Clik here to view.
The summer of my contentment
Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York; And all the clouds that low’r’d upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. (William Shakespeare -Richard The...
View ArticlePresentation of my book on Leonardo Da Vinci at HK Polytechnic University,...
On the 3rd of June. At the presence of Consul General of Italy, Antonello De Riu and the Italian Cultural Institute, Matteo Fazzi on the day after Italy’s National Day. The Q&A session has been...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Three poems by Alessandro Fo
To the Son (not distant from Ostia) In the house where I used to live, now, shaking the tablecloth on the balcony for the sake of sparrows, the air must be a chorus of children coming out of school....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Can We Live Forever?
Years back I published a science-fiction novel with Mursia, in Italy. The title was ‘Black Hole’ One of the characters was the director of CERN in Geneva, an Italian professor. He was a bad character...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Follow Up of ‘Search for Timothy Mo’ – The second article by Anne Teoh for...
Anne Teoh In May I wrote an article voicing the concern of many readers, critics and lecturers intimate with the works of Timothy Mo about his disappearance. It is well over a month now and this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An Important Post For Our Davide De Rosa
Yesterday, the 16th of July, 2015, Davide De Rosa was appointed vice Chairman of the Europe Committee at the HKGC of Hong Kong, an influential and venerable institution founded in 1861...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Piccoli dettagli che ti guastano la giornata
‘Ci servono delle nuove caffettiere!’ dice mia moglie con tono prerentorio mentre passeggiamo per Verona. A me quelle vecchie, in puro alluminio, prodotte da un ditta artigiana di Baveno, sul Lago...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Death of E. L. Doctorow, a master of historical fiction
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (January 6, 1931 — July 21, 2015) – a master of historical fiction – died at 84 in Manhattan of lung cancer complications, according to his son, Richard. His death is a great...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Book on Leonardo Da Vinci Presented at the HK Medical Association
Tomorrow, 23rd of July I’ll present my book ‘Leonardo Da Vinci. A Chinese Scholar Lost in Renaissance Italy’ Lascar’ Publishing, 2015 (http://www.lascarpublishing.com/leonardo/) at the Hong Kong...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Interview with Anne Teoh on her first book, “The Call of Love”, recently...
Anne Teoh wrote two interesting articles on Beyond Thirty-Nine ‘in search for Timothy Mo’, which garnered a huge appreciation and hundreds of shares. We are grateful for her stubborn scout: Tim Mo is a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Book Presentation on 30 July at the Dante Alighieri of Hong Kong. Leonardo Da...
Book Presentation: Angelo Paratico ‘Leonardo da Vinci: A Chinese Scholar Lost in Renaissance Italy’ Lascar, 2015. Please see it at http://www.lascarpublishing.com/leonardo/ Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Complexity and Interconnection: The Dao, Sade, and Time/Quantum Biology, Part 6
Time and the Dao – “Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.’” Laozi. Time is implicit in the Daodejing. The term Dao means a road, and is often...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Best 6 Books on Hong Kong
Here is my list. I know that some will disagree – but I am stopping at 6 to let you add 4 more. Perhaps it is too classic, but here they are, in order of subjective importance: 1. THE PAINTED VEIL by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kevin Guffy. A Great American Artist Living in Hong Kong
Some say that Hong Kong is a cultural desert but perhaps we are blind and deaf and we don’t to see greatness where greatness is to be found. We line up to enter huge theatres with an horrible...
View ArticleClik here to view.
From Astrophysicist at the MIT and working at NASA to Homeless in Italy
Roberto Bazzano, 60 years, was born in Savona, Liguria and earned a degree in physic at Genoa University. He then found a good job in Genoa but he decided to move to the USA. That was at the beginning...
View ArticleClik here to view.
THEi University in Sardinia – Another great achievement of Beyond Thirty-Nine
Providing a complete view and new insights into the Sardinian structure of Management and Hospitality Industry, including the University and its departments dedicated to food, nutrition and management,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sardinia – let’s stop the criminal decisions (*) and change direction
Let me help you discover Sardinia. I know many of you already know about this country. Many of you have been there at least one time; others have a house there; and, like myself, some of you come from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
September, 1945. W. S. Churchill was on Como Lake.
Was Italian dictator Benito Mussolini shot on orders issued by Winston S. Churchill? Was Mussolini privy to secrets which could have damaged the reputation of the English statesman? Was Mussolini in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An update on The Galtellì Literary Prize
We received almost 200 submissions from 22 countries in the world: Australia, Canada, Cameroon, Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Pakistan, Palestine, Nigeria,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Michael Sue. The Man in Blue.
Michael is very well known in the denim world because he was and still is a trend-setter and, even after so many years, his passion for indigo is unabated. He has recently moved to China, a Nation he...
View Article
/fit-in/580x348/filters:format(webp)/english-betterindia/media/media_files/2026/09/17/balaghat-4-2026-09-17-19-01-31.png)
