The flame has become a sign of authenticity for Fratelli D’Italia, one of the few enduring icons through decades of political chameleonism. To have the flame means, in some ways, that you are the true descendants of Mussolini’s MSI and, thus, of the Duce himself.
Italy today is synonymous with football, but it wasn’t always so — historically, a great variety of bat-and-ball games enjoyed huge success throughout the peninsula — and created famous champions in the process.
Both the far-right and far-left have been seduced by Putin in a love match that not even war can uncouple.
The Italian writer came into his own during the Second World War– but his ideas about the English-speaking world don’t necessarily connect to Western realities – or audiences – today.
The recent spectacle has held Italians and political observers spellbound — but the system’s twists and turns are also strangely dispiriting.
The patrician nature of Italian education takes students on a one-way journey of factual regurgitation – but sometimes cracks in the system let a little light in.
The country loves to laud its inventors, veracity aside. History, after all, isn’t the past, it’s what we say the past was.
Bella Ciao has been co-opted by activists and corporations the world over. Does Italy’s most famous protest song deserve a beautiful goodbye?
What connects a cannabis plant with the French Revolution? The little Italian town of Carmagnola – where the manufacture of cannabis hemp became local myth and an international phenomenon.
It is a commonplace saying that we must listen more. But in our noisy world it takes a lot of skill and energy.
The beautiful game seemed made for the Italy of wild hair, baggy shorts and Euro-optimism. But did the glory days of Series A ever really exist?
In his contrarian pamphlets and sketches, Guareschi earned his reputation as an uncompromising critic of Italy’s post-war decadence.
With globalism disrupted by Covid, cities offer a tried and tested way of binding people together.
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