Simone Schiavinato

Art wants to stir our emotions and our thoughts, to provoke in us a reaction. It wants to offer new points of view and suggest original ways to interpret what’s around us. One can condemn or can dream of a …

Some objects tell us about the crafts that created them. Crafts with a long history made of techniques, tools, and skills improved through experience and trained by the slow, quiet toiling of the workshop. Crafts that developed through knowledgeable hands, …

If you stay away from traditional destinations, you’ll have the opportunity to make interesting discoveries. This is one of the many advantages the Italian peninsula offers. Covid-19, and the many restrictions we have experienced, between hopes and fears, in the …

Science has no boundaries. International collaborations are a sine qua non of the work of researchers and their training. And the more does that work rely on the “solitude” of those labs where connections and relationships with the rest of …

Poetry is more than the words making its verse, more than rhymes and assonances. It evokes entire worlds, paints feelings, creates sensations. It is, essentially, an expression of the soul, the way feelings communicate, a form of sharing. Poetry must …

Thursday, the 2nd of June is the anniversary of the historical referendum with which, in 1946, Italians abolished the monarchy and chose, also with the vote of women, the Republic. A collective celebration of unity for all the people of …

Just think of it: the blue Gulf of Naples and Mount Vesuvius in the background, Capri’s piazzetta,  the magic of Positano, hanging as it is on a cliff above the sea, the yellow of lemons … and a piping hot …

Italy took center stage at this year’s edition of the Oscars, thanks to animation cinema. Credit goes to Marco Regina – the head of animation for The Windshield Wiper – who won a more-than-deserved award for the short, which he …

Italian talent is on show, between cinema (Liotta) and theater (Massini) Being Italian goes beyond image, DNA, and origins. Ray Liotta, adopted when he was 6 months old by Mary and Alfred, both children of Italian immigrants, was born and …

Rudolph Valentino’s story is out of the ordinary. He embodies success at its highest, the chance of reaching the top when doing it, everywhere else, is forbidden, unthinkable, a pure utopia. This is the very meaning many migrants gave to …