Don Camillo

Les Bienveillantes

Frères humains, laissez-moi vous raconter comment ça s’est passé. On n’est pas votre frère, rétorque-rez-vous, et on ne veut pas le savoir. Et c’est bien vrai qu’il s’agit d’une sombre histoire, mais édifianteaussi, un véritable conte moral, je vous l’assure.

Jonathan Littell est né à New York, en 1967. Les Bienveillantes, sa première œuvre littéraire, a été récompensé par le prix Goncourt et le Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie francaise 2006.

runes

scriptum

roots of English

Is English Really a Germanic Language?

Latin pronunciation

What Latin Sounded Like - and how we know

Pali

Several years ago, concurrently with its ongoing research into Vipassana, the Vipassana Research Institute (VRI) assumed a monumental undertaking: the publication of an authentic version of the Pali literature in Devanagari script. To understand the significance of this project, it is necessary to briefly describe the sources of Vipassana Meditation.

This web site is based on the Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana CD published by the Vipassana Research Institute. Based at Dhamma Giri, Igatpuri, near Mumbai, India, the Vipassana Research Institute also publishes literature & disseminates information related to Vipassana Meditation Technique as taught byS.N.Goenka in the tradition ofSayagyi U Ba Khin.

Vipassana is a universal, scientific method towards purifying the mind. It is the practical essence of the teachings of the Buddha, who taught Dhamma - the Universal Law of Nature.
 
Pali (Pāli) is a Prakrit language native to the Indian subcontinent. It is widely studied because it is the language of much of the earliest extant literature ofBuddhism as collected in the Pāli Canon or Tipiṭaka and is the sacred languageof Buddhism.

Pali Language Study Aids

© 2012

Writing

Recent archaeological research indicates that the origin and spread of writing may be more complex than previously thought. Complex state systems with proto-cuneiform writing on clay and wood may have existed in Syria and Turkey as early as the mid-fourth millennium B.C. If further excavations in these areas confirm this assumption, then writing on clay tablets found at Uruk would constitute only a single phase of the early development of writing. The Uruk archives may reflect a later period when writing "took off" as the need for more permanent accounting practices became evident with the rapid growth of large cities with mixed populations at the end of the fourth millennium B.C. Clay became the preferred medium for recording bureaucratic items as it was abundant, cheap, and durable in comparison to other mediums.

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مسلسل نبي الله يوسف الصديق

Sayyid Al-Qimni

Published on Mar 14, 2012
Egypt Author Sayyid Al-Qimni - Al-Arabiya TV (Saudi Arabia/Dubai) - February 23, 2012

Shakespeare: Original pronunciation

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DIALOGUE AUX ENFERS ENTRE MACHIAVEL ET MONTESQUIEU

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LA POLITIQUE DE MACHIAVEL AU XIXe SIÈCLE,

PAR UN CONTEMPORAIN.

«Bientôt on verrait un calme affreux, pendant lequel tout se réunirait contre la puissance violatrice des lois.»
«Quand Sylla voulut rendre la liberté à Rome, elle ne put plus la recevoir»
(MONTESQUIEU, Esp. des Lois.)

BRUXELLES,
IMPRIMERIE DE A. MERTENS ET FILS,
RUE DE L'ESCALIER, 22

1864

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SIMPLE AVERTISSEMENT.

Ce livre a des traits qui peuvent s'appliquer à tous les gouvernements, mais il a un but plus précis: il personnifie en particulier un système politique qui n'a pas varié un seul jour dans ses applications, depuis la date néfaste et déjà trop lointaine, hélas! de son intronisation.
Il ne s'agit ici ni d'un libelle, ni d'un pamphlet; le sens des peuples modernes est trop policé pour accepter des vérités violentes sur la politique contemporaine. La durée surnaturelle de certains succès est d'ailleurs faite pour corrompre l'honnêteté elle-même; mais la conscience publique vit encore et le ciel finira bien quelque jour par se mêler de la partie qui se joue contre lui.
On juge mieux de certains faits et de certains principes quand on les voit en dehors du cadre où ils se meuvent habituellement sous nos yeux; le changement du point d'optique terrifie parfois le regard!
Ici, tout se présente sous la forme d'une fiction; il serait superflu d'en donner, par anticipation, la clef. Si ce livre a une portée, s'il renferme un enseignement, il faut que le lecteur le comprenne et non qu'on le lui commente. Cette lecture, d'ailleurs, ne manquera pas d'assez vives distractions; il faut y procéder lentement toutefois, comme il convient aux écrits qui ne sont pas des choses frivoles.
On ne demandera pas quelle est la main qui a tracé ces pages: une oeuvre comme celle-ci est en quelque sorte impersonnelle. Elle répond à un appel de la conscience; tout le monde l'a conçue, elle est exécutée, l'auteur s'efface, car il n'est que le rédacteur d'une pensée qui est dans le sens général, il n'est qu'un complice plus ou moins obscur de la coalition du bien.
GENÈVE, le 15 octobre 1864.

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syriska flyktingar

Chi vuole riformare uno stato anticato in una città libera, ritenga almeno l’ombra de’ modi antichi.

