06/06/14 | Guests Book
Martin Gilbert: Winston Churchill
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill has always fascinated me and the desire to know him better led me to read ...
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27/05/14 | Guests Book
"Soldiers of Peace"
A book published by the "Guida" publishing house where the Cilento journalist reports stories of love and hope ...
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22/05/14 | Guests Book
Xenophon: Ciropedia, or "On the education of Ciro"
In one of his many treaties he speaks to us about the education and business of Cyrus, son of Cambyses (king of ...
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18/05/14 | Guests Book
E. Cantarano and L. Carini: History of Medicine and Assistance for Health Professions
Sometimes these essays are too heavy to read but not in this case. The authors, Enzo Cantarano and Luisa Carini, ...
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14/05/14 | Guests Book
Ernest Hemingway: For those who ring the bell
Born in the 1899 near Chicago. In the 1918 he volunteered in the ambulance services for the American Red ...
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04/05/14 | Guests Book
Stefan Zweig: Magellan
From him and his trip to the Indies passing from the West we know thanks to a Vicentine, Antonio Pigafetta, a knight of ...
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24/04/14 | Guests Book
Stefan Zweig: Amerigo, the story of a historical error
In this way Stefan Zweig closes his essay on the story of the attribution of the name "America" to the new continent ...
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09/04/14 | Guests Book
Aldous Huxley: The New World and Back to the New World
Aldous Huxley was born in 1894 in Godalming, Surrey in England and died in Los Angeles in the 1963. The new world is ...
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03/04/14 | Guests Book
Francois Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruele
He knows Greek and Latin and in 1525, when the Sorbonne forbids the study of Greek to prevent them from being ...
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25/03/14 | Guests Book
Claudio Rendina: The popes, history and secrets
I read the first volume of the history of the papacy, from St. Peter's (30-67 AD) to Gregory IX (1227-1241 AD) and I must say ...
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13/03/14 | Guests Book
Lao Petrilli - Vincenzo Sinapi: UFOs, Italian dossiers
The work - underlines the author - was carried out according to journalistic fees and without looking for imaginative conclusions ....
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06/03/14 | Guests Book
Norbert Wiener: Introduction to cybernetics
In fact, Turing referred to him as one of the main proponents of information science and ...
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02/03/14 | Guests Book
Giuseppe Flavio: Jewish Antiquities
A historian of our day perhaps would not approve of this behavior but, one could say, the end justifies the ...
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18/02/14 | Guests Book
Norberto Bobbio: Democracy and Secret
The 23 November 1980 Norberto Bobbio published an article in the press in which he explained what democracy was, ...
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13/02/14 | Guests Book
Norberto Bobbio: Elements of politics
One of the greatest scholars of the field in Italy was Norberto Bobbio, professor of Philosophy of Law and of ...
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09/02/14 | Guests Book
Andrew Hodges: Alan Turing, story of an enigma
Brilliant how erratic, Turing started from mathematics to get to studies on the development of the embryo, without ...
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07/02/14 | Guests Book
Publio Flavio Vegezio: The art of the Roman war
The "manual" wants to provide the reader, the emperor and his generals in particular, the tactical and strategic schemes ...
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03/02/14 | Guests Book
Eugen Drewermann: Giordano Bruno
So, a little 'deceived by the title, I informed the author to understand how the novel could be ...
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03/02/14 | Guests Book
James George Frazer: The golden branch
I have read the reduced version to a single volume, published by Newton Compton in the 2009 (third edition), but the first ...
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01/02/14 | Guests Book
Jared Diamond: Weapons, steel and diseases
Like any good self-respecting omnivorous reader, I have just come across (thanks to my friend Giuseppe!) In a book of ...
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