Category Archives: Italy

Manufacturing output plummets in Eurozone

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Antigone1984.com

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  5 November 2012 Manufacturing in the 17-state Eurozone fell for the eighth month in a row … Continue reading →

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Milan and McDonald’s: an oxymoron

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Antigone1984.com

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  24 October 2012  TURNED OUT THEY WASN’T LOVIN’ IT AFTER ALL! In these grey lacklustre downbeat … Continue reading →

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A Stoic’s take on the vanity of fame

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Antigone1984.com

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  18 October 2012 EST  MOBILIS CELEBRITAS …..τὸ δοξάριόν σε περισπάσει; ἀπιδὼν εἰς τὸ τάχος τῆς πάντων … Continue reading →

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Arrivederci, Roma!

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Antigone1984.com

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.    Rome, 29 May 2012   ARRIVADERCI, ROMA!       ► 2:31   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-prQ8AE_nvY   If … Continue reading →

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Papal woes

Posted on May 28, 2012 by Antigone1984.com

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  Rome, 28 May 2012 The Pope’s personal butler Paolo Gabriele is alleged to have been caught … Continue reading →

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Viator infelix

Posted on May 27, 2012 by Antigone1984.com

Rome, 27 May 2012 The self-doubting, personally insecure, English poet Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) was an unhappy tourist in Rome in 1849. Like most educated Victorians, Clough was very much preoccupied by religion, which to him and his contemporaries meant … Continue reading →

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SPQR

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Antigone1984.com

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.   Rome, 26 May 2012 Everywhere you go in Rome you come across the abbreviation SPQR. You … Continue reading →

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Love town

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Antigone1984.com

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.   Rome, 25 May 2012   R                                                                                                 A      O                                            =                                       M          M       … Continue reading →

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Roma felix

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Antigone1984.com

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.   Rome, 24 May 2012 CAPUT MUNDI Federico Fellini’s 1972 film “Roma” is a fictionalised autobiography of the … Continue reading →

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Shopping trolley in Campus Martius

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Antigone1984.com

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