Popular Non-Fiction

Afrodite viaggia leggera

(Aphrodite Travels Light. Following the Course of Love)

Ponte alle Grazie, June 2024, pp.192

The goddess of love and a timeless female icon reveals the mystery of desire in a journey through time and space, to the roots of literature, women’s imagination and love.

A journey to the Classical Mediterranean – Sicily, Rome, Troy, Trebizond, Cyprus, Athens, Corinth, Ischia, Milos and Kythira – to follow the feats of Aphrodite, the most ancient among goddesses, born after Uranuses’s genitals were tossed into the sea off the coast of Kythira. The story of her many love affairs and those she created with her extraordinary power, which was also made up of magical items, like the enchanted belt that could make any woman who wore it alluring and irresistible.

Ponte alle Grazie, June 2024, pp.192

Francesca Sensini

Francesca Sensini was born in Genoa in 1974. After graduating in Classics, she taught at a number of universities in France and is currently a lecturer in Italian Studies at the University of the Côte d’Azur. She is obstinately convinced that Greek myths, so distant, are relevant to our modern lives, and that the rocks of that sea conceal the sense of the sacred that we have lost. Ponte alle Grazie has already published her first novel La versione di Elena (Helen’s Version, 2023).

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