November 26, 2024 2:41 pm

Meeting Bench

AMICO ASPERTINI (1474/1552): The eclectic Italian painter who painted the Renaissance with both hands

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SLEEPING WITH ONE EYE OPEN: Mark Strand, Keeping things whole

KEEPING THINGS WHOLE “In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body’s been. We all have reasons for moving. The move to keep things whole. “ (Mark …

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ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD: Xenophon and 10,000 adventurers of weapons, in a timeless book, Anabasis

A man born in Athens, an extraordinary reporter, tells the march towards the interior of an unknown world. In the pages of his book, not only facts relating to ancient Greece, but the concerns – along with the strengths and weaknesses – of men. Timeless, the nuances of varied humanity tell us about the nightmare in impossible environments, the heartbreaking …

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UNITED COLOURS OF SMILE – Hanging on a Rope, float in the divine, in the madness and joy

FLOAT – A. Gérecz: In your smile floated the moon, and I wanted to climb. Your smile was only human, and I pick it up I curled in. THREE REALITY – Ramayana: There are three things real, and they are God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two beyond our understanding, we must do what we can with the …

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YASUTA KEMARI, POEMS: In the fields of June, at the port of dreams

“In nostalgic fields I was standing these things made who were from distances received large.”       “June wheel wet the pickup truck stopped at lights it is attached to the future.”       “At the port of heaven the harbor water the port of the wind the port of dreams run off the seeds.” (Yasuta Kemari)

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SPINELLO ARETINO (1350/1410): Shades of Giotto, in Florence, Pisa and Arezzo, between pages and bridesmaids gently harvested

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38° 33’49″N 14° 50’16″E – AEOLIAN ISLANDS, SALINA: Capers, swordfish and bougainvillea, listening to the volcano

At any time of the year – and for any reason you have – come to me, sniffing the fragrant basil, mint, breathing and drinking wine Malvasia. In qualsisi moment you arrive, you’ll find the Salina Island full of people, because his fishy sea is always smiling. Many people have bought a house on the island, because they needed time …

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Poems, by Ferreira Gullar

MADRUGADA “Do fundo do meu fourth, do not least of My Body clandestine ouço (não vejo) ouço no bone will grow and no músculo da noite a noite, a noite ocidental obscenamente acesa sobre meu país dividido em classes. “ SUNRISE “From the bottom of my room, from the bottom of my body clandestine I hear (not see) feel grow …

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GIUSEPPE ARCIMBOLDO: Only one step away from the Renaissance, gives us its nuances of the grotesque and burlesque

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FERNANDO BOTERO: The Colombian contemporary painter, and his love for the Renaissance, with shades of Giotto and Mantegna

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