Oliver and spaghetti mussels at dawn in Villa Borghese
A funny, romantic story about rainbow guy, umbrella pines and oysters, waiting for the dawn... Dear Oliver, if I had to remember you, it would be as “Rainbow guy”. One day, at University, you asked the French professor a question, you wanted to know something about the origin of rainbows in fairy...
La Païva, Mansion at 25 Champs Élysées, Paris.
Paris, "où la Providence est plus grande qu’ailleurs". Some curiosities about the Mansion at 25 Champs Elysées Blanche, Therèsa, Esther, M.me Herz, Marquise de la Païva and eventually, Countess. She would even had become princess if she hadn't died, because Count Guido Henckel later...
A Revolutionary Man: Festival May ’68, University of Kent, Paris.
University of Kent - Paris. Festival May '68 - 200 words-Revolutions (evolving attitude to gender and sexuality) - A Revolutionary Man - Truth has to be lived, not taught. Prepare for battle or writing!” A man walks down on the street, he thinks of his youth –Milan, 1968, he’s a tiny part of the...
Edoardo Albinati’s Interview On “The Catholic School
Interview with Edoardo Albinati on The Catholic School - the massacre of CirceoParis, November, a rainy day and almost 3 pm when the video call with Edoardo starts. He’s just back from Rebibbia prison in Rome, where he still teaches. K.: Edoardo, your book, The Catholic School, has been recently...
Nero at The British Museum: trying to depict a different figure of the Roman Emperor
Nero at The British Museum - In a very crowded British Museum, which overcomes every good sense during a pandemic, Nero’s exhibition is taking place. In light of the new researches, and ranging from vain things, like the fashionable Nero’s haircut, to his major life events, the exhibition tries to...
One day with Keats from the lovely balcony of Keats-Shelley Memorial House in Rome
Trinità dei Monti. Keats and Shelley House, a small apt. in the most famous staircases of the world. When Italians and English work together and then ask money to Americans, here the result: in 1909, a jewel was born. But let’s imagine Rome at that time, less than 200.000 people - in comparison...
The Citta Irreale, or London through the eyes of the Italian Cristina Marconi, about ten years ago
Città irreale is a novel by Cristina Marconi on the unsubstantiality of big cities, such as London, and the kind of love you can find in them Città Irreale by Cristina Marconi drops into my hands when I’m trying to move from Paris to London. It was the gift of my friend Paolo, with whom I had my...
Zelda is a cute, restless, gray cat who likes to write and take pictures of what strikes her. She was born in Prague, in Zlatá Ulička, many years ago; like all cats she wasn’t born because of love – it is well known that relationships between cats happen because of rape – and this is what makes cats wise: not to believe in love,
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