VINCI - Leonardo da Vinci, the unrivalled genius of the Renaissance, described himself as “omo sanza lettere” or “unschooled.” The child of an unmarried mother, he was born on the April 15, 1452, at Anchiano, three kilometres outside the small town of Vinci, in a humble farmhouse that was part of the estate of his father, Ser Piero da Vinci, a local notary.
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ROME - Some problems just don’t go away. Five years ago, The Italian Insider reported on the country’s youth unemployment issues. At that time, approximately 46 per cent of young people in Italy were without a job — the highest figure since 1977. Youth unemployment was clearly a problem then. Now, five years later Italy’s economy is weighed down by pervasive youth unemployment.
1 May 2019
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MILAN – Silvio Berlusconi has been admitted to hospital for acute kidney pain, according to sources from Forza Italia.
He was picked up in an ambulance and taken to the San Raffaele hospital in Milan. It was stressed, however, that this was only a precaution.
He is understood to be suffering from renal colic, abdominal pain commonly associated with kidney stones.
30 Apr 2019
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BARI – When the 9-year old son of a local gangster arrived for his First Communion in a bright red Ferrari, it angered the priest, according to the Corriere della Sera.
His father, who is a mobster from Bari, is currently in prison and was denied permission to attend the service.
That did not stop his son arriving in style around 13:00 on Monday at the Redentore church, in the notorious neighbourhood of Libertà in Bari. A few metres away, the Rai journalist Mariagrazia Mazzola was attacked by the wife of another gangster last year.
30 Apr 2019
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NOTTINGHAM - All six members of a gang that murdered Mariam Moustafa in the United Kingdom last year have now confessed to their crimes, judicial sources have said.
Moustafa, an Italian citizen of Egyptian descent who grew up in Ostia, died in a hospital in Nottingham after being beaten up by members of a local gang in a racially motivated attack. Three seventeen-year-old girls, two fifteen-year-olds and a nineteen-year-old were arrested in connection with the murder.
30 Apr 2019
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VITERBO - The coalition government is split once more over chemical castration following the rape of a 36-year-old lady in a private club by a councillor and a militant member of the neo-fascist political party CasaPound.
Speaking after news of the ordeal broke, Salvini said: "Yet another rape, prison is not enough. On Saturday and Sunday in squares across Italy the League will collect signatures in support of its bill to introduce chemical castration (in addition to prison sentences) to cure paedophiles and rapists."
30 Apr 2019
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ROME - The National Statistics Institute (ISTAT) has announced that Italy is on course to leave behind its technical recession and see a GDP growth of 0.2 per cent at the end of the first trimester as well as a reduction in unemployment.
30 Apr 2019
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PREDAPPIO - Italy’s state-run news outlet RAI has come under fire for broadcasting footage of a neo-fascist commemoration of Benito Mussolini with no contextualisation or condemnation of the leader’s dictatorial rule.
RAI televised over two minutes of footage of a commemorative event to Mussolini in Predappio, in the Emilia-Romagna region, that was attended by circa 300 people.
The broadcast showed far right supporters of the deceased dictator perform the roman salute, shed tears at Mussolini’s crypt, and hark back nostalgically to his rule.
30 Apr 2019
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ROME - Atalanta struck twice in the space of 5 second half minutes to see off a spirited Udinese display and jump into fourth place in the Serie A, above both AC Milan and Roma.
The Bergamo side were frustrated for much of the match, Juan Musso in the Udinese net repeatedly denying Atalanta with a string of fine stops.
The home side tallied up an impressive eight shots on target from their 15 in total, but it took until the 81st minute for them to take the lead.
30 Apr 2019