Michelangelo Buonarroti – Sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the Italian Renaissance
FERNANDO PESSOA, EPITHALAMIUM: Open your windows, grow bolder or more rich
EPITHALAMIUM “Open the windows and thee doors all wide lest taught of night abide, or, like a ship’s trail in the sea, survive what made it there to live! She lies in bed half waiting that her wish grow bolder or more rich to make her rise, or poorer, to oust fear, and she rise as a common day were …
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UNITED COLORS OF RESPONSIBILITY – Seals personal and rainbows over the eyes, in the fields of sins
SEALS – Job (The Bible): The hands of every man he closes in a seal, so that each recognizes his works. REDEMPTION – S. Yesenin: Swan song shakes the rainbow eye. For those who fall, sacrifice redeemed all sin. DEADLY FRUITS – Aeschylus: The field of guilt, fruits death. TWICE – Talmud (Hebrew text): Who committed twice a shame, no …
Read More »FAN YUN, POETRY OF FAREWELL: As regards the time passing, observes the snow, and even the flowers
POETRY OF FAREWELL “To the east and west walls of Luoyang, long salute the passing time. Before she left the snow that seemed flowers, now are the flowers that seem to snow.” (Fan Yun)
Read More »LEONARDO DA VINCI: The genius who managed to fully embody the spirit of the Renaissance
A BOOK WITHOUT TIME, THE PRINCE: Niccolo Machiavelli, ie profit and virtue, in the hazy boundaries of power
Few books, like this, books remain timeless. Suggestion of writing, combined with the criteria of logic and passion, make it the object and subject of the issues relating to power and success. If you think – reading it – to remain indifferent, you’re wrong. Profit and virtue, together to concerns of power, are a reality that goes beyond the boundaries. …
Read More »CONTEMPORARY POETRY ARGENTINA, RODOLFO ALONSO: Suggestions, in the most intimate memory
CONFABULAR – De Salud o nada “Es la llanura el hijo perfecto los que abrimos la mañana con los dientes viviendo hasta aquà arriba el vino de mano en mano el poema de mano en mano la sangre de mano en mano sà es verdad habrÃa que decirlo a todo el mundo.” CONFABULATE – Health or nothing “It is …
Read More »ANDREA MANTEGNA: The master of the spatial layout, and majestic perspectives that smell Tuscan influences
MEXICO – BREAD, DISH AND SPOON: With Manuel, where the tortilla opens the doors of your stupor
I hope you have already visited Mexico City. If you have something to ask me, we can talk during our excursion to the Bosque de Chapultepec, a place you will never forget. I am Manuel, and I take the opportunity that Meeting Benches offers me, to show the largest park of my nation – 400 acres – along a route …
Read More »ANDREA DEL VERROCCHIO: Painter of the Italian Renaissance. Among his pupils, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli and Perugino
WELCOME TO REYKJAVIK: Together with Olaf, to discover the unimaginable
Hello, thanks to the space that gives me Meeting Benches, I can briefly accompany in my city. You will notice something unusual, a feeling also visible in this season: the city (in its way), is able to warm up. What you see is the old city (between Tjorn, Laekjargata, the port and the suburb of Seltjarnarnes). If you want, you …
Read More »CHILEAN CONTEMPORARY WRITERS: Nona Fernandez, Mapocho
A novel – Mapocho – by Nona Fernandez (Municipal Literary Prize, 2003). In it, the author discusses the Fernandez interpretation of the historian’s mission, in the foundation process of the nation. You can discover the places of the ethnic, sexual and political minorities within the national project, and the strategies of resistance employed by these groups. The novel, inverts the …
Read More »THE SOUND OF YOUR LAST GOODBYE: A poem by Luis Sepúlveda
“The last sound of your goodbye, I told him that I knew nothing and that it was the time required to learn the why of the matter. So, between the stones I knew that sum is to unite and subtract that leaves us alone and empty. That the colors reflect the naive desire of the eye. That solfeggi and the …
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