By Mathias Wildt Published in The Washington Post
On a foggy February morning a few years ago, my wife and I were walking down an alley in Venice when we turned a corner and were confronted by an amazing sight: a procession of 30 human figures seeming to glide on the stone pavement in complete silence, [...]
(ANSA) – Rome, February 13 – The need for a common
strategy to reverse the global recession and avoid
protectionist domestic solutions to an international crisis
will be the focus of a summit of economy ministers from the
Group of Seven (G7) here on Friday and Saturday.
Also attending the talks will be the heads of the
European Central Bank, the [...]
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(ANSA) – Bologna, February 13 – Italian soccer great
Giacomo Bulgarelli died Thursday night after a long illness,
his ex-club Bologna said Friday.
Bulgarelli, 68, who won the European championship with
Italy in 1968, is remembered as the symbol of Bologna in the
1960s and 1970s, rivalling Inter Milan`s Sandro Mazzola and
AC Milan`s Gianni Rivera as [...]
(ANSA) – Rome, February 12 – A Group of Seven (G7)
meeting on the global financial crisis is set to kick off in
Rome Friday evening with a gala dinner for the finance
ministers and invited guests.
An informal opportunity for ministers to discuss the
meeting`s agenda, the dinner will be held at Villa Madama, [...]
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(ANSA) – Paris, February 13 – Paris is celebrating
Giorgio De Chirico`s art and his links with the city`s
intellectual and artistic elite with a major retrospective
opening on Friday at the Museum of Modern Art.
The show gathers 160 works – paintings, sculptures,
drawings and etchings – which trace his career from 1909 [...]
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(ANSA) – Rome, February 6 – The following is a
city-by-city guide to some of Italy`s top art exhibitions:
ASCOLI – Galleria d`Arte Contemporanea: `Sedendo e
Mirando`, 130 landscapes by famed cartoonist Tullio Pericoli;
March 21-September 13.
BOLOGNA – Museo d`Arte Moderna (MAMBO): More than 100
works by Giorgio Morandi in one of [...]
(ANSA) – Rome, February 6 – President Giorgio Napolitano
on Friday confirmed he would not approve an emergency decree
that would prevent doctors from removing Eluana Englaro`s
feeding tube in accordance with a landmark right-to-die
ruling.
The cabinet unanimously approved the decree despite open
opposition from Napolitano, who sent a letter to Premier
Silvio Berlusconi warning that [...]
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(ANSA) – Bari, February 6 – Police on Friday arrested a
man who posed as a priest and sexually abused boys as young
as ten near the southern city of Bari.
Angelo Maria Chiriatti, 53, the self-styled founder of
the Missionaries of Our Lady of the Quarry, is alleged to
have abused five boys between [...]
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(ANSA) – Vatican City, February 6 – Pope Benedict XVI
has created problems for Catholics and other religions
with his decision to lift the excommunication of four
traditionalist bishops, including one who has repeatedly
denied that the Holocaust took place, Le Monde and the
Financial Times said on Friday.
Benedict`s rehabilitation last month of Holocaust denier
Richard [...]
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