TZIA ANGIULLINA Tzia Angiullina fut tzopa, portat una camba prus crutza de s'atra e caminat cun su matzucu, unu bastoni che su de su dotori, ma de arredelu. Tzia Angiullina portat sa scriminera in mesu, si ndi biiat un' arrogheddu de asuta de su mucadori colori de cafeu. Is dentis de tzia Angiullina fiant mannas che palias de forru, ma biancas che sa ni, e candu arriiat pariant luxentis. Ma tzia Angiullina no arriiat giai mai a buca aberta, arriiat a buca serrada, arriiat cun is ogus. Sa buca de tzia Angiullina fut manna, ma is labras non fiant grussas ne arrubias, fiant de su colori de sa faci,atza, de su colori de sa luna. A bor...

TITULU Una ………………. portat in ……………………………………… una farrancada de ……………….………………. Ndi dd’ iat arrutu unu. Sa ………………. ndi ddu boliat boddiri, ma nd' iat spaniau prus de binti. Ndi ddus iat ai bofius boddiri totus, ma ndi ddi fiant arrutus giai totus. Sa .................................. tandus si fiat arrennegada meda. Nc' iat fuliau totu su ………………. e si fut fuia, si nci fiat apiddicada cun lestresa a pitzus de una ………………………………. e sartendu de una nai a s’atra, nemus dd' iat bia prus. L. Tolstoi ■ In custu contu mancant unus cantu fueddus, a pustis chi dd' as ligiu beni prova a i-scriri is fueddus chi, segundu tui, mancant e po...

In the intricate high jungle of the Cusco region, there are several fascinating archaeological sites that were used in ancient times as fortified citadels or agricultural and residential centers. One such site is the enigmatic Miraflores, which I had the opportunity to explore and study in September 2011 with the Deyermenjian group. This non-fortified citadel was likely built and used by pre-Inca people for agricultural purposes in ancient times, possibly to supply soldiers guarding the farthest limits of the Huari empire, near the frontier with the Amazonian lowlands (specifically the watershed between the Yavero River valley and the Mad...

The Machiguenga people are living in southeastern Peru, in the valley of the Urubamba River (Cusco Region), and Upper Madre de Dios River. They speak an arawak language and in total are 9000 people. The first time I had contact with these indigenous people was in 2008, when one of them escorted me to the Pusharo petroglyphs, a masterful engraved rock which origin or meaning none of them can explain. In their language, the word "Machiguenga" means "people". Anyone who does not belong to the same ethnicity is considered as "other", whether he is indigenous (e.g. Mashco Piro, Nahua or Ashaninka), or Peruvian or foreigner. According to the mo...

The site of Espiritu Pampa, near Vilcabamba, was known to historians until recently as a refuge for the last rulers resisting Spanish conquest. The last of these, Tupac Amaru I, was captured and executed in Vilcabamba in 1572, marking the official end of Huascar’s lineage. The Vilcabamba kingdom and its ruins remained forgotten for over 300 years until 1892, when Peruvians Manuel Ugarte, Manuel Lopez Torres, and Juan Cancio Saavedra reached the site of Hatun Wilca Pampa. The ruins were later studied by Hiram Bingham in 1911, but Antonio Santander Casselli identified Espiritu Pampa as the true Vilcabamba in 1959. Casselli returned to the s...

A SHORT ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY The city and parish Church of St. Nicholas was founded around 1165. The church was located at the intersection of two important north-south, east-west trade routes. It was dedicated to Nicholas, the medieval patron saint of merchants and wholesalers. Even today it is still situated among office buildings in the city centre with its doors open to visitors from all over the world. The church was originally built in the Romanesque architectural style prominently displayed on the western facade. In the early 16th Century the building was extended to form a late Gothic hall church and has retained this shape up t...

Seulo, il murale che celebra l'istruzione universitaria in Sardegna, che tra gli anni sessanta e settanta, aveva il più alto numero di laureati d'Italia. . . A Seulo, un paesino di neanche 800 abitanti nella provincia del Sud Sardegna, si trova un bellissimo murale chiamato "Il laureato". Raffigura un giovane uomo vestito con abiti tradizionali sardi, con in mano il testo di una tesi di laurea. L'opera realizzata nel 2020 dall'artista Mauro Patta, celebra l'altissimo numero di laureati che Seulo aveva tra gli anni sessanta e settanta del secolo scorso. In proporzione al numero di abitanti, aveva il numero più alto di l...

The Chavin de Huantar civilization developed around 1500 BCE at the confluence of the Puccha and Mariash rivers, tributaries of the Marañon, approximately 3,150 meters above sea level in the present-day Ancash department of Peru. The origins of the theocratic Chavin culture remain the subject of heated debates. Archaeologist J.C. Tello suggested that the culture’s roots lay in Amazonian cultures, based in part on discoveries at the Kotosh temple near Huanuco. Archaeologists Evans and Mayers proposed that Chavin ceramics had connections with certain artifacts from the Valdivia site in Chile and even with Neolithic jars from Japan’s Jomon c...

SABUDU BINTISETI DE SU MESI DE LADAMINI Arribu a domu a pustis bessìa de i-scola: in bàsciu est totu prenu de acua e de ludu, foras che in cuxina: a innia s'acua non nc' est intrada. Fabiola sa picioca chi trabàllat in domu mia, no est bestia cumenti de is atras dis : pòrtat is botas e sa canadesi. Mama puru est bestia cumenti de issa. Cumenti ddas biu, mi benit su disigiu de mi ponni is botas e sa canadesi e andu, dereta dereta, a mi cuncordari. Arremangada fintzas a coddus e pronta a illimpiai, m' atùu sa scova e cumentzu a nci bogari s'acua. Ma seu troppu strama... fatzu feti arroris: nci portu s'acua fintzas e anca...

SIDORU Sidoru est unu gatu pitieddeddu e est sempri alligru. Candu andu a su giardinu miu d'agatu o sartendu o gioghendu cun sa mama. A bortas mi tìmit puita nci ddu portu sempri aintru, a cuxina, e ddu fatzu baddai. Tandus si ponit a meulai. Portat una faci simpatica e bellixedda. Sidoru tenit medas fradis e cun issus non cuncòrdat mèda. Una dìri fiat andau a pitzus de su letu de sorri mia e si fut dromiu. Candu sorri mia dd' ìdat biu, Sidoru si fiat postu a passillai in s'aposentu. Est unu gatu masedu, si fait frandigai, fintzas e chi a bortas mèulat. Est unu gatixeddu chi no i- scarrafiat e no est aresti. Sciendu ca is gatu...