The tie is regal for its strut as well as its blue blood. Its dynasty get its ancestor from the Roman “Focale”, which appears in no less than emperor Trajan’s Column. The first one to speak of it was the philosopher Voltaire, having noticed the Croatian soldiers would wear one …

        It is the calm, the water, the sky, harmony, confidence, cleanliness and loyalty. Sadness and depression. When gazed upon for a long time, this color can produce an effect of quietude: just think of a landscape with the calm sea.

We had been waiting for one hour, me and the soup, the latter was getting cold, and I was getting warmer. Finally I heard hurried steps. Giannetta entered the room lively and merry and…with a new toilette – the third in a month. I frowned. -Don’t tell me off- she …

Mancano soltanto i drappi rossi come quelli che i cinesi di Prato appendono fuori dal capannone appena conquistato, perché tutti sappiano che i lavoratori italiani sono andati via e “adesso ci sono loro”. Ma per i piccoli imprenditori e artigiani di quel distretto romagnolo del divano, un tempo ricco e …

As of today, the only thing needed to let everyone know that the Italian workers have moved out, are the typical red drapes that Chinese businessmen living in Prato hang outside their newly –conquered warehouses, to show that “now they are the ones who have taken over”. Small local entrepreneurs …