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Hatred. Or broterhood, compassion, doubt?
Triggered by watching its promotional video – and immediately enjoying the author’s drawing style (even without me being an expert reader of comics or graphic novels) – I decided to purchase, and to read at once, Aleix Saló‘s (1983- ) … Continue reading
Van spreekwoorden, solidariteit en belastingparadijzen
De pot verwijt de ketel dat hij zwart is is een uitdrukking waaraan ik regelmatig heb moeten denken in de afgelopen dagen van oplaaiende discussie tussen (zogenaamd) zuinige en (vermoedelijk) kwistige Europese Landen. Als Italiaan die al bijna 20 jaar … Continue reading
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Uses and abuses of Holocaust photographs: lecture at the UvA Faculty of Humanities
UPDATE FEBRUARY 26th: EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED On February 27th, UvA Assistant professors Maria Urban (Italian Studies) and Suze van der Poll (Scandinavian Studies) will moderate a lecture given by Laura Fontana and co-organized by the NIOD Institute for war, … Continue reading
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Mediterranean, sea of migrants (2): a quote from Virgil’s Aeneid
«What race of mortals this? What barbarous land, / that with inhospitable laws ye thrust / a stranger from your coasts, and fly to arms» is the question Ilioneus, a companion of Aeneas, asks to Dido on entering her palace … Continue reading
Mediterranean, sea of migrants (1): the shipwreck of 18 april 2015
Four years ago, on the night of 18 april 2015, a fishing boat carrying around 800 migrant people capsized and sunk off the coast of Libya. With only 28 people surviving, it has become the worst disaster in the Mediterranean … Continue reading
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A quote for the new year: Piero Calamandrei on freedom
Piero Calamandrei, Discorso sulla Costituzione (Speech on the Constitution), given on January 26, 1955 at the Società Umanitaria in Milan (original recording available online here). «It is so beautiful, it is so easy: there is freedom. We live in a … Continue reading
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Migrants, migrations and (Italian) writers and intellectuals
Italian journalist and (crime) writer Alessandro Robecchi was interviewed last week by the website Radici. It was interviewer Fabio Poletti’s very last question that triggered the idea of this blogpost (English translation is mine): «Q: Literature has always been dealing … Continue reading
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On Italy’s Liberation day: Umberto Eco and Ur-Fascism
Every April 25th Italy commemorates the end of both Mussolini’s regime and the Nazi occupation of the Country: the date, made into a national holiday in 1946, corresponds to the Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale Alta Italia (CLNAI – National Liberation … Continue reading
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The Italian university professors’ oath of allegiance to fascism (1931)
«I swear fidelity to the King, to his Royal successors and to the Fascist regime, and I swear to respect the [National Fascist Party’s] Statute and the other laws of the State, and to fulfil my teacher’s and all academics’ … Continue reading
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Readings (not romance): Le Monde Diplomatique, WWI, Andric
Sleepwalking into a big war is the title of an article by Michael T. Klare (Hampshire College), published in last september issue of Le Monde Diplomatique. Extremely interesting and (slightly) disquieting, Klare’s article mentions among others Christopher Clark‘s (University of … Continue reading
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