La pioggia nel pineto

Rain in the pinewoods, D’Annunzio’s masterpiece of poetry. Credits: “L’estate” by Antonio Vivaldi, 1725. Featuring: Stijn Vermeire, who knows the poem by heart.

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Il prete bello

Reading about “The Handsome Priest”, a 1954 novel by Goffredo Parise, probably his best work as a realist writer. A fresco of ordinary Italians under the Fascist regime. Credits: “Vivere”

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