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History is made of stories, small, sometimes terrible, sometimes beautiful. The stories of men and women who in their daily lives have suffered and sometimes sublimated poverty, war and exploitation. "In a Life. A history of the...

"In the South we do not live well compared to the North and will the Mezzogiorno become more evolved only when its social structures resemble those of the North?". This is the question around which revolves 'Welfare...

Songs, stories, stornelli, proverbs and popular sayings of Cursi, all together in 'Nc'era nna fiata', so that they will not be lost forever. The author, Giuseppe Luigi Vincenti, collected them from the living voice of grandfather Peppe...

"Everything I know about my roots was told to me by my mother Lucia, on long winter evenings when we would wait for my father to return from work, sitting behind the window panes overlooking the street...

In collaboration with Diffondiamo idee di valore and Conversazioni sul futuro, the Agostiniani Libri review welcomes Giulia Maria Falzea and her book I cannibali (Affiori - Giulio Perrone Editore), which the author presents in dialogue with writer Elisabetta...

The garden of the Biblioteca Ognibene hosts the pages of "Dixieland" (Florestano), by Claudio Lodoli. The story is set in the United States of America at the time of the War of Secession. On 9 April 1865...

"The characters' names are imaginary. The facts told really happened'. This is the incipit of 'Altre storie, altri figuri del Salento' (Associazione promozione sociale Eleusi, Grafiche Giorgiani), the book by Fabrizio Licchetta presented in the garden of...

Beginning with the presentation of the collection of essays "On This Side and Beyond Borders. Looks at the roots of contemporary migrations" (Ombre corte), edited by writer and former professor of Human Rights and History of International Law...

In times of cancel culture, which demonizes without contextualizing, Enzo Ligori performs the reverse operation: he tries to rehabilitate the figure of Ortensio Abbaticchio, a doctor, alchemist and alleged heretic from Cutrofiano. There is news of him...

Meetings with authors continue for Agostiniani Libri, the literary review of the municipality in collaboration with Diffondiamo Idee di valore. It is the turn of Alessio Torino, who presents "Cuori in piena" (Hearts in flood), published by...