Letters from Rome
February 7, 2011
The Broken Promise: Fiscal Federalism
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano refused to sign the bill on fiscal federalism, with comments that it was “unreceivable,” poorly drafted and generic. For Berlusconi the...
January 31, 2011
On both sides of the Atlantic, pride in anti-mob action
Salvatore Cuffaro and his infamous cannoli
While in New York nearly 125 are arrested in “the largest mob roundup in F.B.I. history" Italian Senator and former governor of Sicily Salvatore Cuffaro is sentenced to 7 years...
January 23, 2011
Mr. Berlusconi: Ganging up, but who cares?
Despite the crescendo of scandal worthy of an 18th century Turkish sultan, Mr. Berlusconi remains the most charismatic and popular politician in Italy. ... True democracy, he...
January 16, 2011
On the Disassembly Line at Fiat: A General Strike in the Works?
Workers at Fiat's Mirafiori plant in Turin vote in a contested two-day referendum that will determine whether Fiat keeps open the historic factory
January 11, 2011
Heart warming vs heart breaking
In Welcome to the South, Luca Miniero's remake of an acclaimed French comedy, a North Italian postal employee aspires to a transfer to Milan, but instead finds himself dispatched...
December 15, 2010
The Flames of Protest Envelop Rome
Largo Argentina, Rome, Dec.14, 12:45 pm - Via del Corso was entirely sealed off by police vans, and so a sea of demonstrators took a right angle to surge toward this square, whose...
November 22, 2010
Pompeii and the Collapse of the Domus of the Gladiators
On November 6, the Domus of the Gladiators, one of the millennia old buildings in the ancient city of Pompeii, crumbled to pieces. And, conveniently, it is nobody's fault.
November 15, 2010
Giancarlo Caselli: Sciascia and the Palermo anti-Mafia pool
In the article "The Anti-Mafia Professionals", appeared on the national daily Il Corriere della Sera, Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia attacked Borsellino when he requested a...
November 5, 2010
So Who Has The Last Laugh?
Some are saying that the Italian political situation is so surreal that it defeats any attempt at humor. They should think again. The comics are having a field day, and maybe a...
November 3, 2010
Will Bunga Bunga Finally Make Berlusconi's Personal Political?
Wanna dodge prison in Italy? Just be a young hot belly-dancer with disputable ethics, become friends with the Premier (a fairly straightforward consequence to the previous...
September 30, 2010
Senate. Who’s the winner in Wednesday vote of confidence? For the moment, no one
“The majority is stronger, and Gianfranco Fini’s people turned out to be loyal,” said Berlusconi with evident relief. “Now this government can complete the legislature.”...
September 7, 2010
Italian Politicians Lose Their Cool (and Slip in the Polls)
On Sunday, the president of the Chamber of Deputies Fini gave a much-awaited speech at Mirabello, in which he formally divorced Berlusconi’s Popolo della Libertà and invited...
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