardt – author of many volumes of poetry but also of fiction and philosophy, and soon to be Nebraska’s poet laureate – wrote an epic narrative poem titled ‘The Song of Hugh Glass’....
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Sardegna alla deriva e senza bussola, by Massimo Crivelli
Un interessante e profondo contributo da parte di Massimo Crivelli, ex Vice Direttore dell’Unione Sarda e attuale columnist: “In questi giorni di febbraio in cui deboli piogge ravvivano la speranza di...
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We can work it out
So, on Saturday 20 February, in Nuoro, we presented the new cultural association Beyond Thirty-Nine Sezione Nuoro and my book Aunt Suelita and the Devil’s Project. For me, it was a strange event...
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The Day of the Jackal, 45 Years Ago.
The idea to write The Day of the Jackal came to Frederick Forsyth while covering for Reuter an assassination attempt made on French President Charles de Gaulle on 22 August 1962 by a senior French...
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‘Canne al Vento’ or ‘Reeds in the Wind’? In italiano il commento finale
I got down to the very serious business of reading Reeds in the Wind, the translation into English of the masterpiece Canne al Vento, by Grazia Deledda, with a sort of anxiety. Her style is not simple....
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Collectors
Jordan adored meeting strangers and liked the entire enormity of the idea. She loved how she had to roll her tongue twice to pronounce the word “stranger” and the satisfying contrast between the ‘s’...
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Fred Trump Arrested in 1927 but not as a Fascist.
Mulberry Street, New York, around 1915. All newspapers and TV stations in the world, also the South China Morning Post (Donald busted at race riot, report says. March 1, 2016) quoted an article...
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Fascism and Morning Coffee by Giuseppe Alvaro
An interesting contribution by Joseph James Alvaro (*): “These days, the words fascist and fascism have gained a new life in the American media, mostly applied to a particular presidential candidate....
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Lead Poisoning in Ancient Rome and Flint, Michigan
The Democratic Party circus made a stop in Flint, Michigan, yesterday. The two contenders first promised lead-free waters to all the citizens, then they started wrestling on the usual political...
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In the early days of March
In the early days of March –my favourite month, since I’m a habitual walker, covering miles andmiles of countryside– I’ll head for Green Pastures. (For the record, I’m wont to call them “my FarQuest”,...
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The Dew of Heaven – released in Summer.
A reproduction of the Kara Sulde The Dew of Heaven by Cactus Moon Publishers, Tempe, Arizona. A work of Factual fiction by Angelo Paratico. It will be released in a few months. It is based on true...
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About Sardinia and Grazia Deledda
Here is a new article by Lucia Becchere, L’Ortobene, Marzo 2016: Clicca per leggere tutto Ciriaco Offeddu ingegnere, scrittore, fondatore e presidente di gruppi di società di servizi industriali e...
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Thirty-Four Forms of Madness. A book on Sardinia and much more.
Ciriaco Offeddu’s Thirty-Four Forms of Madness is a book full of verve and love for Sardinia. But love may take strange forms, as we, all grown up, have learnt to know with the passing of time. Love...
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Philip Eisenbeiss’ biography of Barbaja released in Italy
We wrote about the first release of this book, in English, three years ago: http://beyondthirtynine.com/book-on-domenico-barbaja-presented-in-hong-kong-sicis-showroom-15-november-2013-at-7-pm/...
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Franco Buffoni – Good Mo(u)rning, Italy
Hello, dear friends of «Beyond Thirty-Nine». Pietro Pàncamo is glad to tell you that today «Good Mo(u)rning, Italy» has a prestigious guest: I mean the highly-esteemed poet, translator from English and...
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