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Monthly Archives: April 2008
Power of the press
Well, I hadn’t realised the Sunday Telegraph would have such impact in a provincial Italian town.I’d decided to keep pretty quiet about the piece I wrote on Fondi a few weeks ago, on the grounds that the information wasn’t there … Continue reading
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Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald’s cropped up twice these past few days. Once on a just-read March 5 post from the House of Mirth, which posted this wonderful short letter she wrote to a bookseller who thought she might be interested in buying … Continue reading
Posted in penelope fitzgerald
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Bella Ciao
Twenty years before the start of WW2, a Yiddish ballad was recorded in New York by a musician called Mishka Ziganoff. You can listen to it here. If you know the Italian partisan anthem, Bella Ciao, you’ll find parts of … Continue reading
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Politometro
You have to live in Italy and speak Italian to get this. It’s one of those tests to see where you stand in the political spectrum. I’m the angry radio. The rest of them are politicians. If you’d like to … Continue reading
Posted in berlusconi, bigotry, binetti, election, italy, politics
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Adventure
I was talking to an extremely well-read American friend and writer a couple of weeks ago and I discovered that not only had he never read Enid Blyton, he’d never even heard of her. OK, he’s younger than I am, … Continue reading
Posted in enid blyton, reading
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Roof stuff
Last September, I posted a piece about the legal problems we were having with the roof of our house here in Fondi. It’s a long, and painful, story and if you don’t remember the details I suggest you click here. … Continue reading
Posted in corruption, fondi, italy, picador
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Punto e virgola
Each culture gets the windbag it deserves. Italy has Pietro Citati, a man who imagines that, by writing about Kafka, Goethe, Proust, et al, he’s somehow earning his own place in the pantheon. What Citati doesn’t seem to have realised … Continue reading
Posted in citati, language, semi-colon
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