Characters

Five persons gone around a city very great and seen every guy met, they looked face and after they asked about their nature; somebody answered and other though and after continued his walk thinking that this person was crazy. A woman stopped other woman and asked: “What is your nature?”, and woman very astonish for this question answered: “I am very polite and sweet, and I love my family. Why do you want know it?”, and Catherine, this is name of person answered: “I am searching a woman is like me. But you aren’t it, thank you”, and woman continued his shopping. Other woman, Sabine, interviewed other woman and asked: “I think that your character is very sweet, or not?”, woman, much bothered, answered: “Not absolutely! I am very nasty and impolite, turd and bastard; if you want so, very well, otherwise you can fuck you!”, and Sabine: “You are perfect! Very perfect!” ,and woman: “I can represent you”, this answer astonished much Sabine, but she answered: “Yes, you can make it now!”, and Catherine while found other woman and she asked: “You are very beautiful and very vain, you can certainly be me and I can be you, what do you think?”, and woman that was very vain, answered: “Yes, I can be you and perfectly performance you when I want do it; therefore I will be you!”. Elisabeth also made same thing and she found her character; so Helen found her person and finally Delia found a woman that was intelligent and intellectual, and she known Latin and ancient Greek and philosophy and history, and she wanted work to low; therefore, she was Public Prosecutor; then everybody has had her character. Valery talked: “We can be these characters because we can performance these persons in theatre, since we are alone character and we found our correspondent in reality. A woman that would be model to character answered: “Contrary beloved Delia, we are your character and you are models” and Delia asked: “This is theatre and this is choreography”, and woman: “No absolutely, this is reality and we are alone characters, therefore you must sit and you must look us, because we will performance you, and you that are character will be model to reality”, and Delia asked: “Why?”, and woman: “Because you are character then false person, but we are reality and we are most false than you; it is that happens in reality; therefore you are most reality than us, because you are a reality, a fiction, then you have a reality, a role, on contrary we are searching models to live therefore we are everybody and nobody. Now you can sit and you can look this performance.” Light were turn off and recital started.

Alessandro Lusana                                                   

The first painting of Girolamo Siciolante and a homage of 17^th century

I have seen this painting(Figg.1-6), with Immaculate conception, commission of Caetani family, and once in church of saint Mary of Conception, Sermoneta, today restored for will of don Leonard Mary Pompei, parish priest of Sermoneta. I have given back this painting much time ago and now, I confirm this opinion, because every stylistical character remembers Girolamo Siciolante(1521-1575): the hands of Virgin are mirror to hands of a female figure in Birth of Adonis(Fig.2), the nose is similar, and cloth is mirror to second painting of Girolamo, Virgin, Child and saints Stephan and Pieter(Fig.3),Caetani castle in Sermoneta, same density of cloth and same pleats, same cloth that we find again in mentioned painting (Fig.4); it is character that will best to other paintings, but I consider this work of Siciolante because this painting was considered by Giorgio Vasari as one of first painting that Siciolante worked; but interesting to my hypothesis is the words of Vasari, in fact he used plural and he said: “Among first paintings that he worked alone..”, I repeat, Vasari uses plural “first paintings”, therefore beyond painting for Caetani, he has worked other painting, may before this painting to Caetani; then this painting with Immaculate conception(Fig.1) can be the first, and second is painting to abbey of Valvisciolo(Fig.4), now in Caetani castle; and considering stylistical character, certainly this painting is first, because these characters are very next to second painting(Fig.4). Homage that I mentioned is on contrary by other painter that has worked in Sermoneta this is Bernardino Cesari(1565-1621), brother of most famous Cavalier d’Arpino, Bernardino worked some painting in choir of cathedral of Sermoneta(Fig.5), and he certainly took idea to composition by a painting of Siciolante this is The birth of Virgin(Fig.6) in Fugger chapel at church of saint Mary of Soul, Rome, Italy; in fact composition is very similar, we must consider that Bernardino has had a wall very long, on contrary Siciolante has had very small space, therefore Bernardino could enlarge scene, but similar is composition: the bed is same, door on left, on first plane figures are together with one on left, one figure is kneeled down on right, and same position has woman on middle, one woman on left as painting of Sermoneta; this painting of Siciolante has suggested composition to Bernardino that wanted give homage to Siciolante because costumer was Alessandro Americi, from Sermoneta that wanted this paintings at 1603.

