Curiositas.Liubopytstvo - Mangel' A.

For centuries, the need to make discoveries has encouraged people to move forward. The impulse expressed by the Latin word CURIOSITAS makes the inquisitive mind constantly ask questions, pushing to search for answers: why are we here ? what drives everyone? What's next? CURIOSITAS as a "desire to know" is a natural curiosity that engages us in an endless and painstaking process of cognition.
According to Alberto Mangel, the explanation for many obscure phenomena can be found in books that for centuries have taken everything that people have learned about the world, consciously or intuitively. One of the most important books for the author was "Divine Comedy ". Dante Alighieri's poem summarizes the tragic experience of mankind and echoes the motifs in the works of other authors and eras, from antiquity to modern times. Works by Socrates and Plato, sacred writings, texts by Thomas Aquinas, Lewis Carroll, Franz Kafka and Primo Levy, or the language of modern...