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C.S. Lewis: Lontano dal pianeta silenzioso
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C.S. Lewis: Lontano dal pianeta silenzioso
22 sep 17
Oxford, 1937: in C.S. Lewis's apartment at Magdalen College, J.R.R. Tolkien and the host read to a small group of friends who gather regularly on Thursday evenings some chapters from the novels they are writing: The Lord of the Rings and Out of the Silent Planet.
The two great fantasy sagas indeed emerged and grew in parallel – and both were founded on the same realization: “I’m afraid,” C.S. Lewis had told Tolkien, “that if we want to read stories that we like, we will have to write them ourselves.”
(from Adelphi)
C.S. Lewis: Perelandra
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C.S. Lewis: Perelandra
22 sep 17
...a daring venture to write a trilogy of metaphysical science fiction, the world had not yet been overwhelmed by myriad tales of star wars.
Lewis anticipated them – but he quickly went far beyond.
In fact, what mattered most to him was not the creation of distant cosmic settings (in which he was, after all, a master), but something more adventurous: to narrate a new challenge between Good and Evil where Good manages to win in a plausible way...
(from Adelphi)
Caetano Veloso: Circuladô Vivo
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Caetano Veloso: Circuladô Vivo
10 sep 17
It's an anthology of highly successful pieces, traditional songs, and pop covers.
Caetano Veloso: Livro
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Caetano Veloso: Livro
10 sep 17
Caetano Veloso returns to the studio along with Morelenbaum; in addition to strings, the arrangements include a generous dose of brass and percussion.
Caetano Veloso: Cê
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Caetano Veloso: Cê
10 sep 17
A sudden change of direction, after the melodic refinements and tributes to the classical repertoire that the great Bahian singer-songwriter had been engaged in lately.

Veloso releases an electric “rock” album: an intellectual and skeletal rock, sharp and nervous, reminiscent of Arto Lindsay and Marc Ribot and certainly not the mainstream, in some cases Lou Reed and the very first Talking Heads. (source: rockol.it)
Caetano Veloso: Noites do Norte
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Caetano Veloso: Noites do Norte
10 sep 17
With “Noites do norte,” the man from Bahia chooses to take us back to his country, through less-traveled roads and paths.

The work is indeed sometimes harsh, a bit wild and primitive, aimed at highlighting the African origins of a large segment of the Brazilian population.

Thus, we find ourselves facing compositions that are often dry, filled with many percussions, often counterbalanced by clear and sharp melodic lines.

All of this seems to clash, especially during the first listens, but then “Noites…” sneaks in like a “Cobra coral” and bites us, injecting a very sweet poison called feeling. (cit. kalporz.com)
Caetano Veloso: Tropicália 2
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Caetano Veloso: Tropicália 2
10 sep 17
It is an album by Brazilian composers Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil.

The record was recorded between Rio de Janeiro and Salvador de Bahia in the spring of 1993, released 25 years after the album "Tropicália: ou Panis et Circenses" from 1968, which the two artists had created and is considered the musical manifesto of the movement called Tropicalismo or Tropicália. (cit. wiki)

The album represents the coexistence of many different cultures that are, seemingly, at opposite ends, such as the Brazilian ones (a unique phenomenon in the world): a hybrid album, full of geographical references from across the country, from the arid and poor northeast to Bahia with Itapoa, from Ipanema to Brasília – a nightmarish capital built in the desert... (cit. Ermenegildo De Stefano)
Caetano Veloso: Tropicália: ou Panis et Circencis
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Caetano Veloso: Tropicália: ou Panis et Circencis
10 sep 17
The album features various artists associated with tropicalismo: among them Gilberto Gil, Tom Zé, Os Mutantes, and Gal Costa, it is regarded as a manifesto of "música popular brasileira."
Caetano Veloso: Charles Anjo 45
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Caetano Veloso: Charles Anjo 45
10 sep 17
This single (too beautiful) was recorded for me by a music professor, who was also a drummer, that I met when I was working as a quarterly at the Biennale in Venice in '86, and he had placed it at the end of an album of, um, Jimi Hendrix since there was still a bit of tape left...
Caetano Veloso: Fina Estampa
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Caetano Veloso: Fina estampa
10 sep 17
It is a beautiful album, perhaps one of the most successful in Caetano's now long career. It is a record that once again manages to say new things; the Bahia singer-songwriter returns now with a new album dedicated to new compositions, signed both by him (which is the case most of the time) and by others.
Carlo Collodi: Le avventure di Pinocchio Storia di un burattino
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Carlo Collodi: Le avventure di Pinocchio Storia di un burattino
10 oct 17
"Pinocchio can be experienced in any way one desires.

