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Ideas Society

García Márquez’s Final Novel And The Eternal Beauty Of The Unfinished

The late Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author’s sons have published his draft novel Until August against his will. Yet no work of art is ever really finished. And excerpts and fragments are suited to our anxious times.

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Geopolitics Weird

Top Italian Education Official Mistakes Dante For Mickey Mouse

Shortly before being appointed Undersecretary for Education, Rossano Sasso dashed off for Rome, amid around-the-clock negotiations in the capital to form Italy’s new government. And Sasso made sure to share the moment with his Facebook followers. “He who stops is lost, a thousand years for every minute,” the 45-year-old politician from the southern Puglia region […]

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In The News

Infernal Dante

Dante Alighieri is buried in this tomb, in Ravenna. The story of the quarrel surrounding the 13th-century poet’s remains, disputed between this city in northern Italy where he was exiled, and his native Florence, is long and fascinating.

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Ideas Society

If Colombia’s Poverty Is Not In The Data, It’s On The Streets

Last month’s optimistic reports of declining poverty rates in Colombia are a world away from reality.

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Society

Bella Mia – Italy Seduces The World But Can’t Bear The Sight Of Itself

TURIN – So it’s like this: after having solved a mystery involving the Pope in Rome and the esoteric world of Leonardo da Vinci in Paris, the new Dan Brown thriller will be set in the streets of Florence, as well as in the pages of Dante’s Inferno. Dan Brown is no master of style, […]

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