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FLORENCE – Sara Funaro headed towards Palazzo Vecchio

The center-left candidate Sara Funaro will be the new mayor of Florence. Her competitor, former director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt, running for the center-right, lagged significantly behind in the polls. Born in Florence in 1976 and of Jewish …

SCHOOL – Anne Frank, diaries and social media

28.9% of the students in Italy who faced this year’s first session of the high school graduation exam chose Anne Frank. Or, more precisely, an excerpt by Maurizio Caminito from Profiles, selfies, and blogs citing Anne Frank’s diary. So are …

UNIVERSITY – A manifesto against anti-Zionist consensus

Over twenty Italian universities have endorsed the “National Manifesto for the Right to Education.” The core of the manifesto, presented in Milan and initiated by university students, calls for moving beyond the attempts of a minority of university peers—associated with …