It seems so, and specifically, facilitating the divorce between capitalism and democracy celebrated by contemporary myths of American freedom and prosperity. A marriage that is extinguished after a century and a half of happy cohabitation.
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In Tuscany, wine is a tradition, a culture, a way of living and marking time and the seasons; but for some all this is declined into a real passion. This is the case of Alberto Margheriti, who has been able to wisely transfuse his great love into the “Vini di Toscana” brand, a chain of elegant and well-stocked wine bars that aim to tell and enhance the most authentic soul of our region.
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The event spans three days during the last weekend of September; this year it will take place from the 26th to the 28th. It begins on Friday with a highly evocative procession: approximately 1,200 participants known as tavernieri depart from each individual gate of the city
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Equipped with every comfort, the agriturismo is a historic estate between the Val d’Orcia and Mount Amiata, featuring eight rooms, two suites, and a restaurant.
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We will save ourselves by playing with time: calibrating the flutter of wings towards victory, climbing, conquest.
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A language that has lost its function – which should be, on the contrary, a conscious and authentic projection of one’s self, the will to do, undertake and evolve in a ‘virile’ and constructive way.
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This is why several minor sovereignisms have been born in Europe – and also Trump’s ‘major’ sovereignism in the States. A new vision of the world that manifests itself with multiple faces but which, in reality, operates in a very simple and tangible way: let’s take for example the ‘hot’ topic of immigration: one thing is the acceptance of diversity – the foundation of all civil coexistence – another thing is the compulsive magnification, to the bitter end, of diversity and the rights of minorities. People are fed up with these demonic paradoxes.
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God, nature, fate, have provided us with the sense of taste so that we can maintain our bodies and brain functions. Eating is certainly a fundamental pleasure but remember, it is good that food is ‘deserved’ every day, if only out of a sense of universal justice that ‘giving allows us to receive’ – and every effort brings a reward. This principle takes our lives to a higher plane, where it is our will, where it is the spirit that governs our actions – and it promotes a community cooperation, today one could say empathetic, with one’s family and clan context (what a retrograde term!).
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Far from being a pedantic history lesson, this digression on the three Florentine republics that succeeded one another from 1494 (the year of the expulsion of the Medici who, fearful, conniving and rumoured in cahoots with the French of Charles VIII, were overthrown by spontaneous citizen uprisings) intends to bring to light that voluntary, popular and democratic spirit that took place after decades of Medici domination, ignited by the vehement preaching of Friar Girolamo Savonarola.
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By Simone Bandini “It’s better to have less thunder in your mouth and more lightning in your hand.” (Apache) “It is not how you are born, but how you die, that reveals to which people you belong.” (Black Elk, Chief of the Sioux Tribe) What reason would there be to […]
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Who knows if all this enchantment of living will stop at the dreamy, exclusive aperitif. Or something else will probably happen: perhaps a family dinner and a certain circular sense of things. Then a restoring sleep in the lost cavities of a flattened soul, a repaired reset that will admirably grant second possibilities.
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