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In the cosy, warm and intimate room in Via Santa Maria del Paradiso, the 23rd edition of “Le Mani e l'Ascolto” continues. Every year the Fondo Verri allows the fusion of music and words coming from several artists, with the aim of...

A stone's throw from Porta Rudiae, the 23rd edition of “Le Mani e l'Ascolto” continues. For 23 years, the Fondo Verri has been hosting music, words and performances in a desire to meet and share. The protagonist on...

In the cosy, warm and intimate room in Via Santa Maria del Paradiso, the Fondo Verri in Lecce welcomes the start of the 23rd edition of “Le Mani e l'Ascolto”. Every year music and words by musicians and writers come...

She has been “star dancer” in the La Scala Ballet Company since 2014, when she was only 23 years old. She was recently appointed “étoile danseur”, the first and only occasion in history when this title is conferred outside the Paris Opera, underlining her extraordinary talents. Her name is Nicoletta Manni, born...

Those of people with disabilities are stories that have to face various kind of constraints in everyday life. Stories that confront with social stigmas on a daily basis, especially when they encounter the experience of motherhood. Thus, five women who were going through this experience without...

Beyond the surface of a cynical, venial society, engulfed by the chase after time that flees, there is still a land that some souls know how to make bloom. That soul, for Anna Maria Bernone, is the poet who, like no other, knows how to tell of a new rebirth through suffering but also through a smile. And...

What if those who are close to us hide terrible secrets? From this question develops the plot of Marina Di Guardo's latest work, “Quello che ti nascondevo” (Mondadori). Giacomo owns a jewellery brand, and is widower of Allegra, who fell from a cliff overlooking Lake Como. Since his wife is no longer...

A dense narrative that overlooks the junctures of contemporary news and history. Ten years before and after the symbolic fall of the Berlin Wall, but above all before the peak of “mafia neo-capitalism”. "L'altro" (Squilibri, 2023), Pippo Pollina's latest work, takes us between the pages of the story of...

"To heal is to recognise who we are beyond the wound and to come to find within ourselves the union with the dreamed, desired love". This is Anna Fermi's mantra as she retraces the stages of the spiritual experience of...

Carlotta is a 13 years-old girl, and leads a quiet life, in a family like many others, in a house overlooking the bitter fields of Salento. Emma, on the other hand, is a little older, and is quite the opposite. Daughter of musicians, she is half Irish and lives in a psychedelic villa where the rules stop at the...