This essay explores the subject of the aversion of intellectuals to the market economy through a study of the Italian cinema of the early 1960s. The impact of Italy's ‘economic miracle’ on coeval cinema can hardly be overemphasized. Not only it inspired well-known art films, such as Federico...

Il presente saggio contiene una disamina e valutazione dell’attività di Pasquale Jannaccone come opinion maker mediante un’analisi degli editoriali pubblicati su “La Nuova Stampa”. Dopo un breve profilo scientifico dell’autore, vengono affrontati tre elementi relativi al suo lavoro di...

In 2011, Edoardo Nesi - a former industrialist of the Prato textile district - won the most prestigious Italian literary Prize for his autobiographical novel Storia della mia gente, a book centered upon Prato's past industrial success and present decline. Nesi has since become a regular...