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Face and Figura by Joe Alvaro
Another interesting contribution by Joseph James Alvaro: “While reading The Italians (Hooper 2016), I came across some interesting comparisons between the Italian concept of bella figura, and the...
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Io se fossi Dio, If I were God, by Giorgio Gaber, 1982
1982, when there was still in Italy a thinker and intellectual, only one btw, Giorgio Gaber, who was free and not embedded, infiltrated, corrupted, linked, mafioso or a mason. In praise of Giorgio...
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Unveiling the Hidden Meaning behind Takashi Wakamiya’s Lacquerwareby Paola...
Among the many activities organized by the Italian Women’s Association, there are cultural events and gatherings. In particular, there is an on-going cooperation between IWA and the management of the...
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I used to think in essentialised terms – East, West. I internalised the cultural self-representation imposed by friendly well-meaning white Australians living 45 minutes from Pauline Hanson’s...
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La donna che sparò a Mussolini
Violet Gibson poche ore dopo l’arresto. 90 anni fa, mercoledì 7 Aprile 1926. Alle 8 in punto Quinto Navarra entrava nell’appartamento di Palazzo Tittoni, in via Rasella, dove alloggiava Benito...
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Il Punto – Radio Barbagia – FM 91.9 NUORO, 4 Maggio 2016 Don Francesco Mariani Ciriaco Offeddu Joseph James Alvaro Sebastian Cocco Angelo Paratico
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Our Book on Leonardo Da Vinci published in Korean and Italian
The Mona Lisa of Valdinievole The rights for an edition in Korean of Leonardo Da Vinci. A Chinese Scholar Lost in Renaissance Italy had been sold a couple of weeks ago by Lascar Publishing Ltd to LP...
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Melissa Rupp’s review of my book ‘The Dew of Heaven’
The first review, by Melissa Rupp, an American writer and editor living in Ohio. Angelo Paratico, freelance writer, novelist and historian, is an expat Italian who has been living in Hong Kong for the...
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Matteo Renzi è la reincarnazione di Gian Galeazzo Ciano?
Gian Galeazzo Ciano Il mese venturo un editore di Tempe, Florida, pubblicherà il mio romanzo The Dew of Heaven avente una forte base storica ma nel quale il misticismo tibetano vi gioca un ruolo...
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Coming Back
Entering Italy, coming back from abroad, is always a strange thing. At first, there is this strong feeling that everything is a comedy, some sort of play put on just for you, nothing serious. The...
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Introducing Paolo Dalponte: artist, friend and travel companion
I first met Paolo in the late 80s at the airport of Milan Linate. I was on my way to Amsterdam and then Bali with a bunch of people coming from different walks of life, acquaintances and friends of...
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I Boat People di Hong Kong e quelli che sbarcano in Italia.
Saigon cadde il 30 aprile 1975. La repressione e la crisi economica che seguirono spinsero un milione di vietnamiti a fuggire. Si calcola che sino al 1985 circa centomila persone furono passate per le...
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The Ruins found in Beijing are not Marco Polo’s Xanadu
(Copyright: SCMP. Wang Guangyao speaking to the Press) An article on the SCMP (Clues lead to the ‘Greatest Palace That Ever Was’ 10/06.2016) ) claims that the ruins of the fabled moveable palace of...
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First Dante Alighieri Award assigned to Dr. Herbert Adamczyk
The First Dante Alighieri Award for contribution to Italian Culture in Hong Kong & Macau was awarded on 11 June 2016 to Mr. Herbert Adamczyk. The award ceremony was staged prior to the first...
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Come coinvolgere le scuole
Qualcuno, non ricordo chi, scusate, chiedeva su Facebook come poter coinvolgere le scuole nel processo di trasformazione di Nuoro. Cambiamento necessario se si vuole dar sostanza a una strategia...
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My interpretation of the theme of Distance on “Cha, an Asian Literary Journal”
Distance is not only the physical length of space between two points. It’s also a gap, a rift. It often creates a sense of craving for a place or for another human being – for a distant ‘entity’ that...
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Beauty
Beauty Questa immagine ha vinto il secondo premio al concorso di grafica umoristica di Surgut (Siberia) nel 2013. Il tema del concorso era “La bellezza”. L’immagine rappresenta una bocca femminile...
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Virginia Raggi ha sangue blu?
Stemma dei Raggi Pubblicato sul Blog ‘La Nostra Storia’ di Dino Messina, Corriere della Sera. Il sindaco di Roma, Virginia Raggi, non è certamente la ragazza della porta accanto, ma è piuttosto la...
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Che cosa è la giovinezza?
Luca Urgu, giornalista dell’Unione Sarda, porta un soffio di quel Maestrale che dalla costa occidentale della Sardegna risale l’altipiano di Sindia e si precipita verso la Barbagia, mischiandosi...
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Strane nubi e luci sopra al CERN di Ginevra.
Nel 2008 la Mursia di Milano pubblicò un mio romanzo fantascientifico che provocò un certo fermento sui media e, pur essendo fatto da loro uscire con fortissimo ritardo, arrivò alla seconda edizione....
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