Writings– category –

My cover/live versions of some of the ballads that shaped the country's ambiguous history My personal (in progress) contribution and performance to 250 years of American popular culture, songs 'that shaped us', written and/or performed b...

Letteratura, musica e lingua inglese: un terzetto ben intonato (La Bacca di Lauro n. 72/2026, periodico dell'università UteMo) (...) La musica è emozione, “amplificatore di segnali”, e quando è virtuosismo è fine a sé stessa,vana estetic...

Authentic material da sfruttare come approfondimento linguistico. (La Bacca di Lauro n. 72/2026, periodico dell'università UteMo) Come per la musica, i film clip in originale sono utili per introdurre argomenti di attualità, prospettive ...

LISTEN TO THE ARTICLE There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for...

Here is a determinedly old-fashioned drama, verbose and elaborate but also forthright and watchable in its way. It is a Stoppardian what-if meeting, imagining a bruising encounter between two celebrated historical figures who could, theo...

Looking forward to the American elections, part 1. The subtitle of my book about Berlusconi’s Italy reads The all-Italian story of the man who gave us Trump. In the book I write that “Trump may be more powerful, and more dangerous, than ...

Italian football: mirror of a society where no one pays Italian football is the mirror of our society: it means organized crime connections, both at top management level or at mafia and camorra rank; it means corruption, in match fixing,...

Listen to the review: A shocking wonderful surprise. A pitch-black noir, darker than the classic ones, in the Mediterranean sunshine Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo My rating: 5 of 5 stars A shocking wonderful surprise. This novel is a p...

R. Mitchum, to the femme fatale while framing the villain: When your teeth stop chattering, you get Ortega on the phone ... R. Mitchum, alla protagonista femminile mentre tiene sotto tiro il cattivo: Quando i denti finiranno di...

Notes on this Fall's picks Very interesting biopic of a lesser-known character, more famous for his 'deadly toy' than his biography, which is instead full of strange facts. Who would say that the father of the atomic bomb was a communist...