Othello

Shakespeare and the moon

"Folle è l'uomo che parla alla luna. Stolto chi non le presta ascolto" W. Shakespeare La luna ha da sempre ispirato i più illustri poeti nel corso dei secoli. Questa splendida musa, considerata come un ponte tra cielo e terra è troppo lontana per essere raggiunta ma abbastanza vicina per essere ammirata. Le opere letterarie che hanno "parlato alla luna" ci hanno rivelato le idee del tempo e della società in cui furono composte e hanno raccontato i sogni, le aspirazioni e le intuizioni degli autori e della loro epoca.

Shakespeare our contemporary

Last Thursday, class 3A s. a. went to the Globe Theatre in London to see "Macbeth" by Shakespeare. We studied this play at school last month. After the performance we visited the new Globe Theatre. We enjoyed the performance and we met Shakespeare. It was fantastic!

ReadOn Project: Nicholas Nickleby

"Nicholas Nickleby" is a novel written by Charles Dickens. It was published between 1838 and 1839.

Il maggio dei libri: Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci is not only one of the greatest artists to have ever lived, producing some of the most beautiful, soulful, passionate and mysterious paintings in Western art – he also stands as one of the most diversely talented individuals in the history of our species. He was the model of the Renaissance man – and a true genius.

Reading Shakespeare

Come, and take choice of all my library and so beguile thy sorrow...
— Titus Andronicus

   

Dialogue by Sabatino Vietri (Speaker), Angelo Giordano (Othello), Simone Cavaliere (Iago), Noemi De Cunzo (Desdemona) e Silvana Musto (Emilia)
Audio Editing and graphics by Luca Dello Russo

The history of English language

The history of the language spoken and written in England is divided into three periods, which correspond to three major phases: Old English, Middle English and Modern English...