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...stay out of any coalition," she said. "We will continue to create a short circuit for everyone in this bipolar system." The Prime Minister is still likely to court her, though. "Berlusconi loves [Mussolini] because she is so good at the spectacle of politics," says La Repubblica columnist Filippo Ceccarelli. But if tiny parties like hers can keep their outsized influence, Berlusconi may no longer find that spectacle so edifying...
...Florentine artist filippino Lippi was the product of a scandalous 15th century love affair: his father, Filippo, an artist and Carmelite friar, was chaplain of Santa Margarita convent in Prato when he ran off with a beautiful nun named Lucrezia Buti. Their illegitimate son, coached by a Florentine painter, became one of the most famous artists of his age, known for the imagination and versatility of his work and patronized by the rich and powerful. The twist in the tale came four centuries later: Filippino's fame had long since faded when England's Pre-Raphaelites "discovered" the genius...
...recovery. A few crumbled buildings have been rebuilt and refitted with corrugated-iron roofs. Merchants have opened new stores. The hospital may not have reliable water, electricity or supplies - "They don't have soap to wash the floor, so you work in the dirt in a surgical ward," says Filippo De Pasquale, an Italian volunteer doctor - but at least it has been dug out from the bush. Should negotiations between the rebels and the Sudanese government end the two-decades-long civil war, it's these types of basic necessities - roofs, shops, trees - that the southern Sudanese will gain...
...show will remain in Paris until Jan. 5, before moving to London's Royal Academy of Arts from Jan. 31-April 18. Botticelli, from Lorenzo the Magnificent to Savonarola (Oct. 1-Feb. 22) assembles 20 Botticelli paintings and six drawings, plus a dozen works by contemporaries like Filippo Lippi and Piero di Cosimo, all working during the late 15th century, when Florence blossomed in the humanist atmosphere of the Medici court before being swallowed up by the fire-and-brimstone fervor of the Dominican monk Savonarola. Along with several of Botticelli's delicate Madonnas, the show's highlights include...
...talked to Let’s Go, and they said they get a lot of feedback from older people,” Filippo said. “Not everyone wants to stay in a youth hostel anymore...