“When I grow up, I’ll be a painter. Like Michelangelo. But I don’t say it too loudly. What dad thinks. I know very well.” Translated from Swedish, here The bird in me flies where it wants by Saraj Lundberg. Berta Elisabet Hansson was a Swedish artist. She was in the 1940s and 1950s an expressionist … Read more
Many times we forget it, but humans are, above all, animals. And the best linguistic proof of this is the place that other animals occupy in our speech. Obviously, there are all these expressions, from the time of the pig to the life of the dog, from the ground floor to sticking out the tongue … Read more
In 1513, Machiavelli is a ruined man, denied by all. After so many good and loyal services, we turn our backs on him like dirt. He then retired to the countryside on his property in Sant’Andrea in the Chianti region. It was from the depths of this exile that he began to write his most … Read more