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La Pantomima di Stato: un racconto
Un piccolo regalo a chi ha appena finito gli esami di Stato: un racconto ambientato durante la 'maturità', tratto dalla mia collection di short-stories Questa scuola non è una azienda! - i racconti del prof. Bingo (ed. Pendragon, Bologna... -
Non è per nulla dolce naufragare in questo mare
https://youtu.be/UOWLLGzB06E Mi è giunta voce che nei licei di qualche lontano paese culturalmente sottosviluppato può anche succedere questo durante l'orario scolastico. Mi dicono che laggiù pochi giorni orsono si pensava di aver già to... -
Il prof. Bingo e la fabbrica dei cretini – Booktrailer: video con testo
Caro lettore, caro libero pensatore, caro collega, caro genitore, caro studente, Se pensi che il mondo dell’istruzione goda oggi di buona salute, se pensi che la cosiddetta Buona Scuola sia un fiore all’occhiello della nostra società, se... -
Mediterranean Summer, chapter 3 – West Sicily, Monument Valley by the sea. In the name of the law?
You’ll see no Rome, Florence, Venice or Taormina in this diary. Instead, I’ll take you to small unknown places of rare beauty often harbouring next to territorial or industrial diseases, ‘ugliness’ of various kinds that makes Italy the c... -
World Cup 2018 – out of the cup, into the mud: corruption,violence, beauty in Italian football
All the World is a Football Stage 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, slush funds... -
‘Trattativa stato-mafia’ verdict: The Berlusconi government’s deal with the devil confirmed, good omen for his recent official ‘rehabilitation’
In 2013 I wrote a whole chapter dedicated to the trattativa stato-mafia in my book about Berlusconi when just a few believed it had happened. Proud of it. Thank you Di Matteo is my first tweet after the sentence (trattativa stato-mafia&n... -
Mediterranean Summer, chapter 2 – Matera, the unbelievable ‘city of stones’: from dust to stardom
You’ll see no Rome, Florence, Venice or Taormina in this diary. Instead, I’ll take you to small unknown places of rare beauty often harbouring next to territorial or industrial diseases, ‘ugliness’ of various kinds that makes Italy the c... -
Mediterranean Summer, chapter 1- Malta: Christendom facing the Muslim dominion
You’ll see no Rome, Florence, Venice or Taormina in this diary. Instead, I’ll take you to small unknown places of rare beauty often harbouring next to territorial or industrial diseases, ‘ugliness’ of various kind that makes Italy the cr... -
Adults in the Room – review
The courage, the stress, the loneliness, the fatigue, the hard work, the uncertainties, the toughness of a war voluntarily chosen for a high moral duty. What happens when you take on the establishment? In this blistering, personal accoun... -
Books, music and the like – my likes #2: miscellanea reviews
Exsiles (J. Joyce) - James (P. Everett) - Il regno fragile (Tiziana Prezzo) - 68 – Ce n’est qu’un debut… (Paolo Brogi) - Storie di sport e poltica (A. Molinari, G. Toni) - A Year in Provence (P. Mayle) - Soprannome Dreamer (G. Luppi) boo...
