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L’ 8 February 1888 He was born in Alexandria d’ Egypt Giuseppe Ungaretti. Son of Italians; his father worked as a laborer at the Suez Canal and died when Joseph was just two years old for an illness contracted at work. The mother, that the poet recalls as a woman of extreme energy and great religiousness, He ran a bakery on the outskirts of Alexandria. He studied in College, in a Swiss school of Alexandria, It was formed with the readings of leopards, Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Nietzsche. He left Egypt in 1912. Housed in Florence, in Rome and then in Paris. He attended literary artistic environments, with a fondness for the avant-garde: Picasso, Fluffy, Palazzeschi, Boccioni, Modigliani and Marinetti. In 1915 He moved to Milan. In the same year, published on Lacerba his first poems. He served as a soldier in World War I. He fought on the karst and, as later recalled, took advantage of the licenses that were granted him to go where he wanted, He preferred often reach Paris. He remained in the French capital after the end of the war as a correspondent for Gazzetta del Popolo. He also worked at the Press Office of the Italian Embassy. In 1920 He married Jeanne Dupoix. In 1928 made an explicit profession of the Catholic faith, which influenced his poetry. In 1931 He published the work Joy which consisted in the placing of previous works by giving a consistency and a more organic form. Reworks the formal message of symbolists with the experience of war made of evil and death, This point of view were Morning and Soldiers. Meanwhile his poetic language underwent a maturation closest to tradition through Sentimento del Tempo, 1933. He joined the fascism to whom he dedicated the poetry People. Mussolini also wrote the preface to the collection The port buried. His fame spread. He was awarded a professorship of Italian language and literature at São Paulo, Brazil where he remained until 1942. In that Brazilian son died in parenthesis 1939. On his return he composed a rendition of Joy that would eventually be the prologue to the opera A man's life. The Association of writers in late war threatened his purge from the same for its adherence to fascism, but in the end were not taken. In 1947 went out the work The Pain hinged on the premature loss of her son and experience of war. In 1950 following the publication of the work The promised land, Subsequently the collection: A Cry and Landscapes. In 158 He left University teaching. In subsequent years appeared on television reading his verses. He died on 1 June 1970. Ungaretti's poetry has the distinction of being embodied by the word, pure, Creator, capable of revealing in its simplicity the mystery of life. Even the word wrap and the white space of the line supporting the essential meaning and totalizing of Ungaretti's Word. Remains the most famous Italian poet of the twentieth century and main exponent of Hermeticism.

Hector Parker

Paris, the 6 February 1932 He was born François Truffaut. Was a great Director, screenwriter, film producer, French actor and film critic. Marked with directors like Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette film known as the cultural current Nouvelle Vague. That movement was characterized by a’ inspiration from Italian neorealism conjugated to an undermining of the rules of shooting and editing of classic cinema. He had a’ troubled childhood, never knew her biological father and that caused him to have a controversial and uncompromising. Thunderstruck by the cinema, passed throughout adolescence watching movies. The French critic Andre Bazin saved him from several legal woes that he had hunted for the fault of his rebellious spirit by putting it in a circle of film criticism. The young François began to write for film journals and then, Thanks to Bazin, He switched to a magazine founded in those years the Cahiers du cinéma. With the knowledge that he had managed to make the Office Assistant Roberto Rossellini. He met Jean-Luc Godard with whom he wrote the movie Until the last breath, film icon of the Nouvelle Vague. He became interested in a novel by Henri-Pierre Roché, Jules et Jim. This title launched the great French actress Jeanne Monreau. It was the story of a love triangle between two friends and a girl, mixed with the taste for literature and languages. This film remains iconic still through the course on the ponte dei tre. The recurring theme of Truffaut's adolescence made of restlessness, unhappiness and loneliness. Lowered into a path of inner knowing characterized by the discovery of love. The success came with the film The 400 Shots, in 1959. The story of teenager Antoine Doinel that will star even in his later films Love at twenty (1962), Stolen kisses (1968), Don't think it is the… It's just a matter of horns (1970) and Love on the run (1979). His films include portraits of adolescents and women among the most poetic, pedagogical and sociological that cinema had known before. In Fahrenheit 451 in 1966 We find all the love for literature. In 1973 movie night effect brings with it all the love that Truffaut had for the cinema. The story sees the succession of constructing a movie, his difficulties of realization and loves that saw the birth on set. In 1977 He did not miss the experience of actor for Steven Spielberg in the movie Close encounters of the third kind where he played a French scientist. In the same year released The man who anklein women, the story of a man and his sentimental stories, obviously supported by personal experiences of Director. He was an indomitable seducer, He had many women, including his wife Madeleine Morgenstern who bore him three daughters. He died from a serious brain illness in Paris on 21 October 1984. His cinema got stroked two decades, where we also left a key work for movie lovers, the book Cinema according to Hitchcock, the best film book ever written about the long conversations between the two filmmakers on the career of the Director of the thrill.

