Publisher: Ediciclo

Introduces Giuseppe D'Emilio, writer and professor at the “Panzini” Institute of Senigallia

Halfway between narrative reportage of travel and map of the soul, Balkan Circus is an experience, a journey into the breath of a colorful and amazing world. A prose which knows Kusturica and Goran Bregovic, weddings and funerals: the Balkans in sweet and sour sauce. Balkan Circus is a journey of the soul that winds through the Balkans, meaning almost legendary epicenter of a Europe still to be explored, which starts from Slovenia and reaches the Caucasus and Siberia, through the Tatra mountains. Floramo gives birth to a set of intersections that arise from the discovery of special people, extraordinary fellow adventurers. Meetings at times touching, others grotesque or ironic, hilarious and improbable, greedy or amazing. The places he describes become almost legendary, according to the story that they know how to narrate, for the energy running through them.

Angelo Floramo was born in Udine in 1966. Friulian, Mixed Race, is Balkan father's side. Medievalist by training, he has published several critical essays, monographs and scientific articles in national and international journals. He teaches humanities at the Technical Institute of Gemona Marchetti (Ud). He is director of the Library Guarneriana di San Daniele (UD).

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Introduces Giuseppe D'Emilio, writer and professor at the “Panzini” Institute of Senigallia

The Italian cuisine has accepted processes and ingredients from all over the world, to reinvent them and make them their own, building, around the food, a unique culture and a collective identity. Because the kitchen is always contamination and improves traveling and meeting the different.
The size of the Italian genius was - and still is - in reinterpreting the exotic, mix it with the homemade and then spread it all over the world.
The journalist Alessandro Marzo Magno thus reveals the surprising origins of the great protagonists of Italian gastronomy: we learn that the pasta has Arabic origins, the pizza was prepared by the ancient Greeks, and that when we have breakfast at the bar with coffee and croissant, we taste a Turkish drink accompanied by a sweet that symbolizes the Ottoman flag.

Alessandro Marzo Magno is a journalist, has been several times in the Balkans during the conflict that has ravaged former Yugoslavia. He was, for ten years, responsible of Foreign Affairs of the weekly "Diario" (Diary). He works with "Focus Storia" (Focus History) and the website of "Sole 24 Ore".

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