The rite of passage of 'maturity exam: fact and fiction
Nico Carlucci
Italian students last year in high school are called, these days, such a test "end": the state exam. It is, in some ways, the celebration of a collective ritual. While presenting some variations from those that preceded it, it remains the same in the "representation" but also in the expectations and the expectations of both students and teachers.
It 's a party game where everyone has a preconceived role.
So Let's dive in his space and his time are sure that question, in fact, a rite of passage (van Gennep A.) that will mark, for many children, entry into employment or university.
The occasion of his maturity, ultimately, can become important to question and be questioned by the questions of the past suddenly become present. It 'an opportunity offering, for example, the human sciences, the Italian and the history, philosophy and ancient languages. But I wonder, so, in reality: 'It's really so? Perhaps, we will still be obliged to accept a fiction? "
The student has met during the year of the twentieth century in the most significant. The teacher allowed him to rebuild a cultural model that continues to speak to the hearts and minds of those studying for real. Yes, for those who study and still believes in a labor of dedication and commitment.
Why is this which must "be", for students who pass an examination for teachers that are experiencing a "communication".
We know, however, that since the end you live far from an ideal that I'm trying to draw here.
poems and narrative, writers and poets become intelligible if done through the cultural atmosphere that have shaped them and which were the major detectors.
In other words, the experiences of men and women of a certain period of history that makes us understand what was also their "genes" and at the same time their systems of power which first objected to their art, poetry, science.
So why not also use a state exam to relive the adventure of Italy in the past has been a bulwark of civilization? E 'possible?
must, of course, say, once again to "read", to question the "new" to those who came before us, to live their claim that, ultimately, is never "hit".
E 'only if the student recreates the sound of an era, the suggestion that the verse of the poet gives mathematical formulas along with a global cultural model that could be said not to have lost their time.
Under a sky that shine on the dream, the student will put in motion the power relays its programs by its selection of facts, information, concepts which give meaning intelligence.
And this will be through the 'power of light that lead to' thrill of a "theme", a style as would Anthropology (A. Kroeber).
The great adventure is that of 'meeting of knowledge, art and literature that now make sense if the student will discover those fine threads that unite them and make them interact.
But, perhaps, even with this article I have continued to build the dream, an "ideal world" where the sadness comes back to visit me.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Sunday, June 13, 2010
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Sinio, the charm and Almost mysterious energy of Our hills
Ours is a fascinating and fertile land. The small plains turn into gentle crests and then steep slopes. Ascending a little at a time one gradually comes upon a vineyard, a hamlet, an ancient castle and then perhaps, after a hairpin bend, a breathtaking panorama opens up varying through the different seasons of the year and changing its colours to offer the observer new emotions.We’re in the Langhe, a strip of Piedmont which nature has provided with apparent tranquillity and great vital energy. The vineyards, worked with an atavistic passion, neatly cover the sorÏ and the sunny slopes of the hills take from this privileged soil the perfumes and flavours of their best red wines: Barolo, Barbaresco, Nebbiolo, Barbera and also the generous Dolcetto. But the soil of the less sunny slopes is certainly no less generous: it is there that the hazelnut trees supplying the highly esteemed Nocciola Tonda e Gentile (sweet, round hazelnut) have found their ideal habitat.
This is a land which likes to shroud itself in mystery, handed down through the generations in enthralling stories featuring le masche, alarming country witches evoking the most hidden and imaginative part of the popular culture of Langhe folk. Le masche are the queens of frightening stories, created and modified by the imagination of common folk during the long evenings spent in front of the fire on cold winter nights. Stories which tell of inexplicable facts and sorcery.
At Sinio every midsummer’s eve the "notte delle Masche" is celebrated, an excuse to make merry and relive one’s childhood listening to the stories of the beneandanti, the untiring witch hunters.
The almost stubborn will of the Langhe people was well summarised by: the inhabitants of the Langa are not afraid of digging even in the dark and that’s part of the reason why our land repays them so generously.
The products grown in the Langhe are unique because they’re the result of a series of components which only come together here: fertile soil privileged by nature; clean air far from the big urban centres and therefore from sources of pollution; the right climate for vineyards and hazelnut orchards; an intelligent farming tradition, strong-willed, solidly attached to tradition but not obtuse and with an eye to the future.
All this makes the Langa an extraordinary place which with the peace it instils and the energy it transmits, inexorably attracts people to it. Almost all those who have come here, either by chance or because they’ve heard speak of it, come back willingly and not just for a good lunch or reliable purchases of wine and desserts, but for proper holidays to spend lulled by the sincere hospitality of the local people and with hundreds of opportunities to choose between days spent in close contact with nature or enriched by cultural tours.
The products grown in the Langhe are unique because they’re the result of a series of components which only come together here: fertile soil privileged by nature; clean air far from the big urban centres and therefore from sources of pollution; the right climate for vineyards and hazelnut orchards; an intelligent farming tradition, strong-willed, solidly attached to tradition but not obtuse and with an eye to the future.
All this makes the Langa an extraordinary place which with the peace it instils and the energy it transmits, inexorably attracts people to it. Almost all those who have come here, either by chance or because they’ve heard speak of it, come back willingly and not just for a good lunch or reliable purchases of wine and desserts, but for proper holidays to spend lulled by the sincere hospitality of the local people and with hundreds of opportunities to choose between days spent in close contact with nature or enriched by cultural tours.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
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Bastia in Mondovi: Saint Florence's Chapel
The cycle of frescos in this chapel is one of the most important and vast in Piedmont. The frescos cover a surface of 326 metres and date back to 24 June 1472, even if there are traces of paintings under the XV century's ones that date back to XIV century.
Now the position of the chapel is different from the ancient one. The primitive church had his main portal in west side near the street that was next to Tanaro river. On the exterior wall, you can see the picture of Saint Christofer that points out the position of the ancient portal of this church, built up along a pilgrims and wanderer's way Thursday, June 10, 2010
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Candelo blooms and the medieval charm
The Ricetto of Candelo is a medieval fortified structure built between the XIII and the XIV century. It isn't a prince castle, but a village built by the local population will: it was used to protect the community property, wine and grains. The reason why it is still in such a good level of preservation is its own function, community wine cellar: the village has never been steadily inhabited and it has never been modified to live inside its walls.
The medieval Ricetto has a pentagonal plan, protected by walls and towers about 80 cm thick. The word "Ricetto" comes from the latin word "receptum": in the Roman period meant "gathering" inside the fortified Roman camp, which in the Middle Ages changed its meaning in "shelter, refuge". Everything, from the walls to the streets (called rue) is built by simple and poor materials: river pebbles fishbone placed in the external walls and pebbles and bricks in the cellars.
The medieval Ricetto has a pentagonal plan, protected by walls and towers about 80 cm thick. The word "Ricetto" comes from the latin word "receptum": in the Roman period meant "gathering" inside the fortified Roman camp, which in the Middle Ages changed its meaning in "shelter, refuge". Everything, from the walls to the streets (called rue) is built by simple and poor materials: river pebbles fishbone placed in the external walls and pebbles and bricks in the cellars.
The entrance tower (Door Tower, once with drawbridge) is the only way in and out to the medieval village. Just inside on your right you find the most mighty building: the Prince Tower, built around the end of the XV century by Sebastiano Ferrero, feudal lord of Candelo, important lord of Biella, treasurer and adviser of the House of Savoy. Nowadays the medieval village of the ricetto is one of the most important tourist and cultural sightseeings, something unique in Europe and certified as one of the most beautiful villages in Italy.
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