Wednesday, May 27, 2026

 Italian dispatches: Filippo Mazzei

 The series of Italian in USA is very amazing, sometime emerges somebody: Cristoforo Colombo(1451-1506), Amerigo Vespucci(1454-1512) Giovanni Caboto(1445/1450-1498-1501), that after Colombo, he was the first to land in American continent, to Canada precisely; but since for Italian is a mission to deal other affairs, above all of other nations, hence Philip Mazzei(1730-1816), born near Florence, whose the name says nothing because he is an unknown; anyway he was an agent of Virginia State, and we can read, thank the Public library of New York, that has purchased the dispatches in year 1927, that Mazzei written to future presidents as Jefferson(1735-1826)., where we can also know some episode of uneasy, because also the agents, no certainly secret and after we will because, has had some illness, in fact Mazzei confesses: “MAZZEI TO THOMAS JEFFERSON [Dispatch No. 1-Nantes, Nov. 27, 1779. It is 8 days since I arrived at this place from Rochelle, near which City I was set a-shore in an Island by a Portuguese vessel from Cork in Ireland. The various circumstances, which have contributed to my liberty, and several other anecdotes since I left the Capes of Virginia, deserve I think that I should trouble you with an account of them ; but an illness of 2 months & half, & the constant uneasiness of the mind during 5 months, have reduced me so low, that I can scarcely write at all”; but why Mazzei hasn’t been an secret agent? A note of the comment explains because: “Mazzei's account of his capture, captivity, and escape from the British…”, hence has been guest of British jails; it is normal because after the revolution of colonies, every employed of American govern was suspect. Evidently Mazzei has had subscription to illness, because after the departure from New York he has had trouble, a note says: “Two or three days after his departure from New York, Mazzei suffered an attack of malaria…”, but other note explains that: “When his ship was captured by the British, and he and his family were taken prisoners, Mazzei, in order to destroy the evidence against him, threw overboard his instructions and commission. “; it is normal because the American ships were become enemy. But beyond the precarious health emerges also a suggestion in the text of this dispatch, because Mazzei, for a psychological tranquility he imagined to write to his friend, Bellini, Carlo(1735-1804), a native of Florence, Tuscany, whom Mazzei encouraged to come to America. For twenty-four years, from 1779 to 1803, he was a professor at the College of William and Mary, teaching French, Italian, Spanish, and German.”. Mazzei could not justify this suggestion through these thesis that are to modern psychology, but it is also an example of importance that Mazzei given to his employed, because he was writing to the president of thirteen colonies, by now become ex colonies, and in fact he precisely: “I could not with any degree of prudence attempt from New-York, or Long-Island, to write to Virginia…”, and after the my thesis about the suggestion is proved from the following text: “…but having signified to those persons, who under hand favored me as much as possible, that I wanted to write to an Italian Gentleman in Williamsburg about his domestic affairs in Italy…”; because thinking a letter to a compatriot, and not to a president the suggestion is scant. The aid of French is shown from a dispatch from Nantes: “Nantes, December12, 1779. A very good piece of intelligence, which I recorded yesterday, has been followed by very mortifying news arrived in Town to day yesterday I was informed, that 9. days since it was resolved in the King's council to lend Congress, in arms and such other things as they want, to the amount of 16. millions of livres.”; the king mentioned is Louis 16th king of France, that has gain to create difficult both politic and economic to England; and further proof is given to the following text, that says: “By 2 persons from l' Orient and letters from Brest we have heard the disagreeable news of Count D'Esteings's defeat in America, supposed to have happened on Long-Island”, a note to this script explains who is Count D'Esteings, and the note says: “Estaing, Charles Hector Theodat, Comte d', 1729-1794. French Admiral in command of the fleet sent to aid the United States against Great Britain”. The French evidently liked very much this emprise of Count D'Esteings, because the text of Mazzei followed: “D'Esteing is reckoned a hero, and is now the darling of France ; but in this town they are downright mad for him.”; it is a representation of pressure that Great Britain was making toward the French, evidently for mere commercial motive, because this enthusiasm for D'Esteing, certainly with participation of bourgeois, active in merchants, and that after guaranteed the birth of French revolution.     

