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FLORENCE JOURNAL; Battle Brews Over Michelangelo's 'David'

September 1, 2010 By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO FLORENCE, Italy — For 500 years, Michelangelo’s “David” has stood as a symbol of Florentine independence and virtue. So when a report commissioned by the federal government emerged this month claiming that Italy — and not the city — was the statue’s rightful owner, local tempers flared. The sculpture, Mayor... Full article »

Libyan Leader Returns to Rome

August 31, 2010 By GAIA PIANIGIANI ROME — Less than a year after his last visit, when he invited 200 aspiring models to convert to Islam, the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi , has pitched his well-known tent in Rome for a two-day media blitz. This time around, the colonel, who has ruled Libya since 1969, had coffee in downtown Rome after delivering a lecture about Islam... Full article »

DESIGN; An Italian Designer’s Homage to His Native Country

August 30, 2010 By ALICE RAWSTHORN MILAN — When Alessandro Mendini was a student he conducted an experiment by challenging himself to live with no more than 40 objects. How did it go? He failed. “It was impossible,” he recalled. “I’d calculated the minimum number of things I thought I needed to get by so carefully, but hadn’t realized how many... Full article »

ON SOCCER; At Barcelona, the Price of Dreams Varies

August 30, 2010 By ROB HUGHES LONDON The last of Europe’s soccer seasons, in Spain and Italy, kicked off over the weekend. But the disruptive trading of players will not cease until the summer transfer window closes at midnight Tuesday. There can be little cause to feel sympathy for players whose salaries seem bulletproof in these tough economic times. Yet the way they... Full article »

In the Fields Of Italy, A Conflict Over Corn

August 24, 2010 By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL VIVARO, Italy -- Giorgio Fidenato declared war on the Italian government and environmental groups in April with a news conference and a YouTube video, which showed him poking six genetically modified corn seeds into Italian soil. In fact, said Mr. Fidenato, 49, an agronomist, he planted two fields of genetically modified corn. But since ''corn... Full article »

FACE; Smellbound

August 22, 2010 By JIM LEWIS One overcast afternoon last May I sat in a small atelier in a tiny town in the hills of Rimini, Italy. Across from me sat a man in royal blue robes and a matching blue turban, with a long gray beard and kohl-rimmed eyes; on his desk, and on the shelves behind him, in a cabinet by the door -- all over the room -- there were small amber-tinted glass... Full article »

THE FEMALE FACTOR; Counting the Cost of Machismo

August 18, 2010 By KATRIN BENNHOLD PARIS -- When Alexandra Pascalidou, a Swedish-Greek writer and television host, joked on a Greek cooking show that dad rather than mom might make dinner for the children, her producer, she recalled, yelled into her earpiece to ''cut that feminist nonsense.'' In Italy, a string of sex scandals involving Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi did not stop... Full article »

Francesco Cossiga, 82; Led Italy and Its Antiterrorism Battle

August 18, 2010 By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO ROME -- Francesco Cossiga, who led Italy's fight against domestic terrorism in the mid-1970s and resigned from the government after the kidnapping and murder of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro, died here Tuesday. He was 82. Mr. Cossiga had been admitted to Gemelli Hospital on Aug. 9 with heart and respiratory problems. His condition had turned... Full article »

ON LOCATION; In Italy, Framing (and Preserving) the View

August 4, 2010 By KIMBERLEY BRADLEY TIROL, Italy -- About three years ago, Michael Pirpamer, 51, finally moved out of his mother's house. The story isn't as strange as it at first seems. The veterinarian, who was born and raised here in this mountainside hamlet overlooking the Dolomites, a series of mountains that forms a section of the Alps, in Italy's far north, had returned to his... Full article »

Berlusconi Faces a No-Confidence Vote

August 4, 2010 By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO ROME -- The government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will face a no-confidence motion Wednesday because of the investigation of a Justice Ministry official implicated in an influence-peddling scandal. The center-right government is expected to survive the vote even though it lost its absolute majority in the lower house last week after the... Full article »

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