Smell is a sensual sense

In high school there was a time when I got fond of Heinrich Böll. Also literary passions follow season and today I would not feel the same emotions I felt back then. Still, there is one novel from Böll who remained impressed in my mind. The title is “Opinions of a...

Fruits & Vegetables, the colours of beauty

Schopenhauer used to say that “nine tenths of happiness are based on health. Through it, everything is source of pleasure”.
What did he mean for “health”? And what did we mean today for this word, which has articulated its meaning over the centuries in proportion to...

York: dove passato fa rima con presente

Storia e leggende, cultura e mondanità nella città più cosmopolita dello YorkshireSe è merito del mitico Harry Potter aver reso celebre lo Yorkshire con le sue campagne profumate di lavanda e fiorite di misteri, sono i secoli di storia a rendere York una delle città...