Italian elections: Berlusconi, Northern League, stomp
If I were a free man, I would live in Italy.
But the dollar/euro is killing that pipedream.
Silvio Berlusconi, too, just won a third tour as prime minister, atop a right-center coalition led by the erstwhile recessionist Northern League (which, generally thinking, considers the poverty and corruption of the South un-Italian and, at least in bygone years, wanted out of the rather abstract republic cobbled together by Cavour (brain), Mazzini (heart) and Garibaldi (sword), not so long ago).
But Italian societies, throughout the peninsula and down into Sicily, are so strong that it seems to matter much less what goes on in the state capital.
Vuolo una vita nuova, dolce e simpatica — c’e un sogno, vero. Pero, io sono uomo, devro [dream] … Triste — ventri anni fa, io parlatto la lingua comme un matto etruscano ….
bernthal says:
um, secessionist, not recessionist.
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
ed says:
Gotcha!
I knew if I planted a dumb error I’d draw a comment.
Thank you for participating.
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Ilidas says:
As they still say in the proofreading salons, good catch!
If there’s something sickening about the Berlusconi-No. League redux, your hopeful words re the Italian “societies” give some comfort. Exile-wise, I’d prefer Italy to Canada but the language skills would need to be revived.
April 24th, 2008 at 4:18 pm