Alessandro Lusana

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It is increasing catalogue:Vincenzo Fabrici

On the vault of sacristy of cathedral of Sermoneta are some painting, that now are not ascribed by critical studies, but I think for stylistical motives that these painting are certainly of Vincenzo Fabrici; I have considered this painter some time and I have ascribed some painting, and now I give back to Fabrici these painting because it are, may, first work in Sermoneta; in fact stylistical nature of Fabrici is very youthful and he, now, anticipates his stylistical culture, that he adopted to other painting in Sermoneta; anyway first document to Fabrici is a payment at 1759 in Sermoneta, to a painting and style is very better in confront of these painting; but some particular let that we consider both age and autography of Fabrici: then eyebrow as flowing hair of saint John(Fig.1) are equal to Christ blessing in Diocesan Museum of Sermoneta(Fig.2), although better to quality, it is equal to other blowing hair this is, other Christ blessing in Cori(Fig.3) and other painting in same cathedral of Sermoneta with other Christ(fig.4); every Christ is equal to eyebrow, the noses are equal to all painting, although to later painting is better, but essential character is same, rightness and long. Therefore all paintings are paternal attribution and this is interesting because catalogue of a painter, unknown, now has some work, because also other painting on same vault as saint Mark and saint Matthew(Figg.5-7), that are same hand.

Alessandro Lusana

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Academy of crazies

George called Socrates was a doctor with specialization on psychological disturbs and other pathologies; he repeated that we are other gender of crazies, because we think that we live in normal health condition; his colleagues laughed with these judgments, and he known it but he laughed to them; therefore he was also a passion reader of philosophy, and he red on much books that in Europe very much cultural club were called academy; therefore he checked much town with this name and just he red again what he known perfectly, therefore that name academy is from ancient Greek, and other academies were born during ancient past in Greek land, and after  Italian Renaissance and other academies in Europe. George decided that he founded a academy, but very particular, academy of crazies; every member can say what he want, and give every question; therefore during a briefing with other members he told with a member and he asked: “After your death do you want that people will remember you?”, and Albert, this name of member: “Yes I want that everybody remember me”, and George: “Does somebody has known you remember you now?” and Albert: “I don’t know” and George: “You want that everybody remember you but now very little persons know that you live, and other don’t know it? They not will remember you, because they don’t know that you live” and Albert: “For it I want that everybody remember me, because all know that I have been present”, and George: “It’s right, but you must be known now, so that all remember you after”, and Albert: “Yes”, and George: “Do you have never known Napoleon?”, and Albert: “Yes certainly!”, but do you: “Do you have never been know on person Napoleon?”, and George: “But you remember and you studied Napoleon”, and Albert: “Yes”, and George: “Therefore we will be remember for our worked”, and Albert: “Certainly!”, and George turned to other member of academy and: “Sorry, do you remember Napoleon?”, and this member: “Not, who is?”, and George: “Thank you”, and he was continuing: “May he didn’t red same your books, but it is strange, also very important and historical personality somebody doesn’t know, and certainly Napoleon is more important than you”, and Albert: “If he didn’t red history book is normal that he doesn’t knows Napoleon”, and George: “Aristoteles didn’t know Napoleon, and Aristoteles has red”, and Albert: “But Aristoteles born much before than Napoleon, then is impossible that he known Napoleon”, and George: “Yes but Napoleon didn’t know Aristoteles”, and Albert: “Then?”, and George: “Therefore to be known is momentary, because after everybody will don’t remember you, never; we are at a moment and we live at moment, after all forget us”, and Albert: “Then?”, and George: “Therefore is better that nobody knows than somebody don’t will remember us, because after some moment we are disappeared”. Then Albert said: “You have made very great thing because you have found this academy, because you and other present are crazy”, and George: “Yes, certainly!”   

Alessandro Lusana

Freedom and indipendence

(To my Delia so that of love she hear arduous sentences )

