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• A short walk along the edge of the new year, the practice abandoned, the urban decay and the cheeky faces on the walls

  posted by Antonio Carbone — January 01, 2010

  Plastic glasses, a few bottles of sparkling wine, several boxes of fireworks ripped.  No trace of broken dishes. No one that, fallen by accident, it is just crumbled. At nine thirty in the morning around there is nobody yet. The few you see are far apart, with a dog on a leash. The first greetings I exchange on Tuscolana, at the height of Numidio Quadrato, with a Bengali, sitting next to a petrol pump...

• Purchases of Mid-August: the vu’ cumpra’ through the streets of Rome and on the beach

  posted by Antonio Carbone — August 17, 2009

  400, 500, 600... how many kilometres, at a minimum, you must be away from home to be considered a foreigner? Having done in the past few hundreds too, for reasons of work, sometimes I ask myself this question. Like now that I am on the beach, just over 100 kilometres from Rome, and I can not help but dwell on the faces of the dense rank of vendors, who paraded in front of me every few minutes apart.   To reach this place, this early morning,  I took the regional train that goes to Pisa...

• Paris-Rome: games of prestige

  posted by Elisa Brilli — February 18, 2008 — 2 comments

  Italian friends ask me about our prestige beyond the Alps... At seven o'clock in the evening in the second arrondissement, Fucxia, our chain of wine shops, is crowded. Usual queue even in front of Amorino, while the rue de Petits Champs tickles your eyes with very expensive italian products.Shop windows apart, at the end of January Le Monde defineds us as: " Un pays immobile et divisé, alors que le reste du monde a changé”" and a few days later: " La compétitivité de l'Italie s'est effondrée depuis cinq ans." Liberation ends the analysis on our government crisis with: " Ce pays est réellement...