Father Unknown
Father Unknown A Dantesque mystery Marco Montagnin Literature It is assumed that everyone knows – or should know – Dante's main writingsIf someone were to ask, “Who is the most…
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QuoVadis?
Quo Vadis? Marco Montagnin Literature In literary fiction lives a Petronius, no matter whether being the real one or not; he is the arbiter elegantiarum, an aesthete"For his outstanding merits…
De poesia
De Poesia In defence of poetry Arvid Literature Vale poesiaDuring my solitary nomadic travels around the world; despite my strong inclination against sharing my thoughts with any inhabitant of this…
Copper rose
Copper rose Marco Montagnin Literature May a red flower grow, a copper rose, and an inscription with your name. Oh heroes of a distant past – forgetful – arise from my…
Ovid
Ovid Marco Montagnin Literature Parve – nec invideo - sine me, liber, ibis in UrbemThe exsilium, unlike in the past, is now a passive, voluntary condemnation: it is a way…
The Importance of Being Beat
The Importance of Being Beat A Failed Revolution Marco Montagnin Literature it was an ephemeral revolution that was nipped in the bud because it was incompatible with the timesI was…
John Keats
John Keats Marco Montagnin Literature She dwells with Beauty—Beauty that must dieOde to PsycheO Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers, wrung By sweet enforcement and remembrance dear,And pardon that thy secrets…
Here lies One Whose name was writ in water
Here lies One Whose name was writ in water John Keats Marco Montagnin Literature I weep for Adonais—he is dead!Oh, weep for Adonais! though our tearsThaw not the frost which…
Necropolis
Necropolis Arvid Literature And it is at that precise moment that you step out of time, that you feel alive in the company of the dead. Life flows rhythmically in time,…
Abelard and Héloïse
Abelard and Héloïse Marco Montagnin Literature But love remained: a helpless love, a distant memory that breached the mind by flooding it with memories; it was no longer a carnal…