Italian History

Paolo Ventura's Staged Photos Of Magical, Miniature Moments

Posted 02.17.2012

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There is a magic particular to the bedtime story, the tales heard in the final moments of consciousness before one drifts off to sleep and melts into ...

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Pompeii Garden Wall Collapse Highlights Italian Historic Site's Neglect (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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ROME (AP) - A stretch of garden wall ringing an ancient house in Pompeii gave way Tuesday after days of torrential rain, the latest structure to colla...

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'April is our Fatal Month' -- Mussolini's wife

Kenneth Kales | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kenneth Kales

I try to make sense of Romano's complex memoir by asking myself, "How would I have turned out if Benito Mussolini had been my father?" Or, how would you have turned out?

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