Beers & Books CLXXIX – Italo Svevo

È un modo comodo di vivere
quello di credersi grande
di una grandezza latente.
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    It is comfortable to live
in the belief that you are great,
though your greatness is latent.

Aron Hector Schmitz (19 December 1861 – 13 September 1928)

Saturday Night Music – Charles Camille Saint-Saëns

Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921)

Beers & Books CLXXVIII – V. S. Pritchett

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V. S. Pritchett (16 December 1900 – 20 March 1997)

Beers & Books CLXXVII – Chinghiz Aitmatov

Jamila

Chinghiz Aitmatov (12 December 1928 – 10 June 2008)

Saturday Night Music – Cecilia Bartoli

Cecilia Bartoli *4 June 1966

Antonio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741)

Il Giardino Armonico

Conductor and flautino soloist:
Giovanni Antonini *1965

Concert Master and Violin:
Enrico Onofri * 1 April 1967

Lute:
Luca Pianca *1958

Oboe:
Maria Grazia d'Alessio

Beers & Books CLXXVI – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008)

Beers & Books CLXXV – Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert (11 December 1821 – 8 May 1880)

Beers & Books CLXXIV – Peig Sayers

“If curses came from the heart,
it would be a sin.
But if it is from the lips they come,
and we use them only
to give force to our speech,
they are a great relief to the heart.”

 

Peig Sayers (1873 – 8 December 1958)

Beers & Books CLXXIII – Goffredo Parise

Non sopporto più le persone
che mi annoiano anche pochissimo,
che mi fanno perdere
anche un solo secondo di vita.
*
I can no longer stand people
who bore me even a little,
who make me lose even a second of my life.

Goffredo Parise (* 8. Dezember 1929 – 31. August 1986)

Saturday Night Music – Cecilia Bartoli

Cecilia Bartoli *4 June 1966

Antonio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741)

Beers & Books CLXXII – Ugo Riccarelli

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Ugo Riccarelli (3 December 1954 – 21 July 2013)

Beers & Books CLXXI – Yuri Herrera

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Yuri Herrera *1970

Beers & Books CLXX – Stefan Zweig

"All the pale horses of the apocalypse
have stormed through my life,
revolution, starvation,
devaluation of currency
and terror, epidemics, emigration;
I have seen the great ideologies
of the masses grow and spread out
before my eyes.
Fascism in Italy,
National Socialism in Germany,
Bolshevism in Russia,
and, above all,
that archpestilence, nationalism,
which poisoned our flourishing European culture."

Stefan Zweig (28 November 1881 – 23 February 1942)