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The mythical figure of the brigand is the subject of an essay by Giulio Tatasciore, a researcher at the University of Salerno, entitled 'Briganti d'Italia. Storia di un immaginario romantico' (Viella). It was precisely romantic taste that created the iconography of the Italian brigand ...

Now erected as a symbol of the fight against the Mafia along with Paolo Borsellino, much has been said and written about Giovanni Falcone's death. But not of the persecution he suffered during his lifetime not only by Cosa Nostra but also by fellow magistrates, a certain ...

The format "Victims and executioners. Criminology and crime", as part of the ExtraConvitto review, kicks off and tries to take stock of the concept of evil through debates, comparisons, books, reflections and narrations, organised by Mirco Turco's Criminal Meet and Stefano Donno's I Quaderni del Bardo Edizioni. It is precisely Turco and Donno who lead and coordinate the meetings with professionals in the field, who in the spaces of the Bernardini Library in Piazzetta Carducci discuss criminology topics together. At one time, these topics remained confined to the inner circle of experts, whereas nowadays they are attracting the interest of the general public, probably as a result of the prominence given by numerous television programmes to criminal cases that are difficult to solve. 

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"A one-way ticket is a guarantee of trouble and good stories. But not the return. In my pocket, along with my passport, I have a copy of the insurance policy taken out by my newspaper for the whole of 2022. It says: 'Medical expenses (including hospital expenses) unlimited.' And then...

"La Betissa. Storia composita dell'uomo dei curli e di una grassa signora' is Antonio Verri's most mature and accomplished poetic work.  It is a desperate fable with dark colours, a hallucinated journey into the unconscious and language. It is the...

In his latest collection of verse 'Le sorti dell'incanto' (Gattogrigio), Luca Crastolla digs into the word, breaks up the syntax, and is characterised by a precision of the word that is increasingly determined in the direction of a break in...

"The course was easy: to go where no one would go. Sailing toward the cloud I realized that we were enraptured by it, drawn to it as if behind an enchantment. The cloud was not made of water, it made it rain, yes: but it rained ash, the same as ...

"Ussìgnur, to put it in the Milanese way," was the reaction of Milan Mayor Beppe Sala on the chat of Italy's mayors that evening of March 9, 2020, on the eve of the press conference in which Giuseppe Conte announced the lockdown. That message...

The spaces of We Lab (viale della Libertà, 89) host the Lecce stage of the fifth edition of the Legaltria Festival, the most important Italian reading project against deviance and crime. LegalItria gives texts on the themes of the event to thousands of ...

It was the 1960s when Lucille Teasdale left for Africa where, together with her husband Piero Corti, she transformed the small hospital in Lacor into one of the first and largest non-profit hospitals in Uganda. But the story of this ...