Niccolò Machiavelli - Discorsi sopra la prima Deca di Tito Livio (1531)

Libro primo

Capitolo 25

wikipedia

Il principe

The Prince (Italian: Il Principe, [il ˈprin.tʃi.pe]) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (About Principalities). However, the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. This was done with the permission of the Medici pope Clement VII, but "long before then, in fact since the first appearance of the Prince in manuscript, controversy had swirled about his writings".^[1]

Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan

Published on Nov 14, 2015
Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
is a 2007 Russian semi-historical film about the early life of Temüjin, who later came to be known as Genghis Khan. It is directed by Sergei Bodrov, with the storyline conceived from a screenplay written by Bodrov and Arif Aliev. The film was produced by Bodrov, Sergei Selyanov and Anton Melnik and stars Tadanobu Asano, Sun Honglei and Chuluuny Khulan in principal roles. Mongol explores abduction, kinship and the repercussions of war. The film was a co-production between companies in Russia, Germany and Kazakhstan. Filming took place mainly in the People's Republic of China, principally in Inner Mongolia (the Mongol autonomous region), and in Kazakhstan.

The EPIC OF GILGAMESH

Published on Jun 9, 2014
The EPIC OF GILGAMESH is the earliest great work of literature that we know of, and was first written down by the Sumerians around 2100 B.C.

Ancient Sumer was the land that lay between the two rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, in Mesopotamia. The language that the Sumerians spoke was unrelated to the Semitic languages of their neighbors the Akkadians and Babylonians, and it was written in a syllabary (a kind of alphabet) called "cuneiform". By 2000 B.C., the language of Sumer had almost completely died out and was used only by scholars (like Latin is today). No one knows how it was pronounced because it has not been heard in 4000 years.

What you hear in this video are a few of the opening lines of part of the epic poem, accompanied only by a long-neck, three-string, Sumerian lute known as a "gish-gu-di". The instrument is tuned to G - G - D, and although it is similar to other long neck lutes still in use today (the tar, the setar, the saz, etc.) the modern instruments are low tension and strung with fine steel wire. The ancient long neck lutes (such as the Egyptian "nefer") were strung with gut and behaved slightly differently. The short-neck lute known as the "oud" is strung with gut/nylon, and its sound has much in common with the ancient long-neck lute although the oud is not a fretted instrument and its strings are much shorter (about 25 inches or 63 cm) as compared to 32 inches (82 cm) on a long-neck instrument.

For anyone interested in these lutes, I highly recommend THE ARCHAEOMUSICOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST by Professor Richard Dumbrill.

The location for this performance is the courtyard of Nebuchadnezzar's palace in Babylon. The piece is four minutes long and is intended only as a taste of what the music of ancient Sumer might have sounded like.

White Crane

Kaputt

Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera.

« Kaputt è un libro crudele. La sua crudeltà è la più straordinaria esperienza che io abbia tratto dallo spettacolo dell'Europa in questi anni di guerra. Tuttavia, fra i protagonisti di questo libro, la guerra non è che un personaggio secondario. Si potrebbe dire che ha solo un valore di pretesto, se i pretesti inevitabili non appartenessero all'ordine della fatalità. In Kaputt la guerra conta dunque come fatalità. Non v'entra in altro modo. Direi che v'entra non da protagonista, ma da spettatrice, in quello stesso senso in cui è spettatore un paesaggio. La guerra è il paesaggio oggettivo di questo libro. »

(Curzio Malaparte)

Kaputt
Autore	Curzio Malaparte
1ª ed. originale	1944
Genere	romanzo
Sottogenere	autobiografia (parziale)
Lingua originale	italiano

Kaputt è un libro scritto da Curzio Malaparte tra il 1941 ed il 1943. È difficile definirlo un romanzo^[1] nel senso comune del termine: non ha uno sviluppo di trama prevedibile.

È piuttosto un insieme di episodi, in parte autobiografici, tenuti assieme dal riferimento alla cornice bellica in cui si dipana il racconto

Tlazoltéotl

Tlazoltéotl (en náhuatl: tlazōlteōtl, ‘diosa de la inmundicia’‘tla, prefijo; zōlli, inmundicia; téōtl, dios’)^? Deidad de origen Huasteco, que en la mitología mexica es la diosa de la lujuria y de los amores ilícitos, patrona de la incontinencia, del adulterio, del sexo, de las pasiones, de la carnalidad y de las transgresiones morales; era la diosa que eliminaba del mundo el pecado y la diosa más relacionada con la sexualidad y con la Luna. En los códices se la representaba en la postura azteca habitual para dar a luz o a veces defecando debido a que los pecados de lujuria se simbolizaban con excrementos. Así como en otros códices aparece sosteniendo "la raíz del diablo", planta usada para hacer más fuertes los efectos del pulque (bebida relacionada con la inmoralidad) y disminuir los dolores del parto.
Era conocida como "la comedora de suciedad" debido a que se creía que visitaba a la gente que estaba por morir. La diosa Tlazoltéotl mostraba las contradicciones de algunos valores morales sobre la feminidad en la sociedad azteca: traía el sufrimiento con enfermedades venéreas y lo curaba con la medicina, inspiraba las desviaciones sexuales pero a la vez tenía la capacidad de absolverlas, y todo ello siendo diosa madre de la fertilidad, del parto, patrona de los médicos y a la vez diosa cruel que traía locura.