 

Alessandro Lusana  



 

Tuesday, May 26, 2026

 

An Italian source of American revolution: Carlo Botta

Contemporary Italian historical men of American revolution, this is the formal act of independence, because the colonies were already independent, because to England were necessary alone the harbors of new word, and no certainly other, the imperator Vespasiano (9b.Ch.-79)took a fistful of money and he set under the nose of his son and asked: “Puteant?”, that translated if :”It stink?”, because Vespasiano was taxed the bathroom in ancient Rome; this example is necessary to explain that a nation, every nation, today as ancient and for future, is interested alone to merchant because its people want alone the money and wealth, hence the British wanted alone the merchant and stop; anyway Carlo Botta(1766-1837), was a historical man that has described the American revolution but alone from documents and other historical scripts, naturally he begun from emigration toward of new word of bannered, and he said: “This crowd of exiled, from England above all, come to north American when the reign was owner of Stuart family…and were founders of colonies of New Hampshire, di Massachusetts, di Connecticut and Rhode Island, that  Botta called Rodi island, and these colonies called themselves New England, and after the Virginia and New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware and county of Maryland and Carolinas”, this the North Carolina and South Carolina, and after  he mentioned also Georgia; some personal think that neither we neither Botta can proof, when he said: “We don’t believe that because they came in other place, where they were born for odd towns and searching better condition of life, they quit their country as enemies…”; we can comment or asked to Botta: “Why they came to new word? Because the wealth was better? No certainly, may because they were free? May, or they came as seamen and after the landed they decided that the transfer wasn’t so bad?”. A man, that is equal always in every period of history, can choose something for very much motives; and the persecutions toward religious minority is a cuck up, because the England was a country that in north, this is the Scotland were Catholic, and Elisabeth, queen of England, begun not a war for religion of Scotland, because she would have determine a civil war, and in Rome, Italy and the Spain wanted alone it, so that through motive of religion they would have attacked, and the England would has become a Spain colon; Elisabeth 1th(1533-1603) as Philip 2th(1527-1598) and pope Saint Pio 5th(1566-1572), thought politically After these words Botta in fact said: “Beyond the customs and the manners of common country, they brought also the privileges of real authority all conferred…”; but we can doubt also of this affirmation because if the royal power had given so much privileges, why they gone away? May my opinion that they were sailormen is more right. A contradiction is evident the step of Botta said: “But for the religion they enjoyed of major freedom in confront to the first country…and being this motive the principal cause to their departure…”, but we can stress to Botta that he has written: “…they brought also the privileges…”; the major freedom is contrary to privileges that they has had in their country. The revolutionary faith of Botta emerges, although hide in following words: “…since nothing province or colony has had an assembly of represent elected from the people…”, the revolutionary faith I want refer to the French revolution, that Botta held convince; furthermore: “Hence it doesn’t amaze us because this generation of men have had their brain toward those credence that are the ground and principles of England govern, but they wanted a manner of govern more free…”, but if they refused the oppressive British govern, they would have refused everything that the England govern has had. The following step has also a psychological note: “…from that fervor that be born naturally in hearth of men, and from the obstacles that are contrary to their opinions both politic and religious…”, it is the hide note of psychology, because in front of the contrary the wit of man becomes fanatic of his opinion, in fact Thomas Mann(1875-1955), has said that the major difficulty for the political propagandist is convince himself rather other; and this think is historical represented from the colons from England, because they used the same model of original country; we must add also that this model was the unique that the colon known; but the participation of people to election of assemblies was very limited, because the vote was destined alone the landowners, therefore the free was very limited; but Botta has took the French revolution, when the elections were frequent, and the people was called to vote. Regard to give the tax from owner will Botta describes the birth of the assemblies, he says: “…of give their money alone from their will…for this are born the assemblies in every colonies…”. The oppression that Botta suggested is in fact a moral custom, as we can infer: “…Everything on the contrary in England America regarded a largest unusual of social life; everything appeared near to favor to freedom civil…”, it is could seem a simple note, that has a difference from English life, and it is the motive of oppression that Botta involuntary confesses through the following words: “…regarded a largest unusual of social life…”; the feral laws of England were alone the moral life, hence the oppression was alone from these moral custom, it is normal that in young colonies of USA, this moral life wasn’t, because it was a youngest nation, actually it wasn’t neither a nation. Regard the religion Botta has forgotten a particular, in the step around the religion of American he said: “The American were the majority protestant, but protestant also against the reliable of Protestant authorities and part of their that in England are called dissident; hence beyond don’t recognize, as Protestant nothing the authority for religion whose decisions are unquestionable…”, it is certainly true, but the particular that Botta has avoid to remember is that already Luther has made it, he didn’t recognized nothing authority. Other particular that Botta or will ignore or will avoid is the following step: “Since the brain of Americans whole free for religion, they used this liberty also for other things, specially in govern matters…In the colonies were abundant the legists, that know take the tiny from the tiny, they are, in a country governed from an absolute prince, the lawyers of his power, and in a free country the useful defender of freedom”, certainly true, but Botta has forgotten that the method is same, the lawyers are same, and other particular that Botta avoided of think, what? The colonies were again too much young to have an owner moral custom and an institution legislative; hence the lawyers that Botta mentions where were is a mystery because may the lawyers could be in the colonies but aren’t the tribunal, and the laws were different form a colonies from other. The inability of Botta after emerges again for other affirmation that is laughable: “…since the study of beauty letters and the noble disciplines has already made the notable progresses in American colonies…”; if I was a fanatic nationalist would stress this affirmation; but the authors of these letters who are? What books they have scripted? Nothing is possible to know! Regard this step other affirmation that is very ridiculous, and that proofs the inability of Botta: “Scant books have the colons, but these between the hands of everybody, treat around the matters of govern or history, and it told also the persecution of Puritan bore. “, the persecution toward the Puritans were, and it implied the emigration to colonies in USA, but the ridiculous affirmation is the. “Scant books have the colons…”, we can remember to Botta that he some lines after has said that in colonies the books were very much. The reflex of the revolutionary wit of Botta, is in the following words: “Those(the Puritans) persecuted in ancient country for their believe for the think around the Church or State and they have decided through a decided deliberation wanted quit it, beyond the immense sea and escaping to more remote and savage regions, so that they could freely show it.”, it is the reflex of French revolution, that in idea was a laic, as in fact was, and where the liberty was very odd in confront to monarchies country; it is hence alone an enthusiastic transfer from the French revolution to colonies.     

