Guido Mina Di Sospiro

About the Author

Guido Mina di Sospiro was raised in Milan, Italy. An award-winning novelist and essayist, he has written several books, including The Forbidden Book, coauthored with Joscelyn Godwin. He maintains a blog on Reality Sandwich and for New English Review. He lives with his wife between the Washington, DC, area and central Italy.

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Of Cannibals, Inquisitors, Mainstream Militants & Escape Artists

By Guido Mina Di Sospiro

From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 12 No 1 (Feb 2018) Recently re-reading St. Augustine’s Confessions, written over sixteen hundred years ago, I was struck by one aspect that had previously eluded me: the authors he refers to are, for […]

Evolution Upside-Down: History is Cyclical, Not Linear

By Guido Mina Di Sospiro

From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 12 No 3 (June 2018) Charles Darwin possessed some characteristics which greatly endear him to me. He was an ‘amateur’, not a professional, making it clear that an all-consuming thirst for knowledge is a […]