"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

C.R. Shelidon

  • The Infinite Art of Practical Effects, at the museum venue called Fabbrica del Vapore, is an invitation to embark on a nostalgic journey through how movies used to be made, and it’s closing this week-end, on May 18. This unique showcase pays homage to a movie...

    Author Imageshelidon
    16 May, 2025

  • After seeing the splendid exhibition dedicated to Casorati here in Milan, I was reminded by an old-time friend that once upon a time I used to organise themed visits around Milan and bring them about. It was nice, so here I am. Have you been...

    Author Imageshelidon
    14 May, 2025

  • Andrea Solario (ca. 1465–1524) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Milan, and his work reflects the confluence of what’s called “Lombard realism”, the naturalistic tradition of Leonardo da Vinci and the refined elegance of the High Renaissance with the rich colourism of Venetian art. The...

    Author Imageshelidon
    13 May, 2025

  • Il 13 e il 14 maggio 2025, il polo fieristico di Fiera Milano Rho ospita la sesta edizione di AI Week, un evento dedicato all’intelligenza artificiale applicata al mondo del lavoro, dell’impresa e della trasformazione digitale. Organizzata con un format ibrido, che integra sessioni in...

    Author Imageshelidon
    10 May, 2025

  • Last week, I pursued the general hype and went to our local theatre to see a contemporary Opera inspired by Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose, one of my favourite books of all time. And though it was mostly inspired by the 1986 movie, it...

    Author Imageshelidon
    07 May, 2025

  • In the rich tapestry of 20th-century Italian art, Felice Casorati is a figure of striking elegance and introspection at the crossroads of symbolism, metaphysical painting, and the classic Italian tradition. Casorati did not simply paint; he composed visual odes to silence, to structure, and to...

    Author Imageshelidon
    04 May, 2025

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Stuff to Read

A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter XII: Wolves in the Sheep Fold The forest was not far from the Bailiff’s house, and in two bounds Thibault found himself on the further side of...

May 14, 2025

A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter XI: David and Goliath After walking the whole length of the village, they stopped before an imposing looking house at the junction of the roads lead...

May 7, 2025

Last week, I pursued the general hype and went to our local theatre to see a contemporary Opera inspired by Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose, one of my favourite books of all time. And though it w...

May 7, 2025

A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter X: Maitre Magloire In this reckless state of mind Thibault, who had not as yet decided on any special course of action, spent the last days of the ol...

April 30, 2025

A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter IX: The Wolf-Leader Thibault, fleeing from Madame Polet’s threats and her farm servants’ weapons, turned instinctively towards the forest...

April 23, 2025

A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter VIII: Thibault’s Wishes The widow, on perceiving the effect which the sight of the soldiers advancing towards the mill had upon Landry, was al...

April 16, 2025

A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter VII: The Boy at the Mill Finding it impossible either to cut off or pull out the accursed hair, the only thing left for Thibault to do was to hide it...

April 2, 2025

A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter VI: The Bedevilled Hair The huntsmen, reassured about their master’s health, now went in search of the dogs, which had been left to carry on th...

March 26, 2025

Mi sono di recente avvicinata alla serie di romanzi gialli di Seishi Yokomizo pubblicati in Italia da Sellerio e che hanno come protagonista Kōsuke Kindaichi, un detective estremamente popolare in Gi...

March 19, 2025

A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter V: The Pact with Satan Thibault stopped short on the threshold, overcome with astonishment at this re-apparition. “I was saying,” began t...

March 19, 2025

Dark and gloomy grew the kingdom of the gnomes in proportion as the light of each individual inhabitant decreased. Many who formerly were like luminous spheres, shedding radiant rays to a considerable...

March 13, 2025

A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter IV: The Black Wolf Thibault’s first thought was to get himself some supper, for he was terribly tired. The past day had been an eventful one fo...

March 12, 2025

Happening in June

There’s the widespread narrative that transsexuality is something new and we’re all wound up around something we invented yesterday. And to that narrative we say: fuck you. Representation has neve...

June 19, 2022

Following Aphra Behn’s death in 1689, Delarivier Manley collected her inheritance and brought forward the discourse around the sexual identity of women and the legitimation of female same-sex attr...

June 18, 2022

As we have seen with Aphra Behn, the Restauration period started challenging some of the concepts around women’s desire in both heterosexual and homosexual relationships, with delicate examples of t...

June 12, 2022

Undervalued as an author till the 1970s, Aphra Behn is not only a feminist icon but her works around women’s sexuality are an exquisite example of sapphic poetry. 240 years after her death, Virginia...

June 11, 2022

In 1964, Egyptologist Ahmed Moussa made an astonishing discovery: a tomb, in the necropolis at Saqqara, nearby the paved, raised road leading to the pyramid of King Unas. The tomb was a mastaba, a fla...

June 5, 2022

Well, I said I was going to share some notes for Pride Month, didn’t I? Here they are. I’d like to start with an amazing author and intellectual: Christine de Pizan, an Italian poet who wo...

June 4, 2022

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