LORENZO BARBERIS Ricorre quest’anno, come arcinoto, il mezzo secolo della prima edizione dell’Orlando Furioso, data che, coincidendo con i quattrocento anni della morte di Shakespeare e Cervantes, è celebrata come giornata mondiale della letteratura. Margutte ha già omaggiato doverosamente la…
La valigia di Hermes, Saggistica
Ambiguità dell’apparenza / apparenza dell’ambiguità
Le ultime lettere di Giuda Iscariota. FRANCO RUSSO. Giuda Iscariota non è un personaggio a cui si possano assegnare le categorie dell’apparenza o dell’ambiguità. Anzi. Giuda è solare: per Dante il peccatore più infame, degno del castigo più crudele nell’ultima…
La valigia di Hermes, Narrativa
Ariosto, 500 anni dopo…
LUDOVICO ARIOSTO. 1 Le donne antique hanno mirabil cose fatto ne l’arme e ne le sacre muse; e di lor opre belle e gloriose Gran lume in tutto il mondo si diffuse. Arpalice e Camilla son famose, perché in battaglia erano…
L'ambrosia di Dioniso, Teatro
MA4OG
Quarant’anni dell’Associazione Culturale Magog di Alba. GIAN MINETTI Com’eravamo Eravamo un gruppo di amici, stimolati – anche inconsapevolmente – dai venti di cambiamento di quello che era stato il 1968, un anno fondamentale per quella che all’epoca veniva chiamata “cultura…
La valigia di Hermes, Narrativa
L’incredibile storia del profeta Mansur
Venticinquesima puntata - Cuori in attesa FRANCESCO PICCO Padre Boetti, dunque, doveva andare a Roma. A farsi condannare, come San Paolo, ma non da Cesare, bensì da Pietro, o qualche suo sottoposto; e non da solo. Con lui doveva andare la sua…
Le stanze di Cronos
Mondi minori
SILVIA PAPI Europa. Crogiuolo di razze che le hanno dato forma attraverso i secoli. Culture, tradizioni, religioni. Diversità climatiche, di sapori e saperi. Dalle coste mediterranee fino ai paesi del nord. Oggi, e non per la prima volta, terra spaventata…
La valigia di Hermes, Narrativa
Il filo che ci lega
SILVIA PIO (a cura di) “Stamattina si è posata sul mio davanzale una ballerina. La ballerina è un piccolo uccellino il cui nome scientifico è mocellina alba, ha le dimensioni di un passerotto, è bianca e grigia e muove incessantemente…
La valigia di Hermes, Poesia
Poeti dal mondo, Federico Rivero Scarani, Uruguay
Poesie dal tramonto Ti porteranno calici scuri e amari ti chiameranno con parole d’acciaio giocheranno col tuo senno e i tuoi sogni loro, ineffabili esseri senza tempo cercheranno nella bruma il tuo nome per far sì che esso si ubbriachi…
Gli svaghi platonici, Viaggi vicini e lontani
Valle Pesio
ROBERTA FERRARIS La vicinanza del mare è responsabile per l’abbondanza di precipitazioni che rendono questa valle tra le più boscose delle Alpi occidentali. Le risorse forestali sono state per secoli saggiamente amministrate dalla Certosa di Pesio. Il legname era trasformato…
Il regno di Clio, Narrativa
Intervista (si spera) Impossibile ovvero Della Saggezza
GABRIELLA VERGARI. Rintracciarlo non fu facile ma infine lo trovarono mentre passeggiava lungo i viali della sua tenuta, in compagnia degli inseparabili cani. Dimostrava ormai l’età, canuto più che brizzolato, alto e magrissimo, vestito con sobria eleganza. Accolse il G.C.…
La valigia di Hermes, Poesia
Poesia per il cambiamento
(SILVIA PIO a cura) Poesie: SPIAGGIA DI CONCHIGLIE Michael Rothenberg PERCHÉ HO INIZIATO AD ALLEVARE FARFALLE Terri Carrion Intervista a Michael Rothenberg e Terry Carrión, fondatori del movimento poetico globale 100mila Poeti per il Cambiamento Cos’è l’iniziativa 100mila Poeti per…
Arte, L'ambrosia di Dioniso
I Nudi di Carla Tomatis
LORENZO BARBERIS Di recente, un dipinto della pittrice monregalese Carla Tomatis – quello riportato in copertina del presente articolo – è stato selezionato quale cover del catalogo 2016 dell’Accademia di Santa Sara di Alessandria, realtà espositiva guidata dal critico Flavio…
Le stanze di Cronos, Vicende vissute
Mio padre Amedeo
RINO GIACHINO Mio padre fumava trinciato forte, un tabacco nero, dal profumo intenso. Mi mandava a comprarlo insieme alle cartine nel negozio dei Gavarino, sempre e solo un pacchetto perché era sicuro che sarebbe stato l’ultimo. Smise parecchie volte di…
La valigia di Hermes, Narrativa
I diari della varicella
IL CALA. AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAnche la luvi ha la varicella. A quasi due anni di distanza dal precedente “Scusa, Ameri – i diari del calcetto” Alberto Calandriello (Il Cala) torna in libreria con “I diari della varicella” per la savonese Matisklo Edizioni,…
La valigia di Hermes, Poesia
Francesco Granatiero. Mattinata è un orizzonte sui mondi
FRANCESCO GRANATIERO Cíle Da qui si doveva cominciare: il cielo. WISŁAWA SZYMBORSKA, La fine e l’inizio Lustre o scurde, vacande, tu nne ste’ sckitte ngíle ca tuttecòuse ammande e trapaniscjë, oi cíle. Càlete o fridde, mbile la crone che me…