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The protagonist of "The darning of dreams" (ed. Il Raggio Verde) is a "maca", a sort of village shaman. The book, by Tina Rizzo De Giovanni, is presented...

The numbers, the situation of women, children, foreigners and minors, work, training and schooling, alternative measures and probation, agricultural colonies and electronic bracelets. These are just some of the topics covered in the 18th report on conditions in Italian prisons, published by the Antigone association, which...

Between irony, perhaps a bit bitter, subtle provocations and sarcasm at the tip of a pen, Aldo Recchia has his say on the arrogance of mankind and the claim to ...

It was September 14, 1519 when five sailing ships, carrying 265 men, set sail from the port Seville toward the New World. In command of the flagship, the Trinidad, was Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer who was convinced that...

They escape death, in a romantic and fictional way but, when the war is over, things do not go as they had dreamed. "Un amore partigiano" (ed. Feltrinelli) is the novel by Concepts Vecchio, written together with ...

Cycle tourism is a particularly environmentally friendly, economical way of travelling outside the usual canons and routes of mass tourism, as well as a lever for the local economy.  It is widespread in Europe, especially in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, France and Spain, countries with a ...

He is the poet for children… and for old people. Bruno Tognolini, writer, author of books (more than 55), TV, theater, songs and digital works, lands in Lecce in one of the spaces that is certainly more "congenial" to him, the OgniBene library. The rambling poet, who has been touring...

"The God of the Jews did not know Apulia, otherwise he would not have given his people Palestine as a promised land". With these words of Emperor Frederick II of Swabia begins the "Journey to Puglia" (Rizzoli publisher) by the writer and poet from Bari Raffaello Mastrolonardo, translated into ...

The love for Lecce and the passion for writing. These are the two cornerstones of the social page "When football was beautiful" created by Andrea Polo and Francesco Fedele, whose posts in the last four years have become the book of the same name ...

"Italians visit Italy". The somewhat peremptory phrase is also the title of the book by Ester Capuzzo, whose subtitle reads, and clearly clarifies the author's intent, "Politics and tourism dynamics in Italy between the two world wars". The volume, presented in the Cloister 500 of the Bernardini library as part of the ExtraConvitto review, reconstructs the public intervention in the tourism sector in the last phase of the liberal state and during fascism, when tourism was transformed into a tool for the search for consent. Fascism directed the use of free time by workers and the new generations, accustoming Italians to holidays and broadening their cultural and geographical horizon. Dialogue with the author Giuliana Iurlano (UniSalento).

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