Letters from Rome
Letters from Rome
Reports and uncoventional thoughts from an American expat.
November 14, 2008
Panoramic Rome, before and after Google
Bernard Fisher, historian at the University of Virginia, has finally assisted to the concretization of his project: Google Earth made it possibile to realize a virtual ancient...
November 7, 2008
US Elections: “But why not an Obama here in Italy?”
"Handsome, youthful and also suntanned"? When a compliment becomes a gaffe
October 29, 2008
The Crisis of Italian Universities: A student speaks out
Photo UP (Amedeo Novelli). See complete gallery here
Statale University, Milan: Protesting the new legislation devised by Education Minister Gelmini
Students' protests over government cuts to education are mounting everywhere in Italy. Meanwhile, professors denounce the disastrous financial shortages of the university system.
October 26, 2008
“Salviamo l’Italia”. Demo Diary.
Walter Veltroni spoke to the crowd in Rome on Saturday, October 25.
Acres of people filled Rome’s enormous Circus Maximus to protest the government and listen to the leader of Italy’s Democratic Party Walter Veltroni. Government cuts to...
October 18, 2008
Cappuccino Connoisseur, and Proud of It
Photo from: "Scene di vita italiana a Bensonhurst" (by Luca Fantini)
Nel bicchiere, in vetro or in tazza? Poca or molta schiuma? Boiling or tepid? However you like it, a cappuccino will sure become part of your Dolce Vita in Rome. And can make you...
September 12, 2008
Italy: Immigration Politics in a Land of (Former) Emigrants
Thoughts of an American Expat about how contemporary Italy, after over a century of emigration, deals with it's own immigrants today
July 1, 2008
Does misery love company? Italy’s Roma
Few are more miserable these days than the Roma, or Gypsies, in Italy, whose camps are being bulldozed, whose shacks are being firebombed, and whose children now risk being...
June 16, 2008
Ancient Roman Slave Cemetery Found at Ostia Antica
The little community of slaves laboring at the port at Ancient Ostia, at the mouth of the Tiber River, was desperately poor, but when the eight-year-old boy died, they endowed his...
June 6, 2008
Naples Walks Alone, on Burning and Bloodied Sidewalks
Interiors of the castle in Ottaviano (Naples). It has been the headquarters of Raffaele Cutolo, boss of Camorra (Neapolitan mafia) in the 1970s and 1980s. Now it is proprerty of Italian State.
"The territory is divided into fiefs; leadership is turned over to a capozona (local boss); membership is expanded through blood ties; and they show an extraordinary capacity to...
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