Beers & Books CLXXXI – Dominique Manotti

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Dominique Manotti *23 December 1942

Summer

Mari Samuelsen *21 December 1984

Beers & Books CLXXX – Tomás O'Crohan

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Tomás Ó Criomhthain ( 21 December 1856 – 7 March 1937)

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.
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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)