The English Brownings took Italy to heart, and the new country never broke it.
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Wanted: New ideas
The Berlusconi sex circus puts the onus on Italian feminism to recharge its batteries.
Pizza with goats
Nostalgia is a terrible thing to waste, particularly when you're moving.
Franz Joseph
Fiction's concession speech puts an end to history as literature or opera.
Total darkness
Haiti is a tale of woe that even school children will pause to consider.
Beeetching and moooaning
Traveling cheap can brings out the least endearing of Italian traits: Theatrics.
Enthrall me
When seeing is believing and speech is infinite what do you do for an encore?
Borrowed time
North African leaders are discovering that old-school nationalism no longer works.
The rhino
Shrewd and thick-skinned, Silvio Berlusconi continues laughing at embarrassment.
Green wins
A local effort to save a Milan park from a heliport sees a breakthrough.
Black bear memories
Going back to a childhood ski resort can leave you at odds with an unrecognizable present.
The pilgrim
Forget about Mark Twain and Nat Hawthorne, Edith Wharton had Italy covered.