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Custom Teaser:  Reader Nicholas Calvano tells Italy Magazine what happened when, after making contact with his Italian relatives, he and his wife went to see them. Nick Calvano told his story to Pat Eggleton Reader Nicholas Calvano tells Italy Magazine what happened when, after making contact with his Italian relatives, he and his wife went to see them

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Nicolas Calvano’s story – Finding my Italian relatives – Part 2

In this photo: The Club – a night club in Milan

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Canalis implicated in cocaine scandal

In this photo: Italian soccers Antonio Di Natale, Federico Marchetti, Domenico Criscito, Vincenzo Iaquinta, Claudio Marchisio – D&G Underwear Campaign – Photo by Mariano Vivanco

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D&G for the blues

Italy has an almost endless number of beautiful villages.  Many are unspoiled medieval villages situated on hilltops, others are dotted along Italy’s coastline, and some are tucked away in Italy’s many mountainous corners.  The choice is nothing short of bewildering.  Luckily there is a list. Someone has thoughtfully created a list of Italy’s most beautiful villages and it can be found over on a website called ‘I Borghi Più Belli D’Italia’. This official website set up by the National Association of Italian Municipalities , from which one can also purchase an 800 page guide in English to the huge number of beautiful villages of Italy, is addictive

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How to Find a List of the Most Beautiful Villages in Italy

The next Milan Fashion Week, which will run from September 22nd – 28th, will be a show worthy of the city, Mayor Letizia Moratti has vowed. In February the prêt-à-porter event was cut to four days to suit the schedule of Anna Wintour, the editor of American Vogue.

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Milan Fashion Week will be special, says Mayor

Italian magazine Internazionale contains a section entitled ‘How others See Italy’, or words to that effect.  It was in this section that I came across Alexander Stille’s pertinent and relevant article ‘Married to the Italian Mob’ . It was on the way back on the train from Genoa yesterday that I read our friend Cristina’s copy of the magazine Internazionale which contains articles from major media sources from around the world that have been translated into Italian. As you may have been able to gather from the title of Stille’s article, it was about organised crime, namely, Italy’s age old mafia problem, which, Professor Stille intimates, may well worsen.

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Italy’s Mafia Could become an Explosive Problem

Italian magazine Internazionale contains a section entitled ‘How others See Italy’, or words to that effect.  It was in this section that I came across Alexander Stille’s pertinent and relevant article ‘Married to the Italian Mob’ . It was on the way back on the train from Genoa yesterday that I read our friend Cristina’s copy of the magazine Internazionale which contains articles from major media sources from around the world that have been translated into Italian.

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Italy’s Mafia Could become an Explosive Problem

There are some mighty big bugs in Italy.  Some of the wasps I’ve seen are huge, and scary.  Luckily, for those of you who are like me: not the world’s greatest bug fans, these miniature giants of the Italian bug world are not often to be spotted. But they are there, and, boy, are some of them big beasties.  The beast you are about to see, which was apparently some 3 inches (7cm) in length, and thus not exactly tiny in bug terms, was found beetling around the Carso area of Italy . For the uninitiated, the Carso zone is also, and perhaps better, known as the kras , karst, or karst plateau .  In actual fact, it is this limestone plateau area that straddles the border between Italy and Slovenia which gave the world the term Karst topography .  End of geography lesson.

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Big Bugs Cast Shadows Over Italy

Photo courtesy of Vislab Two Piaggio Porter driverless vans left Milan on Tuesday on an epic journey which will take them through Moscow, Siberia, Mongolia and the Gobi Desert to Shanghai, reports the Telegraph. The vans, powered by electric engines and equipped with state-of-the-art computer technology, have solar panels in their roofs to power the computers

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From Milan to Shanghai by van – driverless

Strange days in Italy.  Whilst digging into illicit goings on surrounding the awarding of contracts for wind farms in Sardinia, Italy’s Carabinieri police appear to have uncovered the insidious sequel to a mysterious illegal masonic group known as Propaganda 2, or P2 for short.  Italy’s press have wasted no time in labelling the sequel, Propaganda 3. Or P3 for short. P2, for those not familiar with one of the more insidious aspects of Italy’s past, was regarded by some as being a ‘state within a state’, or shadow government.  Curiously, a title similar to the ‘state within a state’ moniker is also sometimes used to refer to the Sicilian mafia, which is known to some as the ‘state within the state’.  Notice the ever-so-slightly different articles – ‘a’ and ‘the’.  And yes, it is suspected that there was collusion between the ‘state within a state’ and the ‘state within the state’.

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Italy, One, P2, P3