The canto of Ulysses narrated by Primo Levi

In 1944 Primo Levi, twenty-five years old at the time, was the Häftling (detainee) number 174517 in the Auschwitz concentration camp.  He managed to overcome that awful trial, survive, and moreover keep his human dignity [...]

Dante’s Ulysses, symbol of human nobility

The person of Ulysses towers over the other damned souls of Malebolge, the dreadful ditches of the eighth circle of Hell where fraudsters are punished. Some commentators have observed that the Greek hero would, if he were not guilty of the deceit of the Trojan horse, belong to the world which suited him better of the lofty noble spirits of Limbo.

Ulysses tells his shipwreck in Sicilian vernacular

Tano Avanzato and his wife Erminia Terranova are two Sicilian ballad-singers and founded together the popular song group Zabara in 1991.  They have to his name hundreds of concerts which they have staged in Italy and abroad. [...]

The poem “Ulysses” of Umberto Saba

Umberto Saba (Trieste, 1883-1957) was one of the major Italian poets of the 20th century. In the poem “Ulysses”, published in the collection Mediterranee of 1946, he is «the questing seeker, derived from the heroic figure in the [...]

Monteverdi – The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland

The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland is an opera set by Claudio Monteverdi to a libretto by Giacomo Badoaro. The opera was first performed at the Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice during the 1639–1640 carnival season.

UKRAINIAN – Oleksandr Dmytrenko

Oleksandr Dmytrenko is a Ukrainian linguist born in 1971.  He took his degree in 1994 at the Upper Pedagogic Institute for foreign languages of Kiev. He is now professor of French at the École spécialisée № 49 of the Ukrainian [...]

Kazuo Okuma

Kazuo Okuma is a Japanese journalist born in Tokyo in 1937.  He took his degree in History and Scientific Philosophy in 1963 at the University of Tokyo and immediately started working for the daily newspaper Asahi [...]

Humphrey Tonkin

Humphrey Tonkin was born in the UK (Truro, Cornwall, 1939) and moved to the United States as a graduate student.  He holds an undergraduate degree in English from Cambridge University and a a Ph.D. from [...]