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.
Giuliano Bertuccioli. Diplomat and Orientalist.
Giuliano Bertuccioli was a fine Orientalist and one of the most renowned Italian sinologists. He was born in Rome on 26 January 1923. Received a degree…
Obituary – not for Robin Williams – but for Simon Leys.
CNN, BBC, all newspapers around the world are full of stories about the suicide of Robin Williams. I am sorry for his death but only…
Luigi Bolla. Italian representative in Hong Kong and Macau 1963-69
Luigi Bolla was born in Càrcare, Savona, in 1910. He received a degree in Law in 1932 and Political Sciences in 1934. He then…
Guido Relli. Former consul of Italy In Hong Kong and Macau
Guido Relli has been Consul General of Italy in Hong Kong and Macau…
Two little known episodes of WW1 in Australia
In December 1917 Cavaliere Emilio Eles – Consul for Italy in Australasia since 1913 – based in Melbourne, issued the following order: All Italian conscripts…
Una via di Turbigo dedicata a Ezio Maria Gray.
L’Italia era e resta quella descritta da Guareschi nel suo ciclo dedicato a Don Camillo e Peppone, non tutti hanno letto i suoi libri…
Winston Smith of 1984 versus Edward Snowden
One real, Edward Snowden, and the other imaginary: Winston Smith, the protagonist of Orwell’s book, Nineteen Eighty-Four. But similarities are indeed striking, as my friend…
A Gothic Story from Paolo Predonzan.
When Matthew told her that he had found an ancient burial, while exploring the unknown path, Lili darkened. Immediately he felt so stupid for not…
MH17 on the 17 of July, and they still insist with it.
I stop flying Malaysian Airlines more than 10 years ago after an appalling flight me and my wife took from Hong Kong to Australia. We…
Tracing D.H. Lawrence’s Ink Trail in Sardinia.
From the International New York Times – Saturday-Sunday July 12-13, 2014. By Robert Cohen “I don’t care for islands,” D. H. Lawrence once wrote, an…
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This is England’s favourite poem. ‘A good bad poem’ Orwell called it. Two of its most resonant verses, ‘If you can meet with triumph and disaster…
KGB stashed weapons in Rome in 3 secret locations.
A new volume containing a small part of the still secret Mitrokhin Papers will be soon printed. The book also reveals that Soviet agents…
Mario Vattani launches a work of historical fiction in Japan – River of Fire and Perfumes
Former diplomat Mario Vattani publishes his first novel in Japanese. The title will be “River of Fire and Perfumes”. This is a work of…
Alessandro De Pedys appointed Italian Ambassador to Poland.
Alessandro de Pedys – arguably the best Italian Consul in Hong Kong and Macau, ever – has been appointed Ambassador of Italy for…