Hector Parker

The 5 February 1936 comes out in cinemas around the world Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin. It is the most important film produced by actor: is the first to Chaplin's sound and is the first feature film "engaged". Prior 1936, the public was accustomed to see short shorts with simple gag in which, through the character the tramp, stood out the genius and skill of the actor. You do not require any kind of mental commitment to the Viewer, which had to sit and wait for the first comic scene to start laughing. But the world in the 1920s and 30s was changing and Chaplin followed the world: nationalism and the winds of war derived therefrom, changes in society and the mechanization of the industrial sector were phenomena that were not indifferent to the plaintiff. After getting everything a comic actor could conquer: money, honor, Fame, Gloria, Chaplin had arrived the moment to get back in the game, This time putting foot into society and representing it. The modern factory not attributed more to man a prominent place in the productive cycle, the workman had become a part of that assembly line that made it possible to increase the production cycles by reducing production time. The modern factory worker would have to make the same "mechanics" gestures for several hours during the day. What then remained of man, his thinking being and living, of his feelings, passions, of his intelligence? According To Chaplin, nothing. From this concept part the representation of modern society, of those modern themes that carried Yes a progress, a form of evolution of society: the first cars, the first electric company, the first seats, the radios, but all this was obtained at what price? He was the man to be decommissioned and in favor of the machine, which became the main element. Achieve Modern Times it cost a lot to Chaplin, especially the fact that entering feet together in this society, considered distorted, wouldn't be without its criticisms in retrospect. Create laughter with a gag comedienne not engaged or create laughter highlighting how a worker is treated are two things are very different. The evolution also went into the movie business and Chaplin tried to resist her, in fact he wanted Modern Times It was entirely sound. The actor still resists the use of dialogues, but introduces the sound: the music is synchronized with the movement of the characters and conduct of actions. Also had the issue of giving voice to Charlot, as audiences around the world wondered what voice would have had, How would speak. The voice would match the figure of "tramp". Chaplin dares, for a single ciak, the dance of Titina, the actor does sing Charlot, It was one of the most important bets won by Chaplin. All this could not be enough to complete a film engaged, different from previous ones, He also had to change, or rather mature the same character of Charlot: If the first "tramp" could generate sympathy and tenderness into the public, the new Charlot mature as a man: now it is the worker who every day trying to survive and which reflects the working class around the world. Will be with The Great Dictator the character of the tramp will reach full maturity. The final scene of Modern Times where Chaplin calls on the young girl, Paulette Godard his future wife, smile to life is one of the most beautiful films ever made. The smile of the tramp is a hymn to life, love and happiness.

