Author: Claudia Stanghellini

Brescia, class of '95. After graduating in philosophy, I explored the world of capital a little, but I didn't want to take the full responsibility of debunking the myth of the unemployed humanist. In the eternal struggle between teaching and precariousness, I find the time to collaborate with various cultural magazines and curate the philosophical column "Humus" for EchoRaffiche. “The garden of paper birds” (PensieriParole, 2018) is my first collection of short stories.

Hildegard of Bingen, the Sibyl of the Rhine

Published on: March 22 2021 Last updated on: March 22 2021 Written by: Claudia Stanghellini Categorized into: Christianity, Philosophy, Middle Ages, Characters, History, History of Religions

In the decline of a world ruled by men only, an intrepid nun with a warrior spirit does not hesitate to lash the consciences of popes and emperors. Mystic and prophetess, theologian and philosopher, leader and preacher, composer and doctor, that of Hildegard of Bingen is one of the most original voices of the twelfth century. Let's retrace the adventurous events together.

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“Fairies”: an unexpected journey

Published on: January 2 2021 Last updated on: January 2 2021 Written by: Claudia Stanghellini Categorized into: Art, Interviews, Characters

We chatted with the artist Vincenzo Pennacchi, following his latest exhibition which was recently held at the Romberg Arte Contemporanea gallery.

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The Saga of Gunnar, the idiot of Keldugnúpur

Published on: 19 September 2020 Last updated on: 19 September 2020 Written by: Claudia Stanghellini Categorized into: Middle Ages, Mito, Guests Book, History

Let's retrace the last saga of the Icelanders, composed in the fifteenth century and recently returned to us by Hyperborea.

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“Beyond the Real”: for a Metaphysics of the Fantastic

Published on: April 23 2020 Last updated on: 10 September 2020 Written by: Claudia Stanghellini Categorized into: Italian Literature, Mito, Guests Book

That of narration was born as a profoundly sacred practice: in narrating and narrating the world, man continually recreates and re-establishes it, since “he no longer lives in a purely physical universe, but in a symbolic universe. Language, myth, art and religion are part of this universe, they are the threads that make up the symbolic fabric, the tangled web of human experience ". The narration thus soon becomes the key to the innumerable doors of the Mystery, to a relationship between different yet authentically real dimensions.

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