Storia, letteratura, attualità
In queste pagine potrai trovare le recensioni dei nuovi libri di Gingko Edizioni, i punti di vista dell’editore sulle tematiche dell’attualità e della Storia che ha segnato il nostro tempo.
Was Macau’s Saint Paul Cathedral drawn by Leonardo Da Vinci?
The Cathedral of Saint Paul (Sao Paulo) was built by the Jesuits at the very centre of Macau. The construction drawings were originally drawn by…
Brittany Maynard and Euthanasia – An Update
Contrary to our best hopes and prayers Brittany has decided to carry on with her suicide on Saturday, the 1st of November. We do…
The Dead Soldier’s Room
The parents of lieutenant Hubert Rochereau built a memorial for their son, fallen on 26 April 1918 in Belgium. They did it right in their house…
Clare Hollingworth – Hong Kong’s Living Treasure – Turns 103.
Clare Hollingworth can be seen at the FCC – The Foreign Correspondent Club in Lower Albert Road – where a table is always reserved for…
The Rise of the Inward-Bound Courses also known as Philosophical Retreats.
The popular magazine The Economist publishes the column ‘Schumpeter’ – named after the Austrian economist Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883 – 1950) – which is normally dedicated…
Italians did it 2 years earlier. October 1914, the Dardanelles.
4 October 1914. One hundred years ago the first operations in the Dardanelles begun with the participation of ships of the British Royal Navy supported…
Ave, Obama, morituri te salutant!
My friend Bruno sent me an email to express his admiration for the rhetoric qualities displayed yesterday – while speaking at the United Nations – by…
The Name of Arezzo taken by Swire
Apartments at the new de luxe skyscraper named after the Tuscan City of Arezzo are on sale in Hong Kong, at 33 Saymour Road in…
The Italian Flag is defiled in Hong Kong
A large department store in Hong Kong, ‘Citysuper’ has launched a promotion of wines and food entitled ‘Lombardy – Italy’. This is indeed a positive idea but…
A book which was popular during the Cold War years.
There is a book published in 1970 which was very popular when I was a boy but has since disappeared from the libraries. The author…
Scottish author Tobias Smollett forgotten in Livorno.
Tobias Smollett (1721 – 1771) was a Scottish physician, traveler, poet and journalist, considered one of the greatest novelists of the eighteen century. With the…
Leonardo Da Vinci according to Timothy Findley
Timothy Findley’s Pilgrim is a best selling novel – a sort of variation of the myth of the Count of St. Germain – which had…
Piero Guadagnini, a true gentleman.
Piero Guadagnini – was Consul General of Italy in Hong Kong and Macau from 1960-63. He is remembered as a true gentleman, a great diplomat…
First Foreign Correspondent in Hong Kong – Theodore Joset.
If the membership for the FCC (The Foreign Correspondent Club) were open to ghosts, the leading contender for membership number 0001 would have to be a Swiss…