Alessandro Lusana    


  

 

Monday, May 25, 2026

 

Prompter

Richard was a writer with usual crisis, and he worked in a magazine very popular and without pride and nobility, a magazine for housewife that pass the day to read cuck up and after they told it to friends; he was very bored and disgusted from this life, and the moment better of day was when he ended his job and he could writer his history, very short tales, with different genres, adventure, love, philosophy, cultural, humanistic and other. From time he has usual crisis of creativity; he didn’t wrote something and was very boring; a Saturday, he was always earl raising, in front of his computer he decided to write, and he concentrated on the white sheet, he thought a tale, and begun to write, but after some line he deleted all and begun again; after some tentative an idea, a history of a teen, Alice, and he thought what tale he could tell; he seen the sheet that alone composed of lines, and he read these lines, that said: “Alice was a teen that attended an private exclusive school, and she dreamed to make the writer; she loved the past writers from ancient Greek to contemporary, she loved read and in hers school she was considered very intellectual, she has written from young age of 10 years old, and now she was 18 years old; some time she read again the first tale and she laughed about the poor histories that she has written, very dingy, but she has, then, alone 10 years old, hence it was justifiable. This history Richard read and read again, and after: “I am Alice, and I am suggest to you a tale, now you must follow”. Richard tried to write something but he was blocked and felt an absence of logic and of a history; suddenly the phone sounded and Richard took the receiver, was the editor that wanted know the level of the next tale because he has wanted publish his tales, Richard told to editor, George, that he was working very well and very much; while he spoke to editor on sheet continued the tale, and same Richard read what that Alice was writing, and in fact the editor asked: “What do you are writing now?”, and Richard: “I am writing the history of Alice”, and George: “Very good, who is Alice?”, and Richard seen that on the sheet shown a face of a teen, and she said to Richard: “Alice is a teen, as I have said to you, above told it, and he wanted become a writer…”, and Richard: “Yes, now I remember…”, and George: “What do you are remembering?”, and Richard: “I remember what Alice is saying to me”, and George: “Are you sound?”, and Richard: “Yes, perfectly, because Alice is saying me the idea”, and George: “Who is Alice?”, and Richard: “The teen of tale, she is writing the tale”, and George: “Where is Alice now?”, and Richard: “In computer”, and Richard: “Just moment I will call the police, don’t worry in jail you con write, just a moment”; and George broken the call phone; while Alice continued to write, and Richard read it. Then minutes after and the doorbell sounded and two policemen gone in apartment of Richard they arrested him and Bernard one of police men begun read the tale, he seated and Lionel other policeman called him, but Bernard was seated and continued the read, hence Lionel approached to him and he also begun the read, while Richard was waiting; other policemen gone in apartment and everybody read the tale of Alice, and to the morning, in 2 a.m., a district of police arrived to apartment of Richard, and also they read; finally beyond 150 policemen were guest of jail, and George, the editor, published these tales with name of author, this is Alice.

