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Posts Tagged ‘neo-fascists’

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 [...]

Of buffons, fascists, and superstitious grasping

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Much sniggering has been done internationally (and here in Italy) at the recent judgement by the Corte di Cassazione (or supreme court) that grasping one’s ‘attributi’ in public is an offence punishable by a fine.
In a country where it’s a common superstition that grasping one’s ‘palle’ wards off bad-luck, this is bad news for many. [...]