The essay I have just finished reading is a university text written by two professors, for university students.

Hemingway is one of the greatest American writers of the '900, also known for the films taken from his books, including the unforgettable the old Man and the Sea that I read many years ago.

Stefan Zweig
Ed. Fabbri
pp. 260

It is the 1400, the century of preparation for big business, the century of Henry the Navigator, of Christopher Columbus, of Fernão de Magalhães born Portuguese, who became Spanish with the name of Fernando de Magallanes, who went down in history simply as Magellan.

"Those who expect justice from history require more than what they want to give: they often attribute business and immortality to the simple and mediocre man and leave the best, the bravest and the wisest in darkness."

No doubt I owe the initial interest in Huxley's book to the cover with the image distorted by a crystal ball, but immediately after the curiosity, the reading of the text took the upper hand ...

Francois Rabelais
Ed. Einaudi
pp. 890

Francois Rabelais was born in France, in Chinon, around the 1494 and died in the 1553 in Paris. Around the 1520 he becomes a monk.

Claudio Rendina
Ed. Newton & Compton 
pp. 466 (vol. I)

If you are looking for news on Claudio Rendina you can find out that he is an Italian writer, poet and journalist, born in 1938, which deals mainly with Rome, its history and that of its top representatives, the popes.

Lao Petrilli - Vincenzo Sinapi
Ed. Mursia
pp. 338

The journalist Vincenzo Sinapi has recently published together with his colleague Lao Petrilli a book that collects and reports many of the hundreds of reports of UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) that the Aeronautica Militare has cataloged and filed in dossier then "declassified", ie not more secrets or reserved.

Norbert Wiener
Ed. Bollati Boringhieri
pp. 229

I have heard about Norbert Wiener (1894 - 1964) several times in the past but a few months ago I was intrigued by a quote in the biography of Alan Turing.

Josephus
Ed. UTET
pp. 1300

Historical research is sometimes favored by curiosity. In practice, curiosity is sometimes the spring that drives the reader to a history book, so the ancient writers garnered their historical works with curiosities of all kinds to attract readers.

Norberto Bobbio
Ed. EINAUDI
pp. 80

What would Norberto Bobbio say about the current situation in Italy?
It would ask, perhaps, where to start to try to make sense of what is happening.

Norberto Bobbio
Ed.Einaudi
pp. 340

Policy...
A term full of meaning, also in consideration of the times that run!

But what does "politics" mean?

Andrew Hodges
Ed. Bollati Boringhieri
pagg.770

Alan Turing, the story of an enigma, is the book by Andrew Hodges who accompanied me for two weeks of intense reading. When it comes to heat, I would like to say that Turing was a very special character and that the book was able to convey his peculiar characteristics well.

Publio Flavio Vegezio
Ed.BUR
pagg.372

The author, Vegezio, was a high imperial official of the court of Theodosius the Great. He wrote this work, divided into four books, in the fourth century after Christ. The period in which Vegezio lives is of profound crisis of the Roman military power, a period in which the imperial armies passed by defeat in defeat under the impact of the barbarian populations.

James George Frazer
Ed. Newton Compton
pp. 822

James George Frazer (1854-1941), was a Scottish anthropologist and scholar.

His main work, in 13 volumes, from the original title "The Golden Bough" or "The golden branch", published between the 1911 and 1936, is a large collection of beliefs and popular traditions on the magic and religion of peoples of all the world.

Jared Diamond
Ed. Einaudi
pp. 404

Like any good self-respecting omnivorous reader, I have just come across (thanks to my friend Giuseppe!) In a book of those that you can not only taste but whose content, page after page, pushes you to devour with voracity.

Giuseppe Gagliano
Ed. Fire
pp. 400

The monumental new essay by Prof. Giuseppe Gagliano, president of the Carlo de Cristoforis Center, offers an interesting overview of French thinking on geo-economics and on economic war and intelligence.

George Orwell
Ed. Oscar Mondadori
pp. 336

It has been a long time since the cover intrigued me, that of Orwell's book, 1984, seen so many times in bookshelves.

So, finally, I bought it.

George Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair, wrote this novel in the 1948 and was immediately a success.

Michela Fontana
Ed. Oscar Storia Mondadori
pp. 362

I have just finished reading a wonderful essay, the biography of the Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552 - 1610), published by Mondadori, masterfully written by the scientific journalist Michela Fontana, which immediately compliments me.