Brigitte Bardot, conosciuta anche come B.B. (28 settembre 1934 – 28 dicembre 2025), è stata una delle figure più emblematiche del cinema francese del Novecento.Marguerite Duras la definì “l’impossibile sogno dell’uomo sposato”, cogliendo la forza simbolica di un’icona che ha segnato immaginario e costume. Ritiratasi dalle scene nel 1973, Bardot ha scelto di dedicarsi interamente… Read More Brigitte Bardot
This is a time when I’ve been writing about the colour blue, so I’d like to share this song with you, hoping, of course, that your Christmas was not blue 💙 🎶 Blue Christmas🎶 I’ll have a Blue Christmas without youI’ll be so blue thinking about youDecorations of red on a green Christmas treeWon’t be… Read More When Christmas Is Touched by Blue
✨✨✨🄰 🅄 🄶 🅄 🅁 🄸 🄽 🄰 🅃 🄰 🄻 🄸 🅉 🄸✨✨✨ Il gioco linguistico di questa settimana, su suggerimento Eletta Senso (qui), è un acrostico sulle parole AUGURI NATALIZI Ecco il mio testo: A Auguriamoci che l’interaU Umanità, in questi giorni di festa,G Giorni di luce e silenzio, sappiaU Unirsi nel segno… Read More Acrostico 🔤
➡️ Blue (I) I thank J. Re Crivello for hosting this post of mine on Masticadores –LatinosUSA —English edition: In Hinduism a lot of gods are depicted with blue-coloured skin, particularly those associated with Vishnu, the preserver of the world and thus connected to water. Shiva, the destroyer, is also depicted in light blue tones… Read More Blue (II)
I thank J. Re Crivello for hosting this post of mine on Masticadores –LatinosUSA —English edition: “According to the Oxford English Dictionary, English speakers have used the term “blue” to refer to sad or melancholy emotions since the 15th century. This may derive from a custom among many old deep water sailing ships. If the ship lost… Read More Blue (I)
La proposta di questa settimana è un haiku sul NATALE (vedi Eletta Senso qui) Ecco il mio testo: Nasce il Bimbo –Sulla terra feritaspiri la pace Se volete giocare con noi, le vostre creazioni saranno riportate qui sotto⤵️ Silvano Bottaro Luce alla finestra Il tempo si fa dono Natale attende crossingways magi cercanostella nel cielo… Read More Haiku (◔▾◔)
In the final years of his life, Heinrich Heine lived confined to a bed, which he himself, with bitter irony, called the Matratzengruft, the “mattress grave.” From that narrow space, marked by pain and paralysis, he nonetheless continued to write, reflect, and question the meaning of faith, suffering, and poetry. Living in exile in Paris,… Read More The “Mattress Grave”: The Final Years of Heinrich Heine
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine, one of the most important German poets of the 19th century, was born on13 December 1797 (*). He was also a journalist, essayist, and literary critic. Heine is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry: many of his poems were set to music as Lieder (art songs) by composers… Read More Heine – A Poet Who Defied Censorship
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, dramatist, and outspoken critic of Soviet totalitarianism. He is best known for works that exposed the realities of the Soviet penal system and for his role as a leading dissident voice in the 20th century. In July 1945 Solzhenitsyn… Read More Honouring Solzhenitsyn on His Birthday
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