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The Dark Knight - viewed by the minister for the interior

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

A welcome on board to Three Monkeys’ newest blogger - Brendan Coffey - whose Between Boston and Berlin blog is now online. One of Coffey’s first pieces is a thumbs up for the new Christopher Nolan Batman Film - The Dark Knight. The film, though, has a radically different context here in Italy, under the [...]

An ‘untimely death’ in Verona

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

By chance this week, this monkeys saw an episode of the truly terrible Francesco’s Italy (worth watching, if you turn the sound down), where host Count Francesco Da Mosta pulled his alfa-romeo spider into Verona. In keeping with the rest of the series, Da Mosta gave us a keen insight into the city’s history and [...]

Italy bans the Burqa

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004

While France implements its ban on the wearing of the hijab in schools, an Italian Mayor in the North of the country has fined an Italian Muslim woman, twice, for leaving her house wearing the Burqa [A veil that covers the face and entire head but with a place cut out for the eyes].
Cristian Tolettini, [...]