Alessandro Lusana       

 


           

 

Sunday, May 24, 2026

 Portrait of a city: moral relativism

Jay McInerney(1955) in the Bright lights, big city is a portrait of a city, in this case New York, but the author a particular attention to daily behavior; after a night in a night club the protagonist, involuntary met a woman with curlers and a dog, that when sees the protagonist he become vigilant; the comment is: “It is normal for a dog!” and answer: “Certainly, but the description so accurate, and punctual that hasn’t importance in history, is a moment of mere realism”, as the scent from a bakery; as the description of emotion that every couple has felt during the first rapport, alone and already married; it is alone the prime experience that every couple makes, this is living together almost an experiment to tried new experiences and above all, consider if the matrimonial life is going to be nice, and the protagonist looked the windows of fourth floor, and the description translates what we can feel in similar episode: “Behind those windows is the apartment that you have shared with Amanda, when you was arrived in New York. It was small and dark but to you liked the ceiling…”, voluntary or no the author describes the emotions that in conformity Marcel Proust’s(1871-1922) code, that in his romances, La recherché, he described the emotions and images that are tied to some moment, and that we keep in our memory, and that reemerge when we have a experience as a scent, an image, a scene, a taste; it is the realism, mere realism, and other images: “You have had money to rent, your preferred restaurant…every morning you have waked with the scent of bakery. You gone out to buy the journal…it is occurred two years ago before that you have married”; I think that the author has took personal memories, that confirms what I have said, because the life that, after years, become mechanical, is so, the behavior of protagonist is portrait every man in the word, hence more than a portrait of a city it is the portrait of word. Other characteristic that if think, I have very much despise, is the use of sniff that the author describes and with very much particulars; it is the moral relativism of title; because the use or dependence of drug is mean of weakness, that during this romance is evident above all in meeting in night club or other places; but also it is life of a city. As is a involuntary meeting or overbearing manner of a crazy that has seat on knee of a lady, and around is indifference, the author describes the reaction: “Almost every passengers are looking the scene but they feign of don’t see”, it is behavior of whom will not problems. The attention of protagonist is took from a announce of a disappeared with description and painting, while the green of traffic light appears. It is more than a romance is a size of labor day. The following tale is a experimented realism but in job, and the author concentrated the attention of emotive dynamic, hence from external realism he took the internal truth; but it is always realism.

Alessandro Lusana 


Saturday, May 23, 2026

 Medieval lesson

Michael awaked a Sunday and he was early raising, he opened the door and he was in a city that he didn’t know, where the people was very strange because they spoke a strange language and somebody indicated to him a build and he gone to it, he gone in and seated on the chair, and he heard the lesson, in fact the professor was in desk and he spoken about some difficulties of medieval documents: “The documents begun always to invocation to God, In nomine Dei(in name of God), after the date of document, this is the year, day and indiction”, and Carl, a student: “What is the indicion?”, and the professor: “The indiction is period of 15 years, that the notary used to date every documents, and after 15 years it started again”, and George, other student: “What is In presentia infrascriptuorum testium?”; and the professor: “When the plaintiff were present in front notary, their names have to write, with name of father”, and same George: “Why name of father, it is enough the last name”, and the professor: “During the Middle age isn’t the last name, alone the patronymic”, and Albert other student: “When were used the last names”, and the professor: “When after the reform of Luther, the Church wanted the registers of birth and death, that was called Status animarum”, and after: “The state or number of souls”, and other student: “Why they used alone the Latin language?” and the professor: “Because these documents were alone to notaries, as today if somebody has a document from a tribunal, he bring it to a lawyer, because the lawyer knows what is, and we must consider that then the illiteracy was a the principal character”, and Gerald, a student: “They have to not gone to school?”, and the professor: “The schools were alone to richness families, and the monks and priest made lessons to childes so that they learned the letters, but the poor families, have destined their sons to other jobs”, and a student girl Germaine: “Who taught to write beyond the priests?”, and the professor: “The convents where the childes were educated to Latin language, to theology and philosophy”, and same Germaine: “Why they have shown the vocation?”, and the professor: “No absolutely, the families were composed among much sons, hence it have to send somebody in convent, also to have the protection of God”, and Edward: “Why much sons if they were poor?”, and the professor: “because were necessary the hands to farmer job”, suddenly the bell sounded and it is meant the lesson was ended. The following lesson was to ancient Roman history, and suddenly the light turn off and after some moment it turn on, and the students were in senate of ancient Rome, in 64th years b.Ch., and they seen a man that wore a chiton and he begun his oration through these words: “Quo usque tandem abutere, Catlina patient nostra…”; and Laura asked to a student near to her: “Where are we?”, and Andrew, the student, answered: “We are in Roman senate in year 64th b. Ch., and that man is Cicero”. Laura hence to be silent and heard.

