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Mao Zedong moriva 40 anni fa
Il 9 settembre 1976, 40 anni fa, moriva il presidente cinese Mao Zedong. Aveva 82 anni ed era da tempo malato. Pur credendosi immortale, come gli antichi imperatori cinesi, pure lui dovette rendere...
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La confusione del rinnegato
Un altro bellissimo scritto da Berlino di Lino De Palmas: “Tagliavano l’impasto a fette, le arrotolavano ad una ad una, mozzandone il culetto con il pugno serrato. E cosi via. I tempi lunghi della...
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Signing of The Dew of Heaven at Bookazine on October 2nd, 2016.
BELLISSIMA ITALIA is promoting the signing of The Dew of Heaven at Bookazine, Prince Building. A discussion on my latest book will be aired on the 15 of September on Morning Brew at RTHK 11 a.m....
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THE DEW OF HEAVEN by Angelo Paratico Soon Released
Cactus Moon of Tempe, Arizona, will soon release in Hong Kong ‘The Dew of Heaven’ in which I am recounting all the passages of a dramatic finding, happened in Hong Kong in 2011, of the sacred relict...
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‘Quixotica, Poems East of La Mancha’: a poetry collection that interprets the...
The year 2016 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, the author of ‘Don Quixote’, the classic Spanish novel, if not the first modern novel. In spring 2016, the...
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Le Isole nell’Uomo
La storia di un’isola è la storia di tutte le isole. Le storie di tutte le isole sono le storie di tutti gli uomini appartenenti all’ordine naturale della specie, costituiti in maniera indelebile...
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The great typhoon of 18 September 1906
Super typhoon Meranti is upon us but seems that it will make landfall further up in China. Hong Kong was not so fortunate 110 years ago. Here is a page from the diary of Gino Montecorvo, who witnessed...
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La Teologia del Cinghiale di Gavino Némus
Caro Gavino Némus, ti comunico, con profonda e meditata amarezza, che il tuo meraviglioso libro La Teologia del Cinghiale non avrà il successo che merita. Oh, ne hanno parlato per alcuni giorni, certo,...
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Presentation of ‘The Dew of Heaven’ at RTHK3 on 15 September 2016.
The program is ‘Morning Brew’ 11 a.m. and the presenter is, as usual, the super-nice Phil Whelan, with his warm, homily, voice....
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The statue of Christ the Redeemer, Mount Ortobene, Nuoro, Sardinia
Pope Leo XIII, wanting to commemorate the 1900 Holy Jubilee Year with a legacy that would last long into the future, ordered the mounting of nineteen statues or crosses dedicated to Christ the...
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La psicologia dello schiavo (e il caso Ciampi)
Parlavamo con Antonello, andando verso Dorgali, e mi diceva di aver notato, nei paesi dell’Europa settentrionale dove ha vissuto, un atteggiamento di attenzione paritetica del cittadino verso lo stato,...
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Kalispera
Mosto all’aria. Io mi osservo. Comincia il tempo delle vendemmie. Delle volte assumo atteggiamenti derivanti dall’insoddisfazione. All’uomo terreno non è data scelta che avere grandi progetti da...
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La Terza Via – The Third Way
LA TERZA VIA Tra la scelta di andare a sinistra e quella di andare a destra, rimane sempre una terza possibilità: quella di andare diritti. Questo vale per il camminare vero e proprio ma anche per...
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Being a Writer and a Businessman in Hong Kong
During my talk yesterday at the PolyU I have tried to explain why, in my opinion, it is impossible to be a successful businessman as well as a good writer in Hong Kong. One has to choose between the...
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Vito Modugno in The Dew of Heaven. A criminal cold case.
One of the main characters in my book The Dew of Heaven is Lieutenant Vito Modugno, an Italian officer born in Bitonto (Ba) in 1870, who then graduated from the Turin Military Academy and was then...
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The Mad Baron in my book ‘The Dew of Heaven’
One of the minor characters in my book “The Dew of Heaven” is the sadistic baron Roman Nikolai Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg (Graz, Austria, December 29, 1885 – Novonikolaevsk, September 15, 1921)...
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The Vegetarian, by Han Kang: The Anguished Wait for Nature’s Embrace
I approached ‘The Vegetarian’ by Han Kang for two main reasons. The first because the author, winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, is South Korean and I had interest in reading a...
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Dialectal Speeches
D.H Lawrence consumò la sua abbardente e si mise in strada prestissimo. La carreggiata di terra secca scrocchiava sotto la suola delle scarpe inglesi. La luce del mattino illuminava i piccoli bottoni...
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A review of The Dew of Heaven with culinary implications
This review has been published on the blog of Melissa Rupp, a professional American writer and former China resident. “The Dew of Heaven” with Spicy Chicken Stir-fry, Jasmine Rice and Chocolate Eggs
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Let’s give a dog to each prison inmate!
A dog will offer to prison inmates, even hardened criminals, unconditional love. They will teach other respect and discipline and our fellow human beings, who went out of luck, will not forsake their...
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