• PAINTERS

CIMA DA CONEGLIANO (1459/1517), ITALIAN RENAISSANCE PAINTER: Shades of colors with the serious calm of its spirit

• POETRY

IT IS NOW EVENING: Poetry, by Salvatore Quasimodo

This poetry belongs to Water and Land (poetry collection published in 1930), with a structure very short and very deep…

• PAINTERS

SANDRO BOTTICELLI (1445/1510), ITALIAN RENAISSANCE PAINTER: The linear grace of Early Renaissance painting

• POETRY

ON A DRY WASH: The last haiku, by Matsuo Bashō

Basho in the summer of 1694 he went to Osaka. He died there, after writing his latest haiku: Traveling, sick…

• WRITERS

TIMELESS BOOKS: ITALIAN JOURNEY BY GOETHE

.....................................................Castrogiovanni, Sunday, April 29, 1787. The old Enna he reserved the harshest of welcome: a room with brick, with taxes…

• PAINTERS

JOHANNES VERMEER (1632/1675), XVIIth-CENTURY DUTCH PAINTER: Few paintings, melted in lapis lazuli and Indian yellow

• PAINTERS

HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864/1901), XIXth-CENTURY FRENCH PAINTER: Substance and colorful details, in the lifestyles bohemian Paris

• MUSIC

THE CARE – By Franco Battiato

THE CARE I'll protect you from the fears of hypochondria from disturbances that will meet today for your street. Injustices…

• POETRY

I WISH I COULD A QUIET CORNER: Poetry by Rabindranath Tagore

I WISH I COULD A QUIET CORNER I wish I could take a quiet corner in the heart of my…

• PAINTERS

HIERONYMUS BOSCH (1453/1516), DUTCH RENAISSANCE PAINTER: The man by fantastic imagery, with detailed landscapes also about moral and religious concepts