The cribs to imagine (and those to visit in Italy) in the newsletter of «la Lettura»- Corriere.it

More than two thousand years ago it was the shepherds, the last, simple people with open hearts, who were the first to receive the announcement of the birth of Jesus. And now? Who are today’s pastors? Eight hundred years after the first crib – the one set up in 1223 by San Francesco in Greccio -, the Reading asked biblical scholars, theologians, sociologists, anthropologists. Annachiara Sacchi’s article opens supplement #577, previewed on the App on Saturday 17th and on newsstands on Sunday 18th. And on Friday 16th, the newsletter arriving via email, anticipates some of the contents of the extensive service.

The Reading newsletter arrives on Fridays to those who wish to subscribe to the Reading App or to those who sign up here. The one on Friday 16 also offers a text by Stefano Bucci on the nativity scenes to visit in Italy during the holiday season. And the editors’ recommendations on what to read, watch and listen to in the next seven days. Digital readers will also find in the App the Theme of the Day, the digital-only extra-daily in-depth analysis: Friday 16, a focus by Ida Bozzi on friendships between writers, such as those between Italo Svevo and James Joyce or between Francis Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway .

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