Grazie ai volontari del Progetto Griffo è online (disponibile per il download gratuito) l’ePub: Storia degli Italiani, Tomo X di Cesare Cantù. Il X Tomo della Storia degli Italiani di Cantù, che comprende i capitoli dal CXL al CXLVIII ed il periodo storico dalla metà del XV alla metà del XVI secolo, è nella prima • Read More »
La Sinfonia n. 3 in mi bemolle maggiore Op. 55 fu composta da Ludwig van Beethoven fra il 1802 e il 1804. Fu eseguita privatamente per la prima volta il 9 giugno 1804 e pubblicamente il 7 aprile 1805 sotto la direzione del compositore. Questa composizione riveste, secondo il parere unanime di critici e musicologi, un ruolo decisivo non solo nella storia della sinfonia stessa, stravolgendone • Read More »
Le Danze ungheresi per pianoforte a quattro mani sono state scritte da Johannes Brahms agli inizi della sua carriera musicale (1852). Nella partitura originale le danze venivano qualificate come ungheresi perché in quel tempo il folclore magiaro era del tutto sconosciuto e confuso con la musica zigana che quel popolo nomade aveva diffuso. Le danze ungheresi sono infatti impregnate del ritmo e delle melodie zigane affrancate dal virtuosismo • Read More »
Come in altre opere di D’Arzo, non succede praticamente nulla in questo romanzo, ambientato forse in una Mitteleuropa ottocentesca, ma è un nulla di grande densità e spessore, ricco di meraviglia e di incanto: è un oscillare continuo tra l’essenzialità delle cose e delle persone e il loro aspetto fantastico. Clicca sotto per leggere la • Read More »
Ecco un’altra traduzione delle due opere, qui riunite in un unico volume, di Xavier De Maistre nelle quali l’autore condivide con lettrici e lettori le sue riflessioni anche ironiche sugli effetti dell’isolamento e della solitudine. Clicca sotto per leggere la sinossi a cura di Claudia Pantanetti, Libera Biblioteca PG Terzi APS. Dall’incipit del libro: Oh, • Read More »
The actor stars in a true story of a poison pen letter that pitted two neighbours against each other. Post Views: 2
Yanis Varoufakis: *Why is Labour still using the self-defeating, discredited “maxed out credit card” analogy?* Post Views: 9
Why Pennsylvania coal miners moved to the right wing after the 1950s. Post Views: 3
States are banning the “captive audience meetings” in which businesses order workers to listen to anti-union propaganda. Post Views: 3
*Global awareness of women’s health being “hijacked by vested interests”* to sell quackery. Rampant unrestrained capitalism does that in every area. Society needs a framework that doesn’t elevate profit above all else. Post Views: 6
Small farms in the US are having trouble, while large farms are bringing high profits. Congress is proposing to increase subsidies that are independent of size. That won’t address the problem. Post Views: 3
US citizens: call on Congress to reject the proposal to label fentanyl dishonestly as a “chemical weapon” and charge people with “terrorism” for possession of it. Laws must not lie. The illegal fentanyl trade has harmful effects — the usual effects of black-market sale of drugs. Some of the people who buy fentanyl on the • Read More »
The Israeli army showed reporters extensive tunnels under the UNRWA’s main office in Gaza. We cannot trust either HAMAS or Israel to tell the truth about events in Gaza, or about tunnels that exist there. But I think it must be true that these tunnels were built by HAMAS. I don’t think Israel could have • Read More »
*[The bullshitter] says mixing [up] Haley with Pelosi and Biden with Obama was tactic, not gaffe.* One advantage of training your supporters not to accept truth from you is that you can get away with bullshit about your bullshit. Post Views: 4
*Ill-judged tree planting in Africa threatens ecosystems, scientists warn.* Projects to plant lots of trees have gone awry before. Sometimes the problem is simply that most of the trees die, having been planted in places where those species will not grow. In this case, it seems worse problems threaten. Post Views: 8
*Tennessee advances bill to [imprison] people [for] helping minors obtain abortion.* This demonstrates the fanaticism of the religious extremists that are determined to prevent abortion, whatever the cost (to those who are pregnant). The bill says specifically anyone who “recruits, harbors, or transports a pregnant unemancipated minor” commits a crime. I wonder what it means, • Read More »
US citizens: call on the Senate to complete the investigation into the wrecker’s foreign ill-gotten gains. Post Views: 1
Almost half the people privately enslaved in Britain nowadays were not trafficked from some other country. Rather, they are boys who were pressured by local criminals into supporting their crimes. Post Views: 6
