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Homo Phobias
Regional survey probes attitudes and fears
A recent study has revealed that approximately four out of ten homosexuals are the targets of discrimination in state schools, hospitals and other public institutions.
Conducted by the Tuscan Region in collaboration with the online newspaper Gaynet and researchers from the …
Florence News
Pilgrims way
Prodi shines new light on old path crossing Tuscan
Nature
buffs can follow footsteps from the past while traveling from
Canterbury to Rome. Italian premier Romano Prodi recently unveiled the
first of over 1,500 signposts that will line routes once used by
pilgrims in medieval times.
The
first signpost is located on via Francigena, which means …
Florence News
More inclined
Leaning tower of Pisa loses distinction toGerman twin
It
may be hard to fathom, but the Leaning Tower of Pisa is no longer the
farthest leaning structure in the world. Recently stripped of its
Guinness record, one of Tuscany's most visited monuments has been
replaced by a relatively unknown sloping church tower close …
Florence News
Faster than the Speed of Light
Florence resumes production of vintage auto
Two
young entrepreneurs and a university professor will soon revive a lost
art form in Florence. The Ermini racecar, currently being designed and
tested by researchers at the University of Florence, will make its way
back onto city streets.
Homegrown
Florentine mechanical engineer Pasquale Ermini began producing
prototype …
Italy News
British student murdered in Perugia
Three held in connection with killing
American student Amanda Knox has accused a Congolese pub owner of killing her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia on November 1.
Knox is being held in connection with the case, along with her Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, and local bar …
Italy News
Not So Saintly
Former pope considered Padre Pio a phony
Pope John XXIII believed that one of Italy’s most beloved saints was a fraud. Recently unearthed documents conserved the Vatican archives give evidence that Angelo Roncalli thought the very popular Capuchin monk Padre Pio to be a fake whose soul was …
Italy News
Parliament in pink
Italys newest Democratic Party privileges women
For the first time ever in Italian politics, the executive team of the country’s newest political party will be made up mostly of women. Head of the centre-left Partito Democratico (Democratic party) and Rome mayor Walter Veltroni recently announced the names …
Italy News
Only death could bring his silence
Italy mourns one of its most
celebrated journalists, Enzo Biagi, who died on November 6 from heart
failure at the age of 87. During his 60-year career, Biagi was a
leading reporter for myriad national print publications and headed
prominent TV news programmes and investigative …
Italy News
Nose jobs
Rhinoplasty procedures in Italy are in high demand, but the reason Italians are waiting months, even years, for a nose job is not aesthetic. They need repairs to damage from excessive cocaine use. According to plastic surgeons gathered at a national …
Italy News
Immaculate conception
After six long years of legal battle, a Neapolitan mobster serving a life sentence in a maximum-security prison in Terni, Umbria, was granted the right to conceive a child with his wife through artificial insemination. Last week, a healthy baby girl, …
Sport News
Bloody Sunday
Football riots sparked by accidental fan death
A series of violent outbursts by enraged football fans shocked Italian cities on November 11, following the news of the tragic death of a 26-year old man at a highway service station near the central Tuscan town of Arezzo.
According to …
Sport News
Viola eyes top spot
Team Viola has made an unbelievable comeback this season. Last year, it was a club in crisis trying to come to terms with hefty point reductions as a result of the game-fixing scandal that crippled Italian football. Currently in second place …
Sport News
Coach cuts top players
Two top Azzurri strikers will be left out of the last two European Championship qualifying matches against Scotland and the Faeroe Islands. Azzurri coach Roberto Donadoni has decided not to call on veteran forwards Alessandro Del Piero and Filippo Inzaghi in …
Sport News
Swapping secrets in the F1
Investigators target Renault in spy story
Top executives at Renault are being questioned regarding their involvement in the industrial espionage scandal that rocked the Formula One this season. The Renault team is accused of secretly obtaining confidential information on the McLaren car. The allegations come two months …
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Inspired genius
A Shakespearean actors dramatic take on the David
by Antony Sher
‘Some
of Michelangelo's friends wrote from Florence to tell him to return,
since it was not beyond the realm of possibility that he might be given
the block of spoiled marble in the Works Department, which Piero
Soderini, recently elected Gonfaloniere of the city for …
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Monday, May 20, 2013