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Spirit of Rhaetia: The Call of the Holy Mountains

Intertwined with the tantalizing, never-ending quest for a man's own roots and sense of self, the novel narrates the mysterious, epic story of the ancient people of the Alps, the untold history of mythical Rhaetia: a land largely identified with the Rhaetian Alps, a country that in 600 B.C. comprised what is today’s central and south-west Switzerland, Grisons and Ticino, Liechtenstein, the entire Tyrol and Vorarlberg in Austria, Valtellina in the north of Lombardy, and the Adige valley in Italy. At the time of the Roman conquest it extended to parts of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg states in Germany, south of the river Danube, including the territories of the Vindelici people, who occupied the northern part of Rhaetia and whose chief town was Augusta Vindelicorum (Augsburg).
Arguably, it is the human lamp itself, the fire of sheer existence, the barrier to our reconnection with the powerful forces of nature, and the beyond world, that of ancestry. What is it today the Spirit of Rhaetia? Does it still exist? Or was it just a dream in the darkness of the night that turned into fire, exhausted itself, and faded into oblivion?
Our times are doomed, as we are presently confronted with the most powerful forces that blind our eyes, drain our strength, turn us into mere cannon fodder at the mercy of the demons of modernity. Like never before, a man's soul screams for freedom, his very flesh and bones ache for truth; his scorching thirst for meaning is unutterable and unbearable; he seeks for the burning sun, the cool moon, the glimmering skies, the very earth that never changed; he turns to the land of the ancestors for salvation, thus he turns to the everlasting and everstanding mountains.
Now, one man will ascend them one last time, to rejoin his ancestors and meet the Almighty God.

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Carducci Essentials: the Poems of Giosuè Carducci Translated in English

 

Translated in English, with original text in Italian.

Giosuè Carducci, (born July 27, 1835, Val di Castello, near Lucca, Tuscany [now Italy]—died Feb. 16, 1907, Bologna, Italy), Italian poet, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1906, and one of the most influential literary figures of his age.

The son of a republican country doctor, Carducci spent his childhood in the wild Maremma region of southern Tuscany. He studied at the University of Pisa and in 1860 became professor of Italian literature at Bologna, where he lectured for more than 40 years. He was made a senator for life in 1890 and was revered by the Italians as a national poet.

Carducci Essentials: the Poems of Giosuè Carducci Translated in English, Published by LiteraryJoint.

The latest translation of the work of  Giosuè Carducci.

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Jetsun Milarepa: The Songs of Milarepa (Italian Edition and Portuguese Edition)

Jetsun Milarepa: I Canti di Milarepa (Italian Edition: I Canti di Milarepa) on Amazon and Kobo.

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Milarepa, (born 1040—died 1123), , one of the most famous and beloved of Tibetan Buddhist masters (Siddha). His life and accomplishments are commemorated in two main literary works.

The first is a biography by the “Mad Yogin of Tsang” that chronicles the major events in his life from birth, to Enlightenment, to death. According to this work, Milarepa studied black magic in his younger years in an attempt to gain revenge on a wicked uncle who had stripped his mother and sister of all their property, after having previously promised to look after them when Milarepa’s father died. After a series of successful acts of destruction and revenge against his uncle and other family members, Milarepa is said to have undergone a crisis of conscience. Soon afterward, he sought out various Tibetan Buddhist masters, finally gaining acceptance as a full-fledged disciple under the guidance of the Tibetan master Marpa, founder of the Bka’-brgyud-pa sect. The lengthy relationship between Marpa and Milarepa is a significant element in the biography, since it emphasizes the necessity of, and intimate trust that develops in the student-disciple relationship in VajrayānaBuddhism. After his years of study with Marpa were completed, Milarepa sought out remote, isolated mountain retreats in which he practiced rigorous meditation, only occasionally would he visit Marpa. Milarepa continued the Bka’-brgyud-pa line, converting and teaching many disciples.

The second work of commemoration is a collection of Tantric songs entitled The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, which express the nature of Buddhist teaching. They also expand upon the climate and conditions of Milarepa’s mountain ascetic retreats as well as the intense labors and ultimate joys of the ascetic life.

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August in Chuang Yen

Quietly the evening falls, through leafy trees coolly a breeze blows, the peaceful night comes in high glees.   A deep fullness hovers all around  one guess is descending from other worlds; the moon is a buoy, yellow and round, to perfect stillness in the firmaments.   Memories settle their own slime, the pot-bellied jug full and wise: it shall not be another Spring-time, when accomplished is the holy life.    Chuang Yen Monastery, Carmel, NY,  August 2005      Read the book Jersey Blues

The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi, Translated in English

Giacomo Leopardi (b. June 29, 1798, Recanati, Papal States—d. June 14, 1837, Naples) was a poet, a literary scholar, a philosopher, an essayist, and a philologist. His outstanding works and superb lyric poetry granted him a perennial place among the greatest writers of the 19th century.

The collection of Poems of Giacomo Leopardi. 

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Content:

To Italy 
On Dante’s Monument 
To Angelo Mai 
To His Sister Paolina
To a Victor in the Game of Pallone
The Younger Brutus 
To the Spring
Hymn to the Patriarchs
The Last Song of Sappho 
First Love
The Lonely Sparrow 
The Infinite 
The Evening of the Holiday 
To The Moon 
The Dream 
The Lonely Life 
Consalvo 
To the Beloved 
To Count Carlo Pepoli 
The Resurrection 
To Sylvia 
Recollections 
Night-Song of a Wandering Shepherd in Asia 
Calm after Storm 
The Village Saturday-Night 
The Ruling Thought 
Love and Death 
To Himself 
Aspasia 
On an Old Sepulchral Bas-Relief 
On the Portrait of a Beautiful Woman 
Palinodia 
The Setting of the Moon
The Ginestra 
Imitation
Scherzo 
Fragments