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...typical Roman history tour begins with the tomb of an ancient emperor and winds down with the works of your Renaissance-era artist-of-choice. But perched atop the Janiculum hill - with St. Peter's over the north slope, and a splendid view of ancient Rome sprawled out to the east - stands an imposing monument to a more modern and no less fascinating hero of the past. Giuseppe Garibaldi, the legendary 19th century general who helped liberate and unify what became the modern state of Italy, has a place in history that both defines and transcends Italianita. For the bicentennial...
...recent afternoon, as cars and scooters zipped around the enormous Janiculum statue, and tourists gazed off at the view of the city below, one 86-year-old Rome native was looking up at the giant bronze Garibaldi. "He was a man of action," said Bruno Ambrosi dei Magistris, a retired paint company owner, sporting a white moustache and aviator sunglasses. "Sure we know that Italians tend to be self-centered. But when called to do something serious, we respond." In Italy, the iconography of Garibaldi - a dashing figure with piercing eyes and a mane of hair - has been massaged...
...summer of pop. Every morning when the noise of the Janiculum Hill’s busy streets became too much to sleep through, we arose from bed, drank a quick shot of coffee and snapped out of our grogginess through the means most readily available to us, a means that woke us up, entertained us, made us laugh, made us cry and gave us a connection to our home. This means: MTV Europe...
...seminarians now studying in Rome, more than half reside at the North American College, founded in 1858 and now occupying modern quarters on the Janiculum Hill overlooking St. Peter's. Until recently, the North American had just about the stiffest discipline of any of the national colleges: students could not talk at meals or visit each other's rooms, were only allowed to leave the college in groups of three. "It's like the Russian guards in Berlin," explained one seminarian. "If one tries to get away, the other two can shoot him." Things have gradually eased...
Along the Grand Canal in Venice, a huge, brightly lit red-and-white shield of the Christian Democratic Party gleams in the night; sprouting from Rome's Janiculum Hill, overlooking the Vatican, is the red-white-green flame of the tiny, powerless Fascists. From Messina to Milan last week, wide piazzas and narrow alleyways sprouted in riotous campaign colors, and echoed with the loudspeaker slogans of scudding little Fiat 600s, as Italy's 34,-300,000 voters prepared to go to the polls for the first national election in five years...