Enzo: 229 books

Le tentazioni sono "compagne di viaggio" di ogni uomo che cerca di vivere una vita autentica e libera. Esse non sono, come spesso si crede, un ostacolo alla fede, ma un invito a imparare l’arte della resistenza, e a riscoprire il momento della prova come esperienza essenziale alla libertà:...

Enzo Bianchi dedica questo volume della serie "Se questa vita ha un senso" all’ingordigia «madre di tutte le passioni» (Basilio di Cesarea).Se è vero che noi oggi diamo poca importanza all’ingordigia, al punto che non la consideriamo più come un peccato, è altrettanto vero che, mai come oggi,...

Enzo Bianchi dedica questo volume della serie “Se questa vita ha un senso” alla collera. La collera, l’ira (orghé) è quella passione che ci assale come un vento impetuoso, emerge come un bollore improvviso dal nostro intimo e divampa come un fuoco divorante, avendo come bersaglio l’altro, gli...

I have collected in this ebook some published and unpublished essays on Old and Modern English literature and language. The first group of essays is devoted to Early Medieval English literature, while the others are about Medieval, modern and contemporary writers, from Chaucer to Orwell. I hope that...

For the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy. Some children play. Their enjoyment is ping-pong. They don’t think what is Italy. For them it’s where they are born. They know there are different dialects, different economic conditions, the climate is different too. But in their hearts it’s...

“One for the road” is a widely used toast around the English-speaking world. The origin of this expression is linked to the London tradition of offering a drink to those sentenced to death during the journey of the approximately three miles which separated them from Tyburn Tree and the gallows....

Do You Want to Transform Your Daily Routine? Losing weight can be such a challenge, right? Hours on hours, day after day, month after month in the gym and obtaining minimal results. It can be incredibly boring, running on a treadmill? No thanks. Not to mention the low self-esteem as a result...

Abandonarlo todo y huir. Irse al sur, a la Patagonia, a la casa donde pasó los veranos de la infancia. Esa es la estrategia para dejar atrás una relación enfermiza que terminó de la peor manera y una vida que parecía encaminada pero que de pronto perdió sentido. Lejos de la ciudad, en la desolación...

Aigues-Mortes, 17 agosto 1893. La folla inferocita, aizzata ad arte, attacca gli italiani recatisi a svolgere l’infame lavoro estivo nelle locali saline. Dieci operai italiani vengono linciati, centinaia di altri si salvano per miracolo. Episodi di razzismo che ci colpivano quando i migranti eravamo...

The book is the report of a research study on the historical figure of Ser Gianni Caracciolo, who lived in Naples at the turn of 1300 and 1400, and who was the protagonist of the political events of the Kingdom of Naples, in a period of turmoil and controversial. Following these events, richs of adventurous...

Europe’s second Thirty Years’ War—an epoch of blood and ashes Fire and Blood looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single historical sequence: the age of the European Civil War (1914–1945). Its overture was played out in the trenches of the Great War; its coda on...

Jewish modernity flourished between the age of Enlightenment and the Second World War, and its intellectual, literary, scientific and artistic legacy continues to dazzle us. In this provocative new book, however, Enzo Traverso argues powerfully that Jewish modernity has exhausted itself. Previously a...

The volume publishes some essays illustrating experiences which attempted to promote reading with very young children in nurseries and infant schools, as part of a project on the picture books by Eric Carle, a well-known American illustrator of children's books. In particular, this initiative took...

Abba, give me a word!' So young monks and visitors to desert monasteries would often address an 'elder' at the beginning of the fourth century. These seekers believed that a word originating outside oneself would descend into the heart and give direction to one's inner life. Enzo Bianchi has tried...