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10 hours ago · The city centres around the huge Catholic shrine, which was founded in the 1870s by an energetic lawyer called Bartolo Longo, on a plot of land next to the ancient Roman amphitheatre. During his lifetime, Longo built a “new Pompeii” which attracted pilgrims and visitors from all over Italy and beyond. As well as the magnificent church with ...
1 hour ago · Alberto Longo, a co-founder and chief championship officer of Formula E, is a Spaniard with a beard and a deeply lined face. For a media briefing the day before the Portland race, his hairy chest ...
2 hours ago · Longo’s own speech contrasted the new Christian Pompeii with the ancient Greco-Roman city next door. It pointed to the bloody slaughter that took place in its amphitheatre, where brutal ...
10 hours ago · Longo's own speech contrasted the new Christian Pompeii with the neighboring ancient Greco-Roman city. It pointed to the bloody massacres that took place in the amphitheaters of ancient cities, where brutal gladiator fights and animal hunting were popular pastimes.
10 hours ago · Shinya Tanaka’s Cannibals(translated by Kalau Almony, review copy courtesy of Honford Star), joint-winner of the Akutagawa Prize in the second half of 2011, is an atmospheric work set over the northern summer of 1989, centred upon the seventeen-year-old Toma Shinogaki. Living with his father and his father’s partner, Kotoko-san, in a house ...
10 hours ago · The Swiss duo Miriam Terragni (flute) and Catherine Sarasin (piano), play arrangements of violin sonatas by Amy Beach (1867-1944) and Amanda Maier-Röntgen (1853-1894). This is no walk in the park for either performer, as they are technically as well as creatively demanding. The album opens with the four-movement Violin Sonata by Amy Beach ...
10 hours ago · L’ultimo libro della giornalista e scrittrice svedese Ia Genberg, baciato in patria da uno straordinario successo e insignito del premio August e del premio Aftonbladet, non ha un tocco minimalista, non si concentra sulle piccole cose né è angustiato in limiti imposti di tempo e di spazio, ma si.