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literature, Poetry

The poetical universe of Federico García Lorca ✒️🇪🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Federico García Lorca’s late poetry feels instinctive, even wild — but beneath its sensory surface lies a precise symbolic grammar. In the Diván del Tamarit and the Sonetos del amor oscuro, his two posthumous masterworks, the moon signals death as much as beauty; blood fuses erotic desire with mortal wound; running water means life while standing water means death; and the horse gallops toward the abyss of the duende. These are not decorative images — they are a system, one Lorca spent his entire career perfecting and brought to its fullest expression in the collections he would never see published. This post explores the symbolic world of Lorca’s final poetry, with close readings of key poems and reference to the critical essays in our new bilingual English edition. Learn to read the signs — and Lorca will never read the same way again. Continue reading The poetical universe of Federico García Lorca ✒️🇪🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Books, literature, Quotes

Carl Gustav Jung

Every July 26th marks the birthday of Carl Gustav Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist who gave us the shadow, the archetype, and the collective unconscious. But who was the man behind these now-everyday words? This post traces Jung’s journey from his lonely Swiss childhood to his dramatic break with Freud, the birth of analytical psychology, and his groundbreaking dialogue with Eastern philosophy through Taoism and the I Ching. Discover how his ideas quietly shaped fields as different as literature, art, anthropology, and even addiction recovery — and why concepts like individuation and shadow work feel more relevant today than ever. Complete with verified quotes (and a few famous fakes debunked), this is a birthday tribute to the thinker who taught us that looking inward is how we truly wake up. Continue reading Carl Gustav Jung

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Books, Letteratura, literature, short stories, translation

Lion or Foe, by Grazia Deledda 🇮🇹✒️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

English translation curated by Enzo Martinelli of Grazia Deledda’s short story, “Lion or Foe”, from her short story collection “Summer Sunshine”, along with original Italian text.

Traduzione inglese curata da Enzo Martinelli del racconto di Grazia Deledda, “Leone o faina”, dalla sua raccolta di racconti “Sole d’estate”, con testo originale a fronte. Continue reading Lion or Foe, by Grazia Deledda 🇮🇹✒️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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art, Books, History

Alexander the Great’s Formative Years 🗿🏛📚

Before the conquests, the making of a king: discover how Alexander the Great’s early years in Pella and Mieza — shaped by his rivalry-laced bond with Philip II, his mother Olympias’s claims of divine birth, Aristotle’s tutelage, and his devotion to Bucephalus and Hephaestion — forged history’s most formidable conqueror. Continue reading Alexander the Great’s Formative Years 🗿🏛📚

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art, Painting

Max Liebermann 🎨🖌🖼

Born in Berlin on July 20, 1847, Max Liebermann is widely regarded as the foremost champion of Impressionism in Germany and one of the most significant European painters of his era. He began his career as an enfant terrible of realism before evolving into the most celebrated representative of German Impressionism.  On the 178th anniversary of his birth, we celebrate an artist of extraordinary range: from naturalistic studies of the labour of the poor, to sun-drenched Dutch landscapes, to over two hundred commissioned portraits  — including one of Albert Einstein. As founder and first president of the Berlin Secession, he was instrumental in the development of modernism in Germany, both artistically and institutionally.  A towering figure whose legacy deserves to be far better known. Continue reading Max Liebermann 🎨🖌🖼

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Books, poesia, Poetry, translation

As consequent, by Walt Whitman 🌿🖋📖

“As Consequent, etc.” is a little-known praise by Walt Whitman to the river as a metaphor for life and poetry itself. In this article you will find the original text in English flanked by Italian and Spanish translations, with a brief comment on the symbolic meaning of water in Whitman’s work and the challenges of making his verse free in other languages. Continue reading As consequent, by Walt Whitman 🌿🖋📖

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literature, short stories

The Young King, by Oscar Wilde 🌿🖋📖

“The Young King” by Oscar Wilde is one of the most luminous tales from A House of Pomegranates (1891), blending aesthetic beauty with deep moral reflection. In this introduction, you’ll find a clear, reader‑friendly overview of the story’s themes, symbolism, and narrative arc — followed by the original English text and Enzo Martinelli’s translation in Italian of the short story.

Wilde’s tale follows a sixteen‑year‑old boy raised in poverty who suddenly discovers he is heir to the throne. On the eve of his coronation, he confronts three haunting visions that reveal the suffering behind the luxurious robe, crown, and sceptre prepared for him. These dreams transform his understanding of beauty, power, and compassion, leading to one of Wilde’s most striking moral reversals. Continue reading The Young King, by Oscar Wilde 🌿🖋📖

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art, Painting

Amedeo Modigliani 🖌🖼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Born on 12 July 1884, Amedeo Modigliani remains one of modern art’s most haunting voices — his elongated portraits and nudes fusing Tuscan classicism, African sculpture, and the raw intensity of early 20th-century Paris. Dead at 35, he left behind a body of work whose melancholic elegance has only grown in stature since. On his birth anniversary, we revisit the life, style, and enduring legacy of an artist who painted the soul as much as the face. Continue reading Amedeo Modigliani 🖌🖼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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