Cascina Bellaria is a place of culture, one of the few authentic places devoted to Platonism, where the culture of the body and that of the mind are not separated, but holistically integrated with one another.
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Cascina Bellaria is a place of culture, one of the few authentic places devoted to Platonism, where the culture of the body and that of the mind are not separated, but holistically integrated with one another.
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Cascina Bellaria is a place of culture, one of the few authentic places devoted to Platonism, where the culture of the body and that of the mind are not separated, but holistically integrated with one another.
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Cascina Bellaria is a place of culture, one of the few authentic places devoted to Platonism, where the culture of the body and that of the mind are not separated, but holistically integrated with one another.
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Cascina Bellaria is a place of culture, one of the few authentic places devoted to Platonism, where the culture of the body and that of the mind are not separated, but holistically integrated with one another.
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Since I rarely step outside our "Cascina Bellaria" bubble, some things keep surprising me. I find myself in Baggio, a district of Milan where, as I imagine in many other districts of many other cities, there are real problems, ranging from decay to a creeping night-time violence to coexistence between different cultures and ethnic groups, and plenty of others that are not the subject of this post.
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NEWHVN, formerly known as A Burial at Sea, manage to evoke the atmosphere of a gloomy day suddenly lit up by the rays of a cheerful sun.
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Some hate it, some will surely appreciate it. To me it's almost endearing.
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There is an undeniable cultural hegemony of the left, the "good ones", which pushes the indifferent to regard everything that does not conform as illegitimate and therefore deserving to be suppressed.
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The latest sign that the “righties” do exactly what the “lefties” do comes from the newest brainwave: the forthcoming school curricula will scale back “The Betrothed” (I Promessi Sposi) and Dante because they are considered too “difficult”.
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This week we remember the figure of Marcus Aurelius, born on 20 April and died on 26 April at the age of 59.
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Today marks the anniversary of the death of Lord Byron, a central figure of Romanticism and the archetype of the damned poet, suspended between Beauty, Passion and Heroism.
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