prehistory and history in «la Lettura», formerly in the App-Corriere.it

A small difference makes the Sapiens, that is us, unique compared to the primates and the extinct Neanderthals. She found out the team of the Nobel Prize for Medicine 2022 Svante Pääbo and Telmo Pievani and Giuseppe Remuzzi explain it in the article that opens the new issue of «la Lettura», #574, on Saturday 26 November in the App (downloadable from the App Store and Google Play) and from Sunday 27 on newsstands. The credit, explain the two popularizers, goes to only one amino acid, out of 540, which transforms the lysine protein into arginine: the latter is more capable of increasing the density of particular brain structures.

After paleogenetics, other marvels from “just” 3 thousand years ago: the papyrus that certifies the first strike in history and will be one of the stars of the Classical Festival of Turin (December 1-4); you will talk about it in the meeting on Sunday 4 with the philologist Luciano Canfora, Christian Greco, director of the Egyptian Museum of Turin, and the Egyptologist Rita Lucarelli; the dialogue between Canfora and Greco on the supplement, edited by Annachiara Sacchi, anticipates the meeting and reconstructs the workers’ proposal testified by the papyrus.

In Books, the new translation by Alberto Cristofori of theSpoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters (from December 5 in bookstores, La nave di Teseo), and the comparison with the translations of Antonio Porta and Fernanda Pivano; Roberto Galaverni writes about it. It narrates the return from the bloody war to the peace of the house and the snow the story of the American writer Ron Rash (his book Earth of shadow, just published by La Nuova Frontiera). In the Looks, all the art exhibitions of the London season, visited by «la Lettura» in just 36 hours, in the article by Stefano Bucci. The Theme of the Day, an extra daily focus on Saturday 26 November in the App, is also dedicated to art: Paolo Conti talks about the artists who painted the last ones, from Caravaggio to Van Gogh.

Nelle Maschere, the conversation curated by Cecilia Bressanelli on Santa Chiara: the comparison between Susanna Nicchiarelli, director of the film Clear, and the nun Cristiana Dobner, both graduates in Philosophy, returns an unconventional image of the saint of Assisi, also studied by the medievalist Chiara Frugoni, who died in April (to whose memory the film is dedicated). Closes number one noir-tinged dialogue curated by Severino Colombo; the married writers Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril and Alexander Ahndoril, who under the pseudonym of Lars Kepler sign Spider’s Revenge (Longanesi), converse on co-writing and the nature of evil with another couple of crime writers, Marco Malvaldi and Samantha Bruzzone (He who hesitates is lostSellerius).

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