You always criticize, speak ill of you and it will be difficult dating someone to whom you can be fine as you are. Then: live like you think. Do what your heart tells you: what you want. The life is a’Opera of theater that has initial trials. Then: sings, RIDI, Bale, love and live intensely every now of your life, before the curtain drops and l’Opera finish without applause. (CIT. Chaplin)

Roberto Rossetti

New Delhi. 30 January 1948. During the morning prayer three gunshots fired by Nathuram Godse killed Mahatma Gandhi. Godse was configured as a Hindu extremist who don't fine l’ opening dialectic of Gandhi to the Muslim world. Today the Mahatma Gandhi we find in icons that represented the greats of the past, occasionally appears on his face with one of his phrases real or fake on social networks. But who was Gandhi? Born on 2 October 1869 in Porbandar, graduated in law in London, Gandhi was a convinced vegetarian diet and experienced to minimize his power. He had a great respect for animals that he felt like the man as God's creatures. Although he practiced as a lawyer and then had a chance to enjoy some ease I try to live in simplicity from the point of view of clothing. This decision was taken even in respect of the poorest. His purity of mind was also the guiding spirit with which he led his life, feeling his soul more important than its body. He defended the Indian immigrants in South Africa for twenty years, in which fought against apartheid. His political action was unexpected and promoted a new form of protest. The basic idea of his attitude was the Satyagraha. That is the power of truth. It manifested itself through the disobedience of laws deemed unfair, Nonviolent boycott, the non-violent picketing, non-violent strike, the marches and hunger strikes. Disobedience of the law of which he accepted administrative consequences, sometimes manifested through physical violence. This peaceful protest but clear and solemn fascinated people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi. Was repeating that conflicts are resolved by relying on the things that unite us with opponents. In 1930 He promoted the salt protest, a March of more than 350 km estrazone salt in violation that led to the actual directives. The dissidents met at a violent crackdown on English. Were arrested 60.000 people and many were even beaten. A year later the viceroy and Gandhi signed an agreement that allowed the Indians collecting salt for domestic use and the release of dissidents of the salt protest. A year before his death the work of Gandhi saw the light of his political objective: the independence of’ India, was the 15 August 1947. All that remains is to affirm its greatness by recalling that it was one of the very few politicians determined and living according to their own values. His biography exudes an unmatched consistency, his public figure adhered perfectly with her private life. Wasn't big on public speaking, Although his phrases remain engraved in history his best weapon was his example.

Hector Parker

In the days when Greece was about to take an important step forward for itself and its recent history with the electoral vote, one of his greatest talents has made it an orphan. This is Demis Roussos singer and bassist of Aphrodite's Child. Born in Alexandria, Egypt 15 June 1946. Along with the great Vangelis Papathanassiou had constituted one of the most famous groups of late years 60. Initially they were a formation of four elements. In 1968 they tried their luck in London. They had started in three from Greece for London, because the fourth member had to stay at home in order to fulfil its obligations by lever. The band's sound was mixed Greek-Mediterranean atmospheres and progressive rock with a substratum of classical music. They had an audition at Mercury Records where he liked to producer Pierre Sberro. At that time another band had achieved success with music very close to that of Aprhodite's Child, This is Procol Harum. So for the launch of the Greek group was a classical melody of the seventeenth century the Canone in d major Abbot Johann Pachelbel. We worked on and the result was the song Rain and Tears, characterized by the sound of’ hammond organ of Vangelis and the falsetto voice of Demis Roussos. The single becoming a massive success, released near the French may 1968 It also became a formidable soundtrack. In 1970 the song was born It's five o'clock another big hit sung by Franco Battiato. A song that brings sound of the Greek musical tradition with classical influences. In those years is measured with a cover of a hit by Sergio Endrigo Away from the eyes, recently restored to prominence by Gianna Nannini. In 1971 the group disbanded. Demis Roussos continued to have success as a solo artist and Vangelis became a great composer of soundtracks for films such as Blade Runner and Chariots of fire. In 1971 Roussos won the Festivalbar with We shall dance. Other successes were Forever and Ever, My Friend the Wind, My Reason and Lovely Lady of Arcadia. His inimitable voice broke forever. We just have to remember him with a verse of his greatest achievement

“When you cry
in winter time
You can pretend
It's nothing but the rain”

“When you cry in winter
You can pretend
It's nothing’ nothing but rain”

Hector Parker