Arthur was a professor of a course of philosophy a model other student, a Socrates today’s, very intelligent and sagacious; he sees all with different eyes, he considered that we could see everything with an interpretation and with other think, this is with other look; in fact he asked always his friends, very little, because he has fame of complicated person and very bother, but he not was so but willing think alone, therefore he give questions to everybody, students, professors, janitors, custodians, principals and others, and he asked always same question: “What is freedom and independence?”, all refused answer and they gone away, somebody stopped him but after he answered: “Not difference”, but Arthur was unsatisfied, this trays were until when somebody, a girl student asked to Arthur: “What’s difference?”, and Arthur answered: “I don’t know!”, and student: “You know it, and you must explain it now!”, Arthur was astonished by this ask, and he said: “Freedom is possibility make what you want, to follow your will, your aspiration, your dreams”, and girl: “Yes, very well, and independence?”, and Arthur: “Everybody thinks that is same thing, but really they are very different”, and girl: “Why?”, and Arthur: “Because independence not is”, and girl: “Why?”, and Arthur: “Freedom is possibility that we have make something, but independence is impossible, because we have a dependence always!”, and girl: “Why?”, Arthur then: “We depend both material and immaterial thing”, and girl: “What are these?”, and Arthur: “We think that we are independent when we have a gain”, and girl: “Certainly!”, and Arthur: “On contrary not!”, and girl: “Why?”, and Arthur: “Because we depend by somebody, at work we depend by employer, at school we depend by teacher or professor, our vote is by teacher or professor, our life depends by job and gain, therefore we have two dependences, one job and second gain”, and girl: “These are material dependences”, and Arthur: “Yes”, and girl: “What are immaterial?” and Arthur: “Immaterial are those things that we don’t see but they are present between our life, those rules not written we respect, this is conventions or conformism, we don’t see it but this is present, and it is very great, but in conformity with told of Musil: “The monument is so big but nobody sees it; we don’t consider that follow convention is useless”, and girl: “But we can follow our spirit and will” and Arthur: “Yes, but our will and spirit are conditioned by convention, then it depends by convention, and we don’t say something because is very contrary use, then conventions, therefore we don’t say and make something because not are used; then we depend by use, but…”, and girl: “But?”, and Arthur: “Convention depends by us!”, and girl: “Why?”, and Arthur: “Because we make convention, and it survives until we will, because when we change convention this falls, when we change habit, convention falls, therefore we depend by conventions e conventions depend by us; therefore nobody is independent, above all who says that he is so”. Arthur then asked girl: “What’s your name?” and girl: “Philosophy as first name and last name Logic, and today I have learned what is human gender, thank you”, and she disappeared like was appeared.

Alessandro Lusana 

Interest and disinterestedness to Cicero

I am not a specialist of ancient culture or Cicero, but I remember very well my course of Latin language during my school years; but somebody, this is my husband, wanted that I write this assay; the First discourse against Catiline usually called to Latin language In Catilinam is a sign of dangerous moment to ancient Rome, and Cicero was used by senators to ovoid that Catiline take power; but it is important that Rome during 64 b.C. lived a moment very precarious, and Catiline was a danger and deeply felt is showed by first words of Cicero: “Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?”, this is: “Till do will you abuse our patience, Catiline?”, naturally we must consider that word patience in Latin language is English to bear, therefore is serious form of our word. But we must consider also that much senators during this time were very next to Cicero, therefore very friends, but after condemn of Catiline these friends disappeared; this is normal to political behaviour, men join somebody when they have need, but after they will disappeared; in fact Cicero after condemn of Catiline was exiled in Cilicia by Caesar, because he was a danger to Caesar, whose Cicero was very opponent; Cicero during his exile written The friendship, book that said a human truly; this is when men need they are next but when they don’t need they are very distant, in fact it is very meaningful that this book is written by Cicero after condemn of Catiline, this is when Cicero made his task, when Cicero has been useful, and we can seen his regret during red; he shows episodes of true friends, and we can think he tough how much senators have had showed friendship to him but after they are disappeared; therefore ancient examples are very opportune to our time.

To my husband

Delia Mariani

                                      

Citizen realism of Canaletto

The realism is a cultural address that we can know among many cultural matters, literature above all Russian, French and Italian, also in painting with Caravaggio, Ribera, Velazquez, Rubens and others, but I want consider an Italian painter, Antonio Canal called Canaletto(1697-1768), Venetian painter, son of a painter, and very famous during 18^th century both in Italy and British, above all to his portrait of city of Venice; towns and other places or camp tower and moments of Venice during 18^th century; but I want consider that the realism of Canaletto is predominant because he presents true human gender to his painting, daily moments and true social classes, that we can recognize to cloth; therefore very much paintings were to English commitments, he reports therefore the life in Venice, moments very holyday Bucintoro goes back to wharf at day of Assumption(Fig.1), but also at day daily Saint Mark place(Fig.2). The realism of Canaletto is permanent and he used this address  during his stay in British, where he worked same concept to painting, human and social realism(Figg.3-4). We must consider that Canaletto worked in Rome with his father to scenery, because his father was scene-designer, therefore he shows real image of a city or other during his job in theatre, therefore he was habited to image of reality. To his drawings(Figg.5-8) he presents towns of Venice in drawing to show it to his commitment, this is what will be image of town; it is normal to painter, but this process to work manifests more that image of town is important therefore it is document of Venice that some tourist has seen. I think that Canaletto have to shows life in Venice to show it to British tourist, in fact much painting were aimed to tourists and Canaletto with some acquaintance as Joseph Smith entrepreneur and collections of book and painting and much influencing on British art merchant; therefore an agent to Canaletto and collection of his painting, therefore painter has showed the life in Venice with his moments and his human characters, may a presentation of human gender to aristocracy, this is motive to realism.

Alessandro Lusana    

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