Category: Europe

Sicily cannot be compared with any corner of Italy. Sicily is a separate, like nothing else world. An ancient land that has absorbed the great history and cultures of different peoples. Wisdom and greatness of ancient times. Greek and Roman theaters, Arabic mosques, magnificent baroque ensembles, powerful medieval fortresses and castles, ancient cities with labyrinths of narrow streets, squares with fountains and cathedrals, museums with collections of masterpieces of world…

In the sector of economic relations with foreign countries, exports, especially for developments in the second half, recorded an increase of 12% in value and of about 20% in quantity, against increases of 4 and 9% respectively on the side. of imports. As a result, the trade deficit in the balance of payments was reduced from 373 to 125 million dollars and the part of imports covered by exports went…

According to Vaultedwatches.com, the Suez crisis caused in the second half of 1956 and in the first months of 1957 an upward movement of prices, which affected not only the goods forming the object of the transit trade through the canal, but spread to numerous other products, due to the increase in freight rates and hoardings. The import price index registered a 7% increase between June 1956 and January 1957…

If 1953 can be considered the year of the return to a normal situation, after the overcoming of the decreasing phase of the Korean economy, it also represents the starting point for a further development of the Italian economy. The period from the end of 1953 to the Suez crisis was characterized by a continuous progress of economic activity, which took place in a climate of substantial monetary stability and…

In Switzerland, Michele Ferrucci di Lugo taught Latin literature in Geneva and was one of the founders of the Geneva Society of History and Archeology. Filippo De Boni da Caupo near Feltre, historian and journalist, was from 1849 to 1860 in Zurich, where he published the Michele Ferrucci di Lugo taught Latin literature in Geneva and was one of the founders of the Geneva Society of History and Archeology. Filippo De Boni da…

In the century XVIII, from GD Cassini to Lagrange, from the Ragusa archaeologist Anselmo Banduri, librarian in Paris, to Ennio Quirino Visconti, Italy gave France outstanding scientists, as with the Riccoboni actors and authors, with Galiani, with Casanova, with Goldoni, with Denina, with Gerdil and many others gave her more or less talented writers in the French language. But other little-known men want to remember. Giovanni Oliva (who died in 1757) took care…

According to Sportsqna.com, Italian immigration was active in England, reaching its peak under Henry VIII and Elizabeth. Andrea Ammonio from Lucca, Henry VIII’s secretary for Latin letters, sang his victories over France in a Latin poem; Polidoro Virgilio from Urbino lived in England and was commissioned by Henry VII to write its history (1534); Petruccio Ubaldini, after having fought for Henry VIII, became the historian of Edward VI; Giovanni Florio was a distinguished philologist…

Of the troubadours of Italy, Sordello da Goito was in Provence for 40 years; Bonifacio Calvo, from Genoa, lived from 1252 onwards at the court of Alfonso X of Castile. Ruggero da Benevento wrote in Hungary a history of the invasion of the Mongols; and Brunetto Latini spent about six years in France, where he wrote, in French prose,  Li livres dou Tresor . Italian culture penetrated Bohemia with Enrico d’Isernia, founder in Prague of a…

Narrator in verse, clear, lively, loose, Riccardo Balsamo-Crivelli ( Boccaccino ,  La fiaba di Calugino , etc.) had not undeserved a critical applause, which shows what fascination certainly gentle and delicate archaism has in Italy, in which he satisfies the traditional sense of form. And this is one of the reasons for the success of Sem Benelli’s plays too, dramatic dramas, but lacking in true vitality, which know of literature in inventions, in language, in…

According to Rrrjewelry.com, characteristic in the writers of the twentieth century is this union of the creative spirit with the critical spirit, a union that, contemporaneity or succession, in any case requires an awareness of the creative work, which benefits and perhaps more often to the detriment of art. An acute critic of modern and contemporary literature was in his debut Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, who then acquired a conspicuous place among…

For these writers, Futurism was above all a school of freedom and they gave them much more than they did not receive any. For others it was a short episode in their literary career, an art experiment that led them to better find themselves in forms descending from the old romanticism. The sensational apostle of Futurism in a certain period of his activity was Giovanni Papini, whose intellectual life must be interpreted…

Essential character of Italian literature in the first thirty years of the century. XX is a spirit of reaction to that tendency, which manifested itself in the last decades of the XIX, which seemed to hint at a degeneration (back in the centuries) of the sense of form – a precious achievement of a classical education many times secular – in the study of renewal or imitation of forms. Reaction therefore to…