Years 4 | n. 29 | 17 May 2012 | Director LUIGI CARICATO
Grow Culture > Interviews

The good side of agriculture has a social soul

We are all called to change. We cannot be prisoners of egoism forever. There are individuals able to create durable relationships, characterized by responsibility towards the common good, but also by gratuity and freedom in their own daily activites. A dialogue with Alfonso Pascale

02 May 2011 TN 5 Year 3

Nature can always get rid of itself, re-establishing its equilibrium

“Nature is a great heritage that we alas trample, as if it didn’t belong us”, the thriller and noir novel writer Gianni Farinetti says

07 June 2010 TN 6 Year 2

Agriculture matters to everybody, not just to farmers

The historian Rossano Pazzagli helps us to understand the issues of the rural world. Today, there is a worldwide need to rethink the models of development. A return to the past does not make sense, but it is not possible anymore to ignore the values of sustainability

03 May 2010 TN 5 Year 2

Attilio Scienza: viticulture and enology run together

From the know-how of the consultants and coworkers of wine producers, to the native vines and to the competition of the emerging countries. The farm zonation is better that the district one

05 April 2010 TN 4 Year 2

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

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