
TIMELESS BOOKS, To Kill a Mockingbird: The existential shades of a childhood, in a sleepy Southern town
Compassionate, dramatic, and moving. To Kill A Mockingbird – a novel by Harper Lee – takes readers to the roots of human behavior – to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. The existential shades of this novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town, and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, became both …
Read More »ALL LETTERS OF LOVE: Poetry, by Fernando Pessoa
ALL LETTERS OF LOVE All love letters are ridiculous. Would not be love letters if they were not ridiculous. I also wrote in my time love letters, like the others, ridiculous. Love letters, if there is love, must be ridiculous. But after all, only those who have never written love letters are ridiculous. I wish it were still the time …
Read More »MOON: Poetry, by Hai Zi
MOON Chimney smoke up and down. The moon is a white ape digging a well. The moon is a white ape smiling wanly on the river how many times blood trickles out of the sky. The white ape flows past a bell tower. The moon is a white ape smiling wanly. The moon breaks its own heart (Hai Zi) http://www.amazon.com/Autumn-Rooftops-English-Chinese-Edition/dp/0924047763 …
Read More »ROSSO FIORENTINO (1494/1540), ITALIAN PAINTER: Master in oil and fresh, belonging to the Florentine school.
EUGENE DELACROIX (1798/1863), FRENCH PAINTER: Visual effects and symbolic nuances of romance
AGNOLO BRONZINO (1503/1572), ITALIAN PAINTER: The clever and incisive master of the Medici court in Florence
THE HAPPY SUN IS SHINING: Poetry, by Fernando Pessoa
THE HAPPY SUN IS SHINING The happy sun is shining, the fields are green and joyful, but my poor heart is pining for something far away. It is pining just for you, it is pining for thy kiss. It does not matter if you’re true to this. What matter is just you. I now the sea is beaming under the …
Read More »PIETER PAUL RUBENS (1577/1640), FLEMISH PAINTER BAROQUE: The master of movement, color, and sensuality
QUENTIN MASSYS (1466/1530), FLEMISH PAINTER: Shades of Memling, van der Weyden and van Eyck
NOT THE BEST ON ROAD: The end of Europe, walking up to Corcubion, Spain
Welcome to Santiago de Compostela, my amazing and incomparable city. To visit it, just that you have a tour guide, but to learn something really special (around the city), you need the help of a friend, that is mine. I am happy to meet you, my name is Alonzo and what I want to give you is 35 km from …
Read More »MY LOVE IS DEAD: Poetry, by Thomas Chatterton
MY LOVE IS DEAD My love is dead. Go to his deathbed, all under the weeping willow. (Thomas Chatterton) http://www.amazon.it/Complete-Chatterton-Illustrated-English-Edition-ebook/dp/B00PE1J0B0
Read More »Bernard van Orley (1491/1542), FLEMISH PAINTER: Shades of color, between Gothic and Renaissance
WHEN THE MUSIC BECOMES POETRY: The sky in a room, by Gino Paoli
THE SKY IN A ROOM When you’re here with me, this room has no walls but trees, infinite trees. When you’re here with me, this purple ceiling no, no longer exists. I see the sky above us, that we stay here abandoned, as if there was nothing left, nothing left in the world. Harmonious sounds, like an organ that vibrates …
Read More »BALLAD OF GOOD DOCTRINE: Poetry, by François Villon
BALLAD OF GOOD DOCTRINE Whether the bubbles around you bring, you are or who cheat cheat at dice, coiner of money, and you’ll burn like those that are blanched, cowardly perjury, faithless. You steal, take, perform robberies: where does the fruit, do not see it? All the taverns and the whores. Make rhymes’s wit, strumming, playing harpsichord and lute, abject …
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