Wandering through this Dutch city, a place scarred by the past yet hungry for the future. Today it is the beating heart of European architecture, and aims to overtake Amsterdam as a leading tourist destination

In the first half of the year, sales of the poem in Italy saw an overall increase of 25 per cent, spread across 43 different editions. The reprints by Einaudi and Ippocampo, which, as reported in Il Foglio, state: “The film has brought back into the limelight one of the seminal works of our literary culture, all too often confined to the confines of the classroom.”

In 2004, ‘Odysseus’ was released, Guccini’s take on the Odyssey. Rather than recounting the return to Ithaca, the song tells the story of a ‘peasant’ Odysseus driven out to sea by a desire for knowledge. It is a reflection on the constant tension between the desire to set out and the desire to return, on nostalgia, on restlessness and on the impossibility of finding a permanent home. “From a lyrical point of view, one of the best songs I’ve ever written,” said Guccini

The American translator savaged the film adaptation of Homer’s poem and “crashed the magazine’s website and fuelled a debate about the balance between commercial success and literary authenticity”, writes The New York Times