As a nightmare, a dream, a storm, a watermelon, life, death:
everything is fine because it is a myth."

- Roberto Benigni -
Carlo Emilio Gadda: Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana
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Carlo Emilio Gadda: Quer pasticciaccio brutto de Via Merulana
21 sep 17
Commissioner "Don Ciccio" Ingravallo, witty and proud from Molise, is tasked with investigating a jewelry theft from an elderly woman of Venetian origins, widow Menegazzi. Subsequently, the wife of a rather wealthy man, Mrs. Liliana Balducci, is murdered in the same building where the robbery took place. The scene of the theft and the murder is a gloomy palace on Via Merulana 219, known as the "Palazzo degli Ori", located not far from the Colosseum. Around it is a crowd of extras: the frail and wilted Countess Menegazzi, victim of the theft, the commendator Angeloni "prosciuttofilo", the brigadiers from the police station, the Carabinieri of Marino searching for clues in the countryside, and the blurred figures of the maids and nieces. The mystery ultimately leads to the discovery of a suspect: the last maid of Liliana, but without any confirmation of this. (cit. wiki)
Carlo Fruttero, Massimo Gramellin: La patria, bene o male
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Carlo Fruttero, Massimo Gramellin: La patria, bene o male
21 sep 17
- The Italian history is retraced in 150 dates to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy. The dates chosen by the two writers are not only the historical ones found in books but also dates of events with a personal tone: stories of the people that make up Italy (da recensionelibro.it).
- It does not seem appropriate to suggest to our readers that they should not expect the grand frescoes of Thucydides or Tacitus, of Machiavelli or Gibbon. Everyone knows we are not historians, and we wouldn't have the craft or genius to aspire to such heights. But from those masters, we have indeed learned a lesson: objective history, impartial history, definitively truthful history does not exist; it can only be an aspiration, a goal glimpsed but unreachable. Every page of this book is arbitrary and contestable. (CF & MG)
Carlo Fruttero, Massimo Gramellini: La Patria, bene o male Almanacco essenziale dell'Italia unita in 150 date
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Carlo Fruttero, Massimo Gramellini: La Patria, bene o male Almanacco essenziale dell'Italia unita in 150 date
19 oct 17
The duo Fruttero-Gramellini retraces, with a joint effort, the major events in Italian history, from the establishment of Parliament to the world wars, from the birth of democracy to the events of our days, involving the personalities—politicians, intellectuals, artists, and scientists—who have contributed to making our country great. The result is a mosaic that reveals a different history of Italy, often more interesting than the one that has been told, somewhat monotonously, in school. By recovering dates and events sometimes forgotten and featuring a brilliant and ironic writing style, the book offers the public a fascinating and entertaining read of the 150 years of our National Unity. (lafeltrinelli.it)
Carmen Covito: La bruttina stagionata
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Carmen Covito: La bruttina stagionata
10 oct 17
Marilina Labruna lives in a bleak Milan, populated by lonely women and sly individuals who take advantage of the needs for love.
Therefore, she, a forty-year-old who is not ugly but, worse, rather plain, must find a different way to triumph. (from ibs.it)
Carmen Covito: Del perché i porcospini attraversano la strada
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Carmen Covito: Del perché i porcospini attraversano la strada
10 oct 17
- A theater; Arianna Maj, a tomboy by vocation and a bodybuilder by provocation;

- Camacho, a great dancer and choreographer, an irresistible seducer even if he's a bit battered by time.

- Here are the characters of this story crafted by Carmen Covito, spanning from Madrid to Brescia to Reggio Emilia...

(cit. ibs.it)
Charles Baudelaire: Cinquanta poesie da
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Charles Baudelaire: Cinquanta poesie da "Les fleurs du mal"
27 sep 17
- The charm of the deep and subdued voice of his poetry clarified me to myself;

- The calm tone of his verses penetrates the reader's soul in an unmistakable way."

- This is how Sergio Solmi expressed himself in the preface... (Einaudi)
Charles Dickens: Il Circolo Pickwick
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Charles Dickens: Il Circolo Pickwick
21 sep 17
The most gripping and delightfully irresponsible novel by Dickens, inhabited by "comic characters" that "transcend the limits of bizarre eccentricity in human significance" (Mario Praz)
Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist
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Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist
21 sep 17
- It is one of Dickens' most famous and influential works. It was the first novel in the English language to feature a boy as the protagonist and one of the earliest examples of a social novel.
- Through a subversion of the coming-of-age story and a disenchanted dark humor, the novel examines the ills of Victorian England: poverty, child labor, urban crime, and the intrinsic hypocrisy of Victorian culture.
(cit. wiki)
Charles Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby
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Charles Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby
21 sep 17
The young Nicholas Nickleby finds himself, at a young age, having to support his family after the loss of his father. The family, having moved to the chaotic London of the 1800s, seeks support from the brother of the deceased, Ralph Nickleby, who will soon reveal his wicked and selfish nature. (from wiki)
Charles Dickens: La bottega dell'antiquario
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Charles Dickens: La bottega dell'antiquario
21 sep 17
- The story follows young Nell, who lives alone with her maternal grandfather (whose name is never revealed) in an old house in London called The Old Curiosity Shop because the ground floor houses a shop full of antiques. Following a series of gambling debts, the old man is forced to flee at night, accompanied by little orphan Nell.
- Throughout the narrative, the two encounter various and peculiar characters, such as puppeteers, a kind and gentle Master, the ambitious owner of a wax museum, where they work and temporarily stay, a dog trainer, and a worker who speaks with the fire of his forge... (cit. wiki)
Charles Dickens: David Copperfield
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Charles Dickens: David Copperfield
21 sep 17
- Original title: "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (which he never meant to publish on any account)"
- CD said: Of all my books, this is the one I love the most...
- Many elements of the novel are inspired by events in the author's own life; it can indeed be considered the fictionalized autobiography of the great 19th-century writer, the most autobiographical of all the books he wrote. (Anil Sehrawat)
- The work is also considered an industrial novel, because it reflects the misery experienced during the industrial revolution, when the exploitation of women and children in factories was widespread. (source: wiki)
Charles Dickens: Casa Desolata
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Charles Dickens: Casa Desolata
21 sep 17
- It is considered one of the author's most successful novels and contains one of the broadest, most complex, and intriguing groups of secondary characters in his entire literary corpus, intertwined with various subplots.
- The fierce attack launched by Dickens on the British judicial system is motivated in part by his personal experience as a law practitioner...
- Although Dickens' unsparing portrayal of the lawyers and judges of the Chancery is largely undeserved and exaggerated, the novel helped in the modernization of the entire judicial system, culminating in the legal reform of 1870. (source: wiki)
Charles Dickens: Il nostro comune amico
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Charles Dickens: Il nostro comune amico
21 sep 17
- Some pages of this manuscript were lost by Dickens in 1865 during a train accident on the train, which had departed from the port of Folkestone, taking the author to London, derailing at Staplehurst; several sheets were recovered by the writer. The incident is discussed in the book's postscript.

- Many literary critics consider "Our Mutual Friend" to be the most complex and desperate novel by the English author, in which his last "remnants" of illusions about the progressive function of the bourgeoisie have now disappeared, and even the proletariat emulates and tries to imitate it; they have compared it to a kaleidoscope, through which he analyzed social classes and people. (cit. wiki)
Charles Dickens: Canto di Natale
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Charles Dickens: Canto di Natale
21 sep 17
- It is the most important of the Christmas Books series.
- It combines the taste for gothic storytelling with a commitment to the fight against poverty and child exploitation, tackling illiteracy: issues seemingly exacerbated by the Poor Law, a convenient but ineffective and harmful stopgap devised by the upper classes.
- I wonder if perhaps you have read Dickens' Christmas Books - Robert Louis Stevenson asked a friend [...] - I have read two of them, and I cried like a child, making an impossible effort to stop. As God is my witness, they are so beautiful, and I feel so good after reading them. I want to go out and do good for someone [...] Oh, how wonderful it is that a man was able to write books like these, filling people's hearts with compassion! (cit. wiki)
Christophe Bataille: Il signore del tempo
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Christophe Bataille: Il signore del tempo
27 sep 17
- A small duchy by the ocean, at the end of the 1600s. It is a kingdom of stone and water, crumbling under the weight of time and melancholy. The Duke Gonzagues, lord of the city, is a man just out of disinterest, tolerant out of inertia. He has no character or passions; only the pleasures of the body, the young virgins, manage to distract him for a moment from the boredom that consumes him. His court thrives on envy and gossip, while in the lower city, the markets bubble with tempting and secret goods. Only the clocks seem alive in the halls of the palace.
- From Poland comes Arturo, and imperceptibly something changes. The new "lord of time" requests to reside in the palace, imposes his own rules, brings rigor and presence. His skill captivates the court, the lower city, and the duke. (Einaudi)
Claudio Lolli: Ho visto anche degli zingari felici
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Claudio Lolli: Ho visto anche degli zingari felici
7 sep 17
The title of the album (and the eponymous song) is a quotation from the film by Yugoslav director Aleksandar Petrovic, I Have Also Met Happy Gypsies, from 1967, and in the last part, there are four verses of three lines each, freely reworked from Peter Weiss's text "Cantata del fantoccio lusitano."
Claudio Lolli: Aspettando Godot
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Claudio Lolli: Aspettando Godot
7 sep 17
Paraphrasing Samuel Beckett, I cannot assert while listening to this first album by CL "Waiting for Godo..."
Confucio: Dialoghi
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Confucio: Dialoghi
10 oct 17
"The noble man values kindness, the mediocre man values comforts;
the noble man values impartiality, the mediocre man values favoritism;
the noble man understands the sense of justice, the mediocre man only knows profit."

