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La storia meravigliosa della vita di Nicola Martinelli. Nato nel 1925, in un piccolo paese sul Lago di Garda, imparò il mestiere di sarto in una bottega locale, poi emigrò a Milano dove divenne uno dei sarti più celebri ed esclusivi. Costretto dalla salute cagionevole a interrompere la professione,...

Per riuscire nel gravoso intento di districare la matassa eclettica della produzione di Pier Paolo Pasolini, il proposito di percorrerne le fasi dagli anni della formazione all’incontro con le borgate romane (e le sue rivelazioni di senso), fino all’amara presa di coscienza finale, può fungere...

Vitruvius was not a great literary personage, ambitious as he was to appear in that character. As Professor Morgan has aptly said, "he has all the marks of one unused to composition, to whom writing is a painful task." In his hand the measuring-rod was a far mightier implement than the pen....

Business Not As Usual 2 is a candid account, in 57 down-to-earth narrative essays on crucial issues that commonly arise when running a business through both hard and easy times. Although all about business, the topics are wide ranging. The author's company was a virtual management laboratory...

The life story of Colonel William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill," as told by his sister and Zane Grey. It begins with his boyhood in Iowa and his first encounter with an Indian. We see "Bill" as a pony express rider, then near Fort Sumter as Chief of the Scouts, and later engaged in the...

La figura di Giacomo Leopardi è una delle più importanti del panorama letterario italiano. Il suo pensiero è stato fonte d’ispirazione per i filosofi tedeschi del dolore e per i simbolisti francesi. Col passare del tempo, però, parte della sua personalità e del suo pensiero sono stati persi....

Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, Childhood; Boyhood; Youth, in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an 'awkward mixture of fact and fiction', generations of readers have not agreed, finding the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against...

There is an old anecdote, probably apocryphal, which describes how a feminine admirer wrote to Browning asking him for the meaning of one of his darker poems, and received the following reply: "When that poem was written, two people knew what it meant--God and Robert Browning. And now God only knows what it means.

Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological, and educational thought.

The Seventh Letter of Plato is an epistle that tradition has ascribed to Plato. It is by far the longest of the epistles of Plato and gives an autobiographical account of his activities in Sicily as part of the intrigues between Dion and Dionysius of Syracuse for the tyranny of Syracuse. It also contains...

The conflict between scientific observation and poetry, reflections on abolition, transcendental philosophy, other concerns are explored in this superb general selection from Thoreau's voluminous Journal. Here are "...the choicest fruits of Thoreau..." — Nation. Henry David Thoreau...

Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish writer, playwright, and painter. Along with Henrik Ibsen, Søren Kierkegaard, Selma Lagerlöf and Hans Christian Andersen he is arguably the most influential and famous of all Scandinavian authors. Strindberg is known as one of the fathers of modern theatre. His...

Awake in a moment she came to open the door in her smock, and without a light. As I wanted one, I told her to get the flint and steel, which she did, warning me in a modest voice that she was not dressed. “That’s of no consequence,” said I, “provided you are covered.” She said no more, and soon lighted a candle, but she could not help laughing when she saw me dripping wet.

The author of this series has made it his special object to confine himself very strictly, even in the most minute details which he records, to historic truth. The narratives are not tales founded upon history, but history itself, without any embellishment, or any deviations from the strict truth...