Years 2 | n. 14 | 12 March 2010 | Director LUIGI CARICATO
Grow Culture > Interviews

Daniela Marcheschi: “I have a living relationship with the rural world”

The Italian writer is a member of a countryside bourgeoisie family of Tuscany. She proudly lives in Lucca, a city immersed in the countryside

01 March 2010 TN 3 Year 2

Return to nature? A temporary utopia

The novelist Ferruccio Parazzoli reckons that the introduction of TV meant the end of the rural world. Nowadays, even the country language has changed. The success of agro-tourism? Only a transitory phenomenon

01 February 2010 TN 2 Year 2

Philippe Daverio, back to the origin

“The fact that we eat differently from the 19th century doesn’t mean that we have to become hamburger eaters”. This is a travel with the well-known intellectual and art historian through the rural world

04 January 2010 TN 1 Year 2

Ferdinando Camon: “The rural culture is dead”

An interview to the narrator which dedicated to the rural world most of his novels. Charles Péguy, French poet, defined the end of the rural culture as the most important fact of the world history after Jesus Christ

07 December 2009 TN 11 Year 1

Bianca Garavelli: too many youngsters abandoning the country

According to the famous writer, a scholar of Dante Alighieri and author of intense novels, the mirage of an easier life pushes youth away from rural life

02 November 2009 TN 10 Year 1

Antonio Riccardi: “Our roots are still part of us”

The progressive abandon of the country – says the poet – has been for many the abandon of a lifestyle, seen as outdated with respect to modernity, as immobile, perpetual and of great fatigue

05 October 2009 TN 9 Year 1

Giacomo Tachis: "The good wine is open minded”

The creator of many celebrated Tignanello e Sassicaia tells us about the price of wines, the addition of sugar, the choice of steel, wood or concrete, the use of additives and more

05 October 2009 TN 9 Year 1

The pleasure of invisible. To heal from the evil of the world

The hope, the crisis of identity, the transmigration of people, the deterioration of the communication media and of society. Monsignor Ersilio Tonini, a master of our times. “We are condemned to follow ethics”

07 September 2009 TN 8 Year 1

Mario Rigoni Stern: "Everything goes so fast that there is no time to meditate anymore”

The famous author of the novel “Il sergente nella neve”(The sergeant in the snow) reckons that our contemporary world is made for consuming and that an immoderate consumption exhausts nature, too

06 July 2009 TN 6 Year 1

Alberto Bevilacqua: “Farmers are the heroic soul of a people”

The rurality – according to the author of the famous novel “La Califfa” (The Caliph’s wife) – is the secret garden where people seek refuge to find defense from chaos

01 June 2009 TN 5 Year 1

Laura Bosio: “What about the countryside people? Rough and silent, but they laugh”

She wrote a novel set in rice fields. “From the rural world, the writer says, I learnt the idea of weariness and determination. And the sense of freedom, too”

04 May 2009 TN 4 Year 1

Sexually active and seductive at any cost!

Interview with the sexologist Jole Baldaro Verde. There are too many expectancies, it is necessary to be careful. Today male teenagers are in crisis because they would like a more aggressive penis, not a small one!

06 April 2009 TN 3 Year 1

Sossio Giametta: agriculture remains the true oil of humanity

The considerations of one of the main expert of Friedrich Nietzsche philosophy: “Men want to travel without baggage. They prefer lightheartedness and oblivion”

02 March 2009 TN 2 Year 1

The look of Giampiero Neri on the Nature

By the masterly use of metaphors, the author of Teatro Naturale lets him down in the secret mechanisms that regulate the behaviors and the vicissitudes of people and societies

02 February 2009 TN 1 Year 1