Pinocchio: The real story of the mischievous ...

Are we entering an era when robots will finally liberate people, and particularly women, from the drudgery of housework? There is certainly a buzz around domestic robots right now and every month seems to bring us a new autonomous machine that can fold your clothes or stack your ...  Show more

One of the first recorded examples of a marriage ceremony is dated more than 4000 years ago in Mesopotamia. And it seems that through the ages, weddings have never lost their appeal. The global wedding industry is today worth billions of dollars, and it is one that keeps on growi ...  Show more

L’Italie est une terre de spectacles. On y apprécie l’opéra, ou la commedia dell’ arte, ce théâtre de rue qui a tant inspiré Molière... et les spectacles de marionnettes !  Et depuis la fin du XIXe siècle, la marionnette préférée des enfants, c’est celle du roman de ...

Quella di Pinocchio è una delle storie più conosciute a livello mondiale. Ma è davvero così? Conosciamo veramente la storia originale? Oggi ti racconto le avventure del burattino di legno, quelle vere, scritte da Carlo Collodi nell’Ottocento.

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In Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History (University of Toronto Press, 2020), Charles Leavitt steps back from the micro-histories focusing more narrowly on, for example, Italian cinema so as to weave together divers cultural strands (literature, the visual arts, drama, journalis ...  Show more

French Moroccan author Leïla Slimani won critical acclaim and a reputation as an author of bold & brutal fiction with her first two novels. Adele is about a bourgeoise Parisian wife and mother who lives a sexually promiscuous secret life. In Lullaby, a nanny kills the children sh ...  Show more