Firefly, firefly, come to me,I’ll give you the king’s bread,the king’s and queen’s bread,firefly, firefly, come closer! Thus sang the children of the last century on warm early summer nights, when the darkness, as if by magic, was illuminated by tiny flashes—an orchestra of lights over the wheat fields, near […]
Maria Beatrice Lupi
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In a fast-paced world, exploring places, big cities, and one’s own country has been reduced to organized trips, to cities overwhelmed by overtourism, to guided tours that take visitors to the most famous landmarks, whose images decorate the walls of tour operators or fill the glossy pages of specialized magazines. […]
In winter, in the woods and mist-shrouded countryside, on the trunks and branches of now-bare deciduous trees, one sometimes sees, alas, increasingly rarely, bushy balls—tangles of greenish branches and leaves: these are the Mistletoe plants! Mistletoe (Viscum album L. 1753) belongs to the Santalaceae family. It is a bushy evergreen […]
We live in an era of climate change, floods, storms, hurricanes, devastating landslides, melting glaciers, environmental disasters, plastics everywhere, uncontrolled emissions, rampant deforestation, biodiversity loss, and habitat destruction.Every time a catastrophic event occurs, we fill our mouths with words that then remain empty promises.Terms like environmentalism, nature conservation, and the […]
“O friend, o gracious moon, once more returns to mindThe turning of the year, when over this wooded knoll,I came, full of pain, admiring thee:And there you hung over that woodAnd then, as now, everything bathed in light.”To the moon – Giacomo Leopardi (translation by Michael Curtotti) Since childhood, the […]