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Today we celebrate a “splendid” fifty-year-old: in October 1975, a film hit Italian theaters that would soon become a true cult classic—Fantozzi, directed by Luciano Salce and starring Genoese comedian Paolo Villaggio, the creator of the character who, before hitting the big screen, had already been brought to life on television and in a series of...

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Whether you’re hunkered down under the polar vortex in North America or are bracing for the predicted snowfall in Europe, you are officially passing through what is known as “i giorni della merla” (the days of the blackbird), the period straddling the end of January and beginning of February that is traditionally considered the coldest of the year....

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