I had planned to write this 39th article for La Licorne (The Unicorn) about an important episode in the Florentine Academy this year, but I decided to postpone it due to current events. It is not in my nature, nor is it my policy, to let myself be unsettled by "the noise of the world". If I am making this exception, it is because it is a significant one.

On March 1, 2022, the Italian writer Paolo Nori denounced the cancellation by the University of Milan-Bicocca of his course dedicated to the Russian writer Dostoevsky[3]. A curious coincidence, because if there is one literature that denounces the totalitarian temptation, it is that of Dostoevsky, as Koestler understood very well, and who even alluded to it in Darkness at Noon: "The question is whether the student Raskolnikov had the right to kill the old pawnbroker. He is yo