Alessandro Lusana          

 


Friday, May 22, 2026

 

A marriage

George and Annie were married from 12 years and as the couple, they every evening he read the journal and she was usually in front the television, by now were ended the arguments, the politic, the sport, that didn’t interested twice, some discussion again about the some comment about the discourse of one politic or major of a city, he was an architect and she a secretary, without sons, but Annie loved read and sometime, it was a need of communication to hers husband or alone the need of communicate to somebody hers feel or emotions; anyway they were a common couple, that has owner interest, Annie told the episodes amusing occurred in office or some gossip, as the director of office that was failed in love for a lawyer, young and very beauty and also very clever, but she have already a crowd of lovers to back, and she was interesting alone the law and win the lawsuits and neither, hers name was Isabell and she was very aseptic, somebody has never seen laughs her, she was high, tiny and very precise, and thank to hers beautiful she became reliable of lawsuit, also because she had two specializations for penal and civil right, and seems that nobody has fucked her, never, she has married to the law; during a daily hour of job, Isabell called Annie and she, very soon, got up and took the dossiers run very swift to Isabell, that was speaking to telephone when Annie knocked to door; Isabell enabled to access, and Annie waited that she has ended the call phone, Annie opened the file and Isabell read and she gazed a step: “One years alone?”, and Annie: “The director has said…”, but Isabell interrupted and commented: “No, absolutely here is necessary the capital pain”, and Annie toward the author: “You have merited it, and I am not sorry, actually I am very happy”, and the author: “Why?”, and Isabell: “Because is half page that you are telling about very much cock up, about the marriage of Annie and George, their jobs, their daily life, about my very well ass, but when we are going to say something? Shit!”, and the author: “A moment, I must describe…”, and Annie: “Fuck you!, I am here in job as secretary, and neither exist, Isabell isn’t because you have invented alone, George my husband is a coach of soccer and no certainly an architect, I hate the read, the last book that has read was…Isabell, what is the last book that I have read?”, and the author: “May…”, and Isabell: “Shut, talkative”, if you say other word we are going to go away, and stop, you are a pain in the neck, and stop!”, and the author: “Ja full!”, and while they are speaking, the author: “Can I bring to you…”, and Annie: “Fuck you, shut and must be shut”. Hence the author gone away.

Alessandro Lusana            

Thursday, May 21, 2026

 

Artist in the history: Konrad Fiedler

During the past century it was usual consider the artist as a kind of human that lived in the his word, where he imagined and created, independently from other causes form himself; nothing was more false of this concept and idea, because the artist was in the history, in the town, in the word and he was attentive to gain an job, costumers and other; hence the artist was the human that was present in the history; its natural, following the comments, but a historical art man as Roberto Longhi(1890-1970), at last in Italy, was the idealist exponent, although didn’t declared, of this address, that has took directly from Hegelian philosophy, and the in literature, was exponent otherwise idealist Benedetto Croce(1866-1952). But we can consider that sometime also a historical art man as Konrad Fiedler(1841-1895), that was born and grown up in the moment influenced from Hegel(1770-1831), and his idealism he, in the principal book Uber den ursprung der kunstlerisschen tatigkeit, has ascertained that that the artist is in the history, and these words are the proof: “These stressed the rapport of man to word that surrounded. Because if every explication about the nature of creation of art are unsatisfactory, the unique hope of find a new solution to this old problem, it is to go back to rapport of man to the external word…”; it is certainly isn’t a daily problem, but purely intellectual and directly reportable to the critic of art; but who has read the art history during years and has read sometime, no certainly always, the ideal consideration of artist, it is an ease and surprise, because it preview usually that the idealization of artist is usual as false consideration. This new address of interpretation of art history, in opinion of Fiedler: “It want above all a change from origin in the conception of man to external word…”; it is further ascertainment of the artist is a man. I must also consider that this concept is repeated constantly for the book, and from original it become boring, but we must also think that the originality of this idea, then, was very important and represented a novity, because contrasted the dominant Hegel’s Idealism; and we can also consider that this consideration of humanity and historic nature of artist, Fiedler has translated in more interpretation, because he took the element of feel, this is sensation: “The human gender is able of sensations and perceptions, and he took only effects that he transformers to goods of conscience.”, it is the preclara indication that the humanity of artist, fortunately, is present and the artist, as everybody, is subject to feel and emotion, that he takes also from the society, that Fiedler not mentions but when he talks of artist in the history, he implied the society, hence the human gender.

Alessandro Lusana

 


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