Word: italianity
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...most captivating photographs, however, do not neglect the human factor. In “Garabaldi Home Library”—taken by an anonymous photographer around the time of the founding of the Social Museum—we are privy to a group of “Italian boys of the North...
...Painted advertisements for appliances and liquor cover one wall, and theatre posters line the fence between the two buildings. An English-Italian bilingual sign announces a grocery store below the other building. A black man stands in front of the theatre posters with a shovel and a white man sits beside him, while a woman and child look out a top-floor balcony...
...that end, opera-goers should leave their English-Italian dictionaries at home...
...turned out, the confetti raining down and the golden trophy glowing above the head of captain Fabio Cannavaro was just a flickering interlude in what is turning out to be among the darkest periods ever for Italian soccer. The shadow had already been cast before the June-to-July victorious run in Germany, as a referee scandal consumed many of Italy's top league teams. Wire-tapped phone calls revealed that team officials orchestrated referee selection, and everyone from league bosses to politicians to television commentators had a foot in the alleged "system" of influence. The controversy eventually forced Juventus...
...violence, though, is just the jack of spades in an Italian soccer world that increasingly looks like a house of cards. Beyond the referee scandal, there have been recent cases of match-fixing, financial improprieties and lingering questions of conflicts of interest. Following the dominance of the Italian league in the 1980s and 1990s, there are even signs that the off-field shenanigans are affecting performance. In the past decade, only one Italian club has claimed a Champions League title (AC Milan in 2003), following a 12-year period that included five titles in the top European competition. And elite...