Francesco Medici
Articles and Reviews Published for La rivista di Arablit
Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet Reread through its Twelve Illustrations
Articolo della rivista, Anno X, numero 19, giugno 2020
Famous Lebanese-American poet Kahlil Gibran was also a very talented painter. Like many of his other books in Arabic and in English, The Prophet includes some of his most charming and inspiring paintings and drawings. This article, far from being an art essay in a technical sense, aims to point [...]
Figli dei cedri in America. Il carteggio tra Ğubrān Ḫalīl Ğubrān e Amīn Fāris al-Rīḥānī
Articolo della rivista, Anno I, numero 1, giugno 2011
The few letters that Ğubrān and al-Rīḥānī wrote to each other - and which are published for the first time in Italian within this article - show the common interest of the two intellectuals in promoting a campaign to reawaken the sense of freedom and independence from Ottoman rule and [...]