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THE SUBLIME AND THE HORRID
A politically incorrect blog about travel, diving, art, photography, food, books and other things that make life wonderful (or terrible). Cool photos, some bad videos and a lot of presumptuous and inconclusive words.
Books on sculpture. "Sculpture: Processes and Principles" by Rudolf Wittkower: When Art Takes Shape from Matter
A review of the book "Sculpture: processes and principles" by Rudolf Wittkower"
The Introvert Traveler
Jul 262 min read
Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds: a review of a philosophical journey into octopus thought and intelligence.
Review of Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith: a deep dive into octopus intelligence and non-human consciousness as an alternative evolutionary path.
The Introvert Traveler
Jun 83 min read
Carl Safina, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel. Elephants, Wolves, Dogs, Orcas, and Animal Cognition
Carl Safina, Beyond Words. An ethological and philosophical essay that dismantles anthropocentrism with scientific rigor and emotional intensity.
The Introvert Traveler
May 312 min read
Karen Blixen, Out of Africa: a review of a colonial elegy suspended between nostalgia and disillusionment.
Karen Blixen, Out of Africa. A poetic and disenchanted autobiography about the encounter between the West and Africa, written with grace and lyricism.
The Introvert Traveler
May 263 min read
"Modern Bodies" at the Accademia Gallery in Venice. Leonardo's Vitruvian Man and many other treasures
Review of the exhibition “Corpi Moderni” at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice — a show rich in graphic and bibliographic treasures, from Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man to Michelangelo’s Libyan Sibyl, including rare incunabula and sixteenth-century printed books.
The Introvert Traveler
May 247 min read
The Municipal Library and the Archiginnasio Palace (Bologna). History on the walls.
The Archiginnasio Palace in Bologna: from the historic seat of the world’s first university to a renowned center of learning and excellence as a library.
The Introvert Traveler
May 237 min read
Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals: an unlikely family under the Greek sun.
My Family and Other Animals. The Greek idyll of Gerald Durrell’s childhood and his eccentric family on the island of Corfu.
The Introvert Traveler
May 203 min read
"The Long Way" by Bernard Moitessier. A manifesto of poetic desertion in the heart of the ocean.
Recensione di La lunga rotta di Bernard Moitessier: un libro di culto sulla libertà, scritto in mare da chi ha scelto l’oceano per salvare la propria anima.
The Introvert Traveler
May 182 min read
Review of the book "Log from the sea of Cortez" by John Steinbeck
Review of the book "Log from the sea of Cortez" by John Steinbeck
The Introvert Traveler
May 153 min read
The Morgan Library & Museum in New York: A Temple of Bibliomania and Renaissance Art in Modernity
Visit with me the Morgan Library in New York — a sanctuary of books, art, and bibliophilic collecting.
The Introvert Traveler
Apr 286 min read
The State Hall of the Austrian National Library in Vienna: a Baroque Temple of Knowledge
The Grand Hall of the Austrian National Library: A Baroque Monument to the Book and to Knowledge
The Introvert Traveler
Apr 103 min read
Travel books: Charles Darwin, A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World - The Voyage of the Beagle
A review of Charles Darwin's book "A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World"
The Introvert Traveler
Jul 28, 20212 min read
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