Rome [ENA] Chinese businessperson, journalist and writer, Hu Lanbo was born in Manchuria and moved to Europe in the 80s. Today she lives in Rome where she also created the bilingual magazine "China in Italy" (Cina in Italia). A weekly magazine with a clear-cut goal: to make China known to all those Chinese born in Italy who do not speak Chinese anymore and to function as a bridge to improve integration and relationships between   [Full story...]

Rome [ENA] In West-East Divan (1819), Germany’s greatest poet J. W. von Goethe presented a work of eternal fascination. Inspired by the Divan (“Collection”) by medieval poet Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī known by his pen name Hafez, Goethe combined his own identity with that of the Persian Sufi master who sang the delights of wine and tavern romance in a context of Qur’anic allusion.   [Full story...]