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Italian Life and History Articles
The incredible Italian journalist Luigi Barzini
(author of the seminal work The Italians)
claimed that there were "two Italies": the one that created and
nurtured such luminaries as Dante Alighieri,
St.
Thomas of Aquino and Leonardo da Vinci;
the other, feeble and prone to catastrophe, backward in political
action if not in thought, "invaded, ravaged, sacked, and humiliated in
every century." Italy, the country, is a relatively new concept, born
only within the last century and a half. Italy, the culture, is a
wonderful, complicated, frustrating, beautiful, unique thing.
The following article is
free for all readers to access:
Italy
Events Calendar: What's Happening in Italy This Summer and Fall
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