Italian
The stigma
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According to the Treccani Italian language dictionary, the word stigma comes from Greek, literally meaning “puncture,” and signifies a mark, stain, indelible,…
Hadrian's Wall
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The English word wall derives from the Latin vallum and means wall.Hadrian’s Wall is a long and imposing fortified structure commissioned by…
War continues
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War never ends with peace, but with victory and defeat. At least, that’s how it has always been. Carl von Clausewitz, in…
Black cat in the world
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Every cat, like every dog and other animals of different species, is a unique and unrepeatable being, with its character more or…
Empties prisons and fills hospitals
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With the final approval by Parliament of the reform of D.P.R. 309/1990 (which introduces articles 94-ter and 94-quater), the Italian legal system…
Why the mind doesn't age
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Time runs inexorably and makes no concessions. It is enough to leaf through an old photo album or find a snapshot from…
Common sense and the farmhouse
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Our Constitution differs from almost all others from the very first line: “Italy is a democratic Republic, founded on labor.” It is…
There is an obsession that runs through our civilization, an idiosyncrasy that in distant centuries was not experienced with the pathological intensity…
