The Nobel Prize That Began with Poetry
How a childhood fascination with words and feeling led Karl Deisseroth from poetry to the human brain, and eventually to the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine Stefania Lucchetti © Stefania Lucchetti 2026 All rights reserved – This article can be linked to and mentioned but not copied On 5 October 2026, Karl Deisseroth was awarded the […]
GIFT GUIDE: which book to give as gift and to whom
Blind Corners Buy it on Amazon A fresh poetry collection which moves fluidly between clarity and depth, between disciplined thought and unguarded feeling. It is the perfect gift for the intellectual and reflective reader as well as the reader seeking emotion and reflection on life’s transitions and challenges. Poetry is Cyberpunk Buy it on […]
Penelope the Strategist: a Legal Perspective on Penelope
Penelope the Strategist: a Legal Perspective on Penelope Stefania Lucchetti © Stefania Lucchetti 2026 All rights reserved – This article can be linked to and mentioned but not copied Penelope has accompanied me for much of my life. As a young reader, I devoured mythology in all forms. I encountered her as a young actress as […]
To Trust or Not to Trust
To Trust or Not to Trust Stefania Lucchetti On promises, uncertainty, and the courage to rely on someone beyond ourselves. What does it mean to trust? We speak of trusting a partner, a friend, a colleague, an institution, an information source—or ourselves. Yet trust remains difficult to define: it involves feeling, judgment, and the courage […]
Attention is a form of prayer
“L’attention, poussée à son plus haut degré, est la même chose que la prière.” Simone Weil (La Pesanteur et la Grâce, 1947) (translation: “Attention, powered to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer“) The Discipline of Attention – Relevance and Freedom in the Digital Age A longer version of this article was first […]
Gustav Klimt’s Adam and Eve and Stefania Lucchetti’s Afternoons of Suspended Love
Cover art: Adam and Eve, Gustav Klimt 1917 (Belvedere Museum, Vienna) Afternoons of Suspended Love, by Italian contemporary poet Stefania Lucchetti is a bilingual (Italian and English side by side) book of love poems dedicated to marriage: not as an institution, but as a living encounter between two individuals who choose one another every […]
Art is the highest form of hope
Photo: Stefania Lucchetti, portrait by Italian art photographer Emma Terenzio The sentence “Art is the highest form of hope” is attributed to the German artist Gerhard Richter. Every time I read it again, I feel it vividly: I am more aware than ever that even on the most uncertain and dark days, the creative act is able […]
The face that launched a thousand ships
BUY “Penelope’s Web” by Stefania Lucchetti on Amazon The anticipation surrounding The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan’s new epic inspired by Homer’s poem, has reignited a debate that extends far beyond the world of cinema. The cast includes Matt Damon as Odysseus, Anne Hathaway as Penelope, Tom Holland as Telemachus, Zendaya as Athena, and Lupita Nyong’o as […]
Penelope’s Web
BUY “Penelope’s Web” by Stefania Lucchetti on Amazon About Penelope Long before I wrote the poems included in Penelope’s Web, Penelope had already become part of my imagination. She was the first character I ever portrayed on stage as a teenager, and the first figure from classical mythology to whom I dedicated a poem. I […]
Philosophy is a woman
Photo: Stefania Lucchetti, portrait by Italian art photographer Emma Terenzio Sea and thought These days I am by the sea with my children, just after the end of the school year. Our days unfold according to the sometimes demanding rhythm of light, water, and summer activities. It is a tangible world, made of bodies in […]