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Raimondello Orsini del Balzo, the cadet son of Count Orsini, who lived in the Kingdom of Naples between the 14th and 15th centuries, is a recurring character in the Salento's vicissitudes. He escaped from an ecclesiastical career to ...

Aldo Moro's study was located in Via Savoia. He wanted it there, far from the 'Palazzo', to maintain a sort of demarcation line between his way of seeing life and politics, and that of his party companions, allies and adversaries. This is the starting point of ...

In the groove of epic and classical writing, Annamaria Colomba's verses contained in the volume "Canto solitario di Penelope nuova" (ed. L'Officina delle parole) echo in the spaces of the Ogni Bene library for the...

Can cities be thought, imagined and lived according to needs, necessities, but also according to people's actual rights? More, by offering answers to women and gender minorities? "Milano Atlante di genere" (ed. LetteraVentidue), by Florencia Andreola and Azzurra Muzzonigro, is ...

Genius and unruliness, charm and political commitment, nonconformity and existential angst. Renato Caccioppoli was all this and much more, and recounting it is Lorenza Foschini in "The Friction of Life. Investigation of Renato Caccioppoli, Neapolitan mathematician" (Theseus' Ship). The journalist and writer ...

"I dedicate this book to the men who know how to love women, who value and respect them," is Laura Boldrini's dedication in her book "This is not normal" (Chairelettere) in which the Italian politician and former UN official ...

It is 1974: Pierfrancesco, a brilliant high school student, is ready to take flight towards a future full of promise. Meanwhile, there is summer, 'the one that fixes everything', with friends, parties, first crushes and music. But ...

Pugliese, journalist for La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno and 'lover' of Naples and Neapolitan culture. Vincenzo Sparviero presents his novel 'Vedi Napoli e poi canta' ('See Naples and then sing'), a book that embraces the peculiarities ...

Werner is only seven years old when he learns that his mother is the secret daughter of Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler. His grandfather, then, was not a sweet and loving old man but the most execrable criminal in History, and this guilt that is not his own will make him into a man...

We talk about the performing arts and rituals of Kerala in the meeting with musician and ethnomusicologist Paolo Pacciolla, originally from Salento and now a citizen of Kerala since 2018. A path of knowledge through a rich tale of...