Plants As Persons? The Work Of Stefano Mancuso
I do not want to suggest that Italians have some special claim on the love of plants. However, Mancuso’s love for plants is somehow Italian. In this piece I continue…
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Rebuilding After An Earthquake: Lessons From 17th Century Sicily
Greater liberty at lower scales of activity typically produces better results. In my previous pieces I wrote on three relations that appear evident in Italian society: that between the religious…
Italy, Earthquakes And The Duty Of Rebuilding
Creation and destruction exist in an eternal struggle. Italy has a lot of earthquakes. It also has a lot of fragile stone and masonry buildings that are centuries old and…
Italy’s Special Relation Between Culture And Agriculture
If the family forms the basic sociological unit in Italy, the agro-alimentary tradition is the glue that holds it together It would be hard to identify a dynamic that is…
Italy’s Religious Symbols In Secular Spaces
Crosses and crucifixes are seemingly everywhere in Italy By Thomas J. Puleo PhD in Cultural Geography and former university professor at the Arizona State University In Italy it is very…