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...tougher visa regimes...the first thing is to be extra careful with your documents and things when you travel,” said Muralidharan, who is a doctoral candidate in economics. “And also be aware of country reputations,” he said, referring to Italy??s notoriety for passport theft...
Fehrenbach said it will be hard for him to bid “Ciao” to Italy??s art, landscape, and culinary specialties...
...talk about it overmuch,” writes Willig’s friend Elizabeth W. Mellyn in an e-mail. Mellyn, a fifth-year doctoral student in history—who, as it happens, is working on The Relic Thieves, a young-adult novel set in fifteenth-century Italy??knows something about balancing fiction with graduate-level history...
Whereas Soviet artists produced propaganda that directly supported Stalin’s regime, Italian literati during the 1920s and 1930s adopted a more hands-off, apathetic approach to the rise of Mussolini’s fascism. While many of Italy??s artists and intellectuals were in theory “liberal,” meaning sympathetic to the democratic monarchy, “liberal writers were totally absent from the political scene,” said Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Lino Pertile. “They did not think it was their business to meddle...
Part of the distance between intellectuals and Italian Zeitgeist, according to Pertile, was the fault of Italy??s cultural and linguist fragmentation. “In 1930, most Italians did not speak Italian,” but rather conversed in mutually unintelligible dialects. Still fewer could actually read. As a result, Italian fascists had little trouble keeping the nation’s arts and literature in check, devoting far more effort to censoring news reports on suicides—or even reports of bad weather—because of their adverse affects on morale. “Literature...