Tag Archives: Giuseppe Verdi

A dark warning to Trump about his glittery monarchy

New ideas of socialism were in the air. They were spreading through Europe, and it was not only in France that men accounted it an infamous anachronism that the great mass of a community should toil and sweat and suffer … Continue reading

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Do not read this novel! Read the review

A thousand years ago, an Italian-American friend, a vehement partisan, told me I had to read the Great Italian Novel. Which I’d never heard of. As I said, she was vehement; there was no room for evasion. So I bought … Continue reading

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