Confucius (Latinized name from the Chinese K'ung-fu-tzu) was born around 550 B.C. and died in 479.
Consorzio Suonatori Indipendenti: Tabula rasa elettrificata
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Consorzio Suonatori Indipendenti: Tabula rasa elettrificata
7 sep 17
"An exceptional album...
In 'Bolormaa' there’s a wonderful phrase: Monito terrorista che la retta è per chi ha fretta...
T.R.E. is, to put it succinctly, an apocalyptic album.
However, we should be mindful of the use of this word in its original meaning of revelation.
An album that belongs to a Nordic existential conception, with an idea of revolution not in its destructive sense.
A revolutionary album."
(quoted from Franco Battiato)
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Looking Forward
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Looking Forward
8 sep 17
Tracks:

Faith in Me – 4:21
Looking Forward – 3:07
Stand and Be Counted – 4:52
Heartland – 4:28
Seen Enough – 5:14
Slowpoke – 4:31
Dream for Him – 5:03
No Tears Left – 5:06
Out of Control – 4:09
Someday Soon – 3:43
Queen of Them All – 4:23
Sanibel – 4:20
  • Stanlio
    8 sep 17
    Musicians:

    David Crosby — vocals; electric guitar on "Stand and Be Counted"; acoustic guitar on "Dream for Him"
    Stephen Stills — vocals; guitars on all tracks except "Slowpoke", "Out of Control" and "Sanibel"; Hammond B-3, bass guitar, percussion on "Faith in Me", maracas, double bass on "No Tears Left"; percussion on "Queen of Them All"
    Graham Nash — vocals; acoustic guitar on "Someday Soon"
    Neil Young — vocals; guitars on all tracks except "Sanibel"; harmonica on "Slowpoke"; tiple on "Out of Control"; celeste on "Queen of Them All"
    Additional personnel
    Joe Vitale — drums on all tracks except "Looking Forward", "Slowpoke" and "Out of Control"; Hammond B-3, batas on "Faith In Me"
    Michael Finnigan — Hammond B-3 on "Stand and Be Counted", "Heartland", "No Tears Left" and "Queen of Them All"
    Spooner Oldham — keyboards on "Slowpoke" and "Queen of Them All"; pump organ on "Looking Forward"
    Ben Keith — pedal steel guitar on "Looking Forward", "Slowpoke" and "Out of Control"; Dobro on "Looking Forward"
    Denny Sarokin, Snuffy Garrett — guitars on "Sanibel"
    James Raymond — piano on "Heartland" and "Dream for Him"
    Craig Doerge — keyboards on "Sanibel"
    Donald "Duck" Dunn — bass on "Looking Forward", "Stand and Be Counted", "Seen Enough", "Slowpoke", "Out of Control", "Someday Soon" and "Queen of Them All"
    Gerald Johnson — bass on "Heartland"
    James "Hutch" Hutchinson — bass on "Dream for Him"
    Bob Glaub — bass on "Sanibel"
    Jim Keltner — drums on "Looking Forward", "Slowpoke" and "Out of Control"
    Luis Conte — congas, jombe bass drum, batas on "Faith in Me"; percussion on "Dream for Him"
    Alex Acuña — timbales on "Faith in Me"
    Joe Lala — congas on "Faith in Me"
    Lenny Castro — percussion on "Heartland"
    Vince Charles — percussion on "Sanibel"
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Déjà vu
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Déjà vu
8 sep 17
It is one of the most popular albums of the seventies and has become an icon of that decade over time.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: American Dream
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: American Dream
8 sep 17
It is the first studio album in which the quartet is back together after eighteen years.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: 4 Way Street
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: 4 Way Street
8 sep 17
my first live
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: So Far
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: So Far
11 sep 17
First official collection of the beloved CSN&Y
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