Category Archives: Foto

Wine Windows

Posted on October 22, 2020 by babbityjean

Sometime between the bubonic plagues of the 1300s and 1600s in Europe, wine merchants in Tuscany built “wine windows” to prevent buyers and sellers from coming into close contact.  These arched windows were small openings on the facades of palazzos … Continue reading →

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Mussolini e Trump

Posted on October 8, 2020 by babbityjean

Questo è il primo di una serie in due parti sul fascismo.  La prossima settimana: Le domande di Albright All’inizio del suo libro, “Fascismo: Un Avvertimento”, Madeleine Albright cita Primo Levi (1919-1987), un chimico italiano, un partigiano, un sopravvissuto all’Olocausto … Continue reading →

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Mussolini and Trump

Posted on October 8, 2020 by babbityjean

At the outset of her book, “Fascism: A Warning,” Madeleine Albright quotes Primo Levi (1919 -1987), an Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer: “Every age has its own Fascism.”  It is true today in Europe and the United States … Continue reading →

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