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.
Pompey in Central London
Deep excavations under the headquarters of Bloomberg, in central London, has revealed an incredible amount of archeological finds. The slicing down through different layers of earth,…
Dann ist die Kacke am dampfen! (Then the shit will really hit the fan!)
If you ask to a group of politicians to design a horse you will end up with something like a camel. This is not true…
Why Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata Should Resign
Two Italian marines were arrested last year in Kerala, India, accused of manslaughter. Massimiliano La Torre and Salvatore Girone face an Indian law court for having…
Election Results at the Italian Chamber of Hong Kong
Donatella Oliboni has been re-elected to the board of the ICC and she is now the only woman there. Donatella is also president of the Hong…
‘La Bella Italia’ an article by Jason Wordie on The Sunday magazine of 10 March 2013. Italy never honored its debt with the Vatican after 1929.
Here is a letter that I posted to the South China Morning Post. Dear sir, Jason Wordie in his article ‘La Bella Hong Kong’ (Post…
A Literary Agency specialized in Asian Authors.
A new literary agency has been created in Hong Kong by Kelly Falconer, a dynamic editor and writer. Prior to founding the Asia Literary Agency, Kelly…
Did St. Catherine Loved a Spy? Her secret work for the temporal power of the pope and for John Hawkwood, English Condottiere.
June 1375, Piazza del Campo of Siena. A capital execution is going to take place in a few minutes under the wat chful eyes…
International Society for Neronian Studies Publishes my Essay on Cardano.
My essay on the publication of the Neronis Encomium by Girolamo Cardano has been reprinted by the only review dedicated to Neronian Studies. Here is…
1. Lincoln, a movie by Steven Spielberg. 2 An Italian Map in the movie. 3 Abolition of slavery by Doge Pietro IV for Christian slaves. 4 Garibaldi received an offer from Lincoln to become the Commander in Chief of the Northern Army. 5 An Interview with Arrigo Petacco.
This film is a historical drama, first released in 2012. It is also now shown in Hong Kong’s cinemas, after receiving two Oscars in Hollywood:…
Was Hitler ill?
A review of the book “Was Hitler ill? A final diagnosis” by Hans-Joachim Neumann and Herik Eberle. Polity Press, 2013. This is indeed a very…
FROM RUSSIA, WITH A BANG!
A meteor has fallen on the Urals yesterday, 1500 km from Moscow, injuring a thousand and two hundred people. Fortunately, that was just a small…
500th anniversary of the composition of The Prince by Niccolo’ Machiavelli.
Machiavelli wrote it in 1513, but then it was published only in 1532, posthumously. Machiavelli died in 1527. The first English edition was printed in…
Relics of the blessed Carlo Spinola sj donated to Macau
On the occasion of the exhibition ‘Journey to the End of the World – Michele Ruggieri and Jesuits in China’ (29 November 2012 – 3…
Did Churchill order Mussolini’s death, HK novelist asks Sunday, 12 September, 2010, 12:00am
Alex Lo Who killed Mussolini? That question has inspired one of the most enduring conspiracy theories to have emerged out of the second world war….