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To understand what is happening – and what is no t happening – in Italy these days, you have to start with the realization that what constitutes “public morality” here and in the United States is quite different. Without going...

Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize-winning writer, came to Milan recently to promote her latest book, A Mercy , just now available in Italian. One advantage of being an expat is that you hear about these things (Americans hear about the American celebrities...

So what is the solution for Italy’s educated, elegant, but inadequately assertive professional women? The recession may be a blessing in disguise for them. The moderator of the Women’s Forum, Laura la Porta, who writes for Il Sole/24 Ore ...

A few weeks ago, an Italian woman became this country’s version of Terri Schiavo – including the same hypocritical posturing and self-interested politicking of that sad case in Florida four years ago. Now, Italy prides itself on being a civilized...