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S’intitola “VIA MAESTRA” la nuova antologia di autori brindisini, curata da Clara Nubile e Michele Bombacigno, edita dalla Hobos Edizioni di Brindisi e stampata presso la Italgrafica di Oria.

La “VIA MAESTRA”, scrivono Clara Nubile e Michele Bombacigno nella introduzione dell’antologia, perché “In un gioco di ombraluce e intime penombre, in una dimensione temporale di confine, dove i futuri anteriori mutano nei nostri futuri possibili, e i passati addomesticati sono oasi in uno sterminato deserto che chiamiamo presente. Ombra di quel che fu, Brindisi: città di “zucchero azzurro” e “viola d’oblio” nelle visioni bodiniane, oggi s’incarna in una strada di carta, un insieme di ricordi, cemento e mani che accompagnano ogni nostra parola, scandita dall’amore e dalla memoria. Via Maestra – quella che oggi si chiama “corso” – era l’antica via che partiva da porta Napoli (ora detta porta Mesagne) e si dipanava fino al mare, spaccando in due la città lungo un percorso attualmente contrassegnato da tre diversi toponimi, uno in prosecuzione dell’altro: Read the rest of this entry »

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Breadth, centrality, with blitheness and repose, are the marks of Hellenic culture. Is such culture a lost art? The local, accidental colouring of its own age has passed from it; and the greatness that is dead looks greater when every link with what is slight and vulgar has been severed. We can only see it at all in the reflected, refined light which a great education creates for us. Can we bring down that ideal into the gaudy, perplexed light of modern life?

Certainly, for us of the modern world, with its conflicting claims, its entangled interests, distracted by so many sorrows, with many preoccupations, so bewildering an experience, the problem of unity with ourselves, in blitheness and repose, is far harder than it was for the Greek within the simple terms of antique life. Yet, not less than ever, the intellect demands completeness, centrality.
Walter Horatio Pater, The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, ET EGO IN ARCADIA FUI

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Ancient essay.

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The soul that companies with Virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught; sweet, rich, and generous of its store; that injures not, neither destroys.
Epictetus, THE GOLDEN SAYINGS OF EPICTETUS, Appendix A, II

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SOCRATES: Eh! What can be feared when one is doing one’s duty? I know the rage of my enemies. I know all their slanders; but when one only tries to do good to men and when one does not offend heaven, one can fear nothing, neither during life, nor after death.
Voltaire, Socrates, ACT II

Ancient essay.

The soul that companies with Virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught; sweet, rich, and generous of its store; that injures not, neither destroys.
Epictetus, THE GOLDEN SAYINGS OF EPICTETUS, Appendix A, II

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Ancient essay.

The soul that companies with Virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught; sweet, rich, and generous of its store; that injures not, neither destroys.
Epictetus, THE GOLDEN SAYINGS OF EPICTETUS, Appendix A, II