The hottest January ever recorded has caused fire disaster in southern South America. Governments need to change many policies so as to prevent and discourage fires. Post Views: 3
*Plastic producers have known for 30 years that recycling is not an economically or technically feasible plastic waste management solution. That has not stopped them from promoting it, according to a new report.* This could be the basis for big lawsuits against them. Post Views: 3
Germany is harshly silencing those who criticize Israel. After Hitler’s mass murder of Jews became public knowledge, Jews were compelled to confront the question: is it “never again” against us, or “never again” against anyone whatsoever? Humanitarian morality must choose the latter interpretation, and that is what I support. Germany has, according to the article, • Read More »
Explanations for why Netanyahu clings so tightly to defeating HAMAS militarily even though the war is not going well, and why the US finds it so hard to stop this. The fact that HAMAS is not dead even in occupied northern Gaza may help convince pertinent people that the idea of militarily eliminating HAMAS is • Read More »
*Denouncing critics of Israel as ‘un-Jews’ or antisemites is a perversion of history.* There is an old current in Jewish thought which stands up for anyone who is mistreated — including Palestinians mistreated by Jews. And another old current of deplatforming them. Post Views: 2
US citizens: Support the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act. Post Views: 5
US citizens: call on the United States to insist on a full investigation into accusations of military election rigging in Pakistan, before recognizing a new government there. Post Views: 5
The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and sale of pure honey. This second issue covers such topics such as The Dzierzon Theory, Origin and Nature of Honey Dew, Chemical Analysis of the Royal Jelly, The Italian Bee, and many others. • Read More »
Bushido: The Soul of Japan is a study of the way of the samurai. A best-seller in its day, it was read by many influential foreigners, among them US Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, as well as Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts. The author found in Bushido, the Way of • Read More »
by The PLOS Medicine Staff Post Views: 6
The New Zealand-born broadcaster says in a statement that he has been “completely cleared”. Post Views: 4
Four of the world’s best-selling acts last year were K-Pop bands, including Seventeen and Stray Kids. Post Views: 3
The pair were named in the New Year Honours list for their brain injury recovery charity work. Post Views: 8
Dietrich Buxtehude (Bad Oldesloe o Helsingborg, 1637 – Lubecca, 9 maggio 1707) è stato un compositore e organista tedesco-danese. Uomo colto, poliglotta, ottimo strumentista e discreto poeta, Buxtehude sviluppò uno stile che abbracciò le varie forme compositive dell’epoca, come la fantasia, il corale e la fuga, e che influenzò molti compositori, fra i quali il • Read More »
Dickson is a writer after our own heart. For preachers he is a great ally. There is nothing brilliant or profound; but everything is clear and well arranged, and the unction runs down like the oil from Aaron’s head. In this volume the observations are brief. – Summary by Charles Spurgeon Post Views: 6
A woman who shot to fame giving parenting advice has been jailed for at least four years for child abuse. Post Views: 7
The pair will jointly occupy a coaching slot when the singing contest returns for a new series. Post Views: 3
Dr Matthew Knowles says his daughter was inspired by her grandfather’s favourite country music as a child. Post Views: 6
Actor and comedian Ewen MacIntosh, best known for his role in The Office, has died aged 50. Post Views: 3
In questa raccolta di saggi pubblicata nel 1928 Gentile pone l’attenzione su vari temi: la necessità di chiarire cosa sia cultura; le differenze tra scienza, coscienza, erudizione e cultura; la relazione tra cultura e lavoro; il ruolo della scuola… Clicca sotto per leggere la sinossi a cura di Piero Giuseppe Perduca. Dall’incipit della Premessa: Se • Read More »
The rapper and two other men are accused of trafficking then raping an unidentified teenager in 2003. Post Views: 6
Cebu – La crisi delle vocazioni è diventata un’emergenza anche per le Chiese dell’Asia che fin nel recente passato avevano visto tanti giovani attirati dalla vita sacerdotale e religiosa. Nelle Filippine, le comunità ecclesiali stano affrontando il problema con determinazione e creatività. L’arcidiocesi di Cebu, nell’ambito del Mese dedicato alle vocazioni, ha dato vita a • Read More »