When I was a child, every now and then I had a dream which hasn’t ceased to recur in different…
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Piedmont, 1969. The lifeless bodies of two missing children are unearthed after an anonymous letter is received by the local…
October 1672Box number four […] She pushes the leafless branches of a hawthorn aside and ventures through nettles, belly-high; her…
Lombardy, Autumn 1652. Weary of being abused by the nobility and the soldiers that keep pillaging the land, a group…
PONT DU GARD Vers-Pont-du-Gard, France The tallest bridge built by the Ancient Romans around 20 BC was part of an…
Fifty bridges, sketched in black, bathed in blue and white. Bridges built using stone or timber, made of powerful tree…
When children are much more perceptive than adults give them credit for… From Ritanna Armeni‘s Hour After Hour My grandchildren…
Andrà tutto bene (All Shall Be Well) Writers at the Time of the Quarantine by Ritanna Armeni, Stefania Auci, Alice…
THE ITALIANIST. From MARA. UNA DONNA DEL NOVECENTO by Ritanna Armeni, translated by Katherine Gregor
The sound of the bell, and of Nadia’s fist hammering on the door. “Mara!” Whenever we have something to say…
1930s’ Rome. Mara, thirteen, and her best friend Nadia are inebriated by their enthusiasm for Fascism and its promise of…
Jacopo Rosatelli […] the risk nowadays is that politics is seen as something we cannot influence. Putting it simply, if…
“Political thinkers, in general, can be divided into two classes: the Utopian with his head in the clouds and the…
