ESSAYS

Antonio Gramsci wrote unforgettable words in a paragraph of his entitled Le università italiane, applauding the fact that “every teacher tends to form a ‘school’ of his own”, concluding in the end that “this custom, save for sporadic cases of camorra, is beneficial”. Alas, I fear that in the post-’68 Italian University everything has degraded.…

I find myself obliged to argue more fully why the devil, after 38 years of honoured service, during which 92 issues came out, a first-tier journal, “Il Castello di Elsinore”, founded in 1988, has been unexpectedly abandoned even by the last of its six founders. I would say, in the first instance, because a cycle…