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On traveling
The following is a partial translation of Hermann Hesse’s beautiful essay Über das Reisen (1904, On Traveling). (…) About the question of how modern man should travel there are several books and booklets, but among these I do not know any good ones. Anyone who is leaving for a leisure trip should still know what…
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International day of Forests and Poetry, March 21, 2019
What do trees and poems have in common? What do they teach us? How can we listen to them? Here are some enlightening reflections from Hermann Hesse’s Wandering and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature. “For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests…
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Bach on the Dolomites
Extraordinary concert in the Paveneggio Natural Park to remember the young people killed during WW1 and the natural disaster that destroyed the trees that made possible the construction of the Stradivari’s violins. An estimated one million cubic metres of forest … Continue reading →
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Digital Cultures
The emergence of a reality organized around the Internet is provoking a profound crisis of identity in which the older principles of self-orientation and communitarian identification lose their effectiveness. What concepts, what methods do we need to understand the “knowledge space” in which we live an increasing part of our life? How can we orient…
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“The Wisdom of the Hand and the memory of a Mediterranean More than Human Humanism”
This is an essay published in Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature. The Denatured Wild Ed. by Pasquale Verdicchio. Lanham-Boulder-New York-London: Lexinton Books, 2016. 1-30. In my essay I first address the documentaries that Vittorio De Seta shot in Sicily between 1954 and 1955 to document, with a certain urgency, the work of peasants, tuna-fishermen and sword-fishermen, in a world that,…
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“Worlds of Meaning”
This is the Editorial I wrote for the new monographic volume of the e-journal Humanist Studies & the Digital Age entitled Networks and Projects: New Platforms in Digital Humanities, edited by Crystall Hall, Massimo Lollini and Massimo Riva. It was published in December 2017. The sections Perspectives and Interventions of the journal are devoted to the publication of…
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