Presidential Election Or Political Telenovela?
What Sergio Mattarella’s reluctant re-election and Italy’s complex electoral system mean for the future.
What Sergio Mattarella’s reluctant re-election and Italy’s complex electoral system mean for the future.
There is a solution to the current political conundrum: not to elect a member of a political party altogether and choose Italy’s first female President.
If people can't go to the bookshop, someone's got to bring the books to them.
A small but vibrant arts collective is reviving Sicily's rich tradition of myth and legend.
The works of Giovanni Meli illustrate some of the problems translators meet when they are asked to translate from one language into another.
A Special Edition of our exclusive Patreon column, the Tiny News Roundup.
Mario Draghi is the obvious candidate to be Italy’s next president, but first he must deal with the inevitable tangles of Italian politics.
The monolingual approach adopted for the political aim of making Italians speak with one voice has succeeded. But the campaign has been needlessly costly.
With the establishment of Florentine as the literary language of choice, all the other regional languages came to be regarded as dialects, creating a unique situation that Italians have struggled with to this day.
Great courage, an unshakable faith in the codes of chivalry, madness, are the traits that one normally associated with Don Quijote. However, when Pirandello refers to specific events in the life of the Knight, a problem arises.
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