He was born in Roncole of Busseto, near Parma, on a day in October of 1813, and would become the author of many dramas, which are part of the repertoire of theaters worldwide. Giuseppe Verdi is a composer always looking for new players, which inspire their works, also attending Paris (the artistic capital of Europe in those years). His operas …
Read More »LOVES, GULLS AND STREAMS – Attilio Bertolucci Poems
He began to write poetry since he was very young, when he was no more than seven years. In ’28 Attilio Bertolucci collaborated in the Gazzetta di Parma. He is born on November day, 1911 near Parma. In ’31 he enrolled at the Faculty of Law in Parma. In ’33 was a lifelong companion, Ninetta Giovanardi, and he published the …
Read More »BEAUTIFUL TO SEE, SWEET TO TASTE – Travel in Parma / Italy, discovering the magic of two thousand years of history, enclosed in a casket
Among the most beautiful university cities of Italy, Parma is the most charming. http://www.turismo.comune.parma.it/en?set_language=en Sweet and friendly, beside a river, in the heart of the countryside among churches and domes, churches and fortified walls, palaces, villas, theaters and parks. In this city you eat well, very, very good! That we remember, we starting our city tour. The first stage is …
Read More »EXPLORING THE WEST, NIGHT AND DAY, WITH BRUSH AND COLOR – The extraordinary creative metamorphosis of Frederic Remington
FREDERIC REMINGTON 1/3 – He was an American painter and writer, who specialized in depictions of the Old American West (specifically concentrating on the last quarter of the 19th century American West and images of cowboys, American Indians, and the U.S. Cavalry). He was born in Canton, New York, and Remington’s father was a colonel in the Civil War (whose …
Read More »FREDERIC REMINGTON (1861/1909), AMERICAN PAINTER – The Color of the nights and the prairies
ROUTE 66 / EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW AND SEE IN OKLAHOMA
Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time in your life. Meeting Benches. The way to make the world a better place is easy. Choose a bench, where you can publish what you have painted or written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or …
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Ermineskin Grand Entry Pow Wow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w17qY4x0YI4 Carlos Nakai: Earth Spirit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19nm5_nAwQg Best Country Music Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIMzLgA2Z50 Oklahoma Country Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFd4BwdI6mA
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THE GRAPES OF WRATH – Novel by John Steinbeck
He was born in Salinas, California, on February day, 1902. Attended Stanford University without graduating (and though he lived briefly in New York), John Steinbeck remained a lifelong Californian. He began writing novels in 1929, and frequently used his fiction to delve into the lives of society’s most downtrodden citizens. A trio of novels in the late 1930s focused on …
Read More »LANCE HENSON, CHEYENNE POET – POEMS
He is Cheyenne, Oglala and French. He served in the U. S. Marine Corps after high school, during the Vietnam War, and is a graduate of Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts in Chickasha. He was born in Washington, D. C. in 1944. He was raised on a farm near Calumet, Oklahoma by his great aunt and uncle, Bertha and Bob …
Read More »LIN DELIJA (1926/1994), PAINTER OF ALBANIA – Living for painting, reminding the country of eagles
ALBANIA INNER LANDSCAPES
BROKEN APRIL – Romance by Ismail Kadare
He is a writer, essayist, poet and writer born in a southern city of Albania, who graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology at the University of Tirana. At first he devoted himself to poetry, but in 1963 he wrote his first novel. In 1990 to express their disapproval of the immobility of the Albanian Communist leadership, he requested …
Read More »FLIGHTS CANCELLED, KINGDOMS OF STONE AND BOATS FULL OF TEARS – Frederik Rreshpja Poems
PRELUDE – Oh air of evening wrap me, now that I die again. When it will close my eyes, there will be no sea for boats of tears. I go and leave you closed all the rain. But I will return again to every season that I want. I was the sadness of the world. Oh air of evening wrap …
Read More »WINDOWS AND A THOUSAND THOUSAND STARS, IN BERAT – White houses and beautiful panoramic views, in Albania
Since 2008, the city was declared a World Heritage Site. That little gem of a thousand windows, the beautiful sight, all those white Ottoman houses that climb on the banks of a river, up to an ancient castle, all this awaits you in Albania, Berat. Beautiful that fortress (easily reachable by car), where your eyes ranging over a beautiful. The …
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