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Monarchy is often regarded as the old-fashioned setting of Disney stories, but where it is the current form of government there is no valiant prince or happy ending. In reality even kings fall into sin, like happened to former Spanish king Juan Carlos I, who, six years after his abdication was found guilty of bribery. He collected $78 million from […]
The beautiful Langhe landscape, part of Piedmont in Italy, is a prized destination of tourists from all over the world, who come here to walk through the hills shaped by centuries of growers’ activities, to eat great dishes like Plin pasta, but, mostly, to taste the incredible wine here produced from the local Nebbiolo grapes, the Barolo, Langhe’s most precious […]
Since the beginning of December, leading physicians throughout all the hospitals and retirement houses in Europe have convened meetings to plan the upcoming COVID vaccination campaign, which started in Europe on December 27. The first vaccine allowed to be inoculated is Pfizer, but on January 6th also Moderna will be allowed by the European Medicines Agency as the FDA did […]
Europe’s reaction to the autumnal second Covid wave has been different nation by nation, revealing the priorities and the weaknesses of each country. Today the most discussed field where these differences break out is about keeping or not schools open. Countries like Scandinavian nations, Ireland,UK, Germany or France have decided not to shut down classrooms, even if cases have increased […]
Uffizi’s Gallery in Florence is the most important museum in Italy and the 10th most visited museum globally, as it hosts the world’s finest Italian Renaissance art collection, which attracted over four million visitors in 2019. Amidst its greatest masterpieces, Uffizi exhibits The Birth of Venus (Botticelli, 1484-1486), Doni Tondo (Michelangelo, 1507), Annunciation (Leonardo, 1472-1475) and the biggest collection of […]
This is a question that may sound meaningless, but it is not so for Swedish (or Scandinavian as well) handling of the pandemic. Since the beginning of the outbreak, Sweden has not imposed any lockdown as well as any mandatory mask-wearing, which is why roughly 84.7% of people do not do it at all, according to the german site Statista. […]
Usually people thinking about Ancient Egypt (3150-50 BC) imagine wide deserts in Africa with giant pyramids and sphinxes, gods and mummies near the Nile, but there’s a big piece of Egypt in the city from where I write monthly for the Star-Revue, namely Turin, which is in the northwest portion of Italy. Here, 2000 miles away from Egypt, there’s a […]
Since the Romantic age, every time a society brings a fight in the streets against an alleged regime, Western countries everywhere cheer, with the belief that the unrest is a step towards the idea of “modern democracy.” Nowadays the same is happening for Belarus, where the former-Soviet president Lukashenko has ruled as a dictator for over 26 years. Recent election results, in […]
Last June in Europe many protests erupted in the streets after George Floyd’s death. Almost every week people gathered in different cities, with the commitment to express solidarity to the African-Americans. Despite this noble purpose, the BLM movement in Europe has not heavily impacted politics or society. Mainly it has only obtained some statements by few governments and not in […]
The Brera Library, as known as Braidense, is the Italian national library, founded in Milan in 1770 by the Hapsburg empress Mary Therese when Italy was not united and Lombardy was under Austrian control. Today it is one of the main book depositories in Italy as it collects all the publications printed in Milan, where the majority of Italians books […]