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breviario /bre’vjarjo/ s. m. [dal lat. breviarium, der. Di brevis “breve”]. – 1. [trattazione breve: b. di estetica] ≈ compendio, sintesi, sommario. ‖ riassunto. 2. a. (eccles.) [libro liturgico di salmi, inni e preghiere, ordinati secondo le ore del giorno] ≈ libro d’ore, ufficio (divino). b. (fig.) [testo a cui si attribuisce un valore assoluto, paradigmatico e sim.] ≈ bibbia, testo sacro, vangelo.

In english breviary [ /ˈbriːviəri/ noun – a book containing the words of the service for each day in the Roman Catholic church]. It’s an italian word coming from latin breviarium. Besides being used in a sacred sense, it means summary, short treatment, table of contents.

The size and complexity of the short format also translates into a submerged world that perhaps nobody knows in depth. We decided to create a new section of the site to share splinters of views that we experience first-hand or suggested by friends and colleagues. It is a space for reflection, discussion and divertissement.

Without precise deadlines, or a calendar, the field will be freely determined by the moment; by the suggestions of a vision or a reading, of a festival experience or a discussion with someone from the community of the short format. Short will also be the spontaneus texts, which will be divided into five categories: