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Does anybody remember Queen MarieAntoiniette?
Here in Italy we're running out of cakes, too, and our political class doesn't seem very much aware of it.
This work portraits Mr. Massimo D'Alema, former leader of the main Italian left party and former member of the Italian Communist Party.
The sentences within the tools are quotes from some of his public speeches and underline his high political profile.

an old painting of mine

Does anybody remember Queen MarieAntoiniette?
Here in Italy we're running out of cakes, too, and our political class doesn't seem very much aware of it.
This work portraits Mrs. Mara Carfagna, former pin-up girl and current minister for equal opportunities of the Italian Republic.
The sentences within the tools are quotes from some of her public speeches and underline her high political profile and the severe condition of my poor country.

Does anybody remember Queen MarieAntoiniette?
Here in Italy we're running out of cakes, too, and our political class doesn't seem very much aware of it. The sentences within the president's outline are quotes from some of his public speeches and underline his high political profile.

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All non Italians will easily find on-line enough info about Mr. Aldo Moro.
A tiny path trail into Italian contemporary history and its spy-fi like flavour.

From jpop.com:
Gino Paoli (born 23 September 1934) is an Italian singer-songwriter. Paoli was born in Monfalcone, but moved very early to Genoa. After several different jobs, he was called by Ricordi with his friends Luigi Tenco and Bruno Lauzi. His first success was the single "La gatta". This was followed by "Sapore di sale", arranged by Ennio Morricone. In the same year he attempted suicide by shooting at his heart, but he survived

From wikipedia:
Mario Monicelli (16 May 1915 – 29 November 2010) was an Italian director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana (Comedy Italian style), three times nominated for the Accademy [...] Reportedly, Monicelli jumped from his 5th floor hospital window and landed near the entrance to the ER where many patients and relatives congregated. He had been in and out of the hospital over the years for the treatment of prostate cancer. An unnamed person close to Mario Monicelli said he died from the window leap to commit suicide as he was not aging well and tired of getting old. He was an atheist.

This work has been inspired by the follwing scene from the movie Amici Miei (Friends of mine, directed of course by MOnicelli):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA7s_K9M0PY

Mr. Brunetta is minister of public administration and innovation in the 4th Berlusconi government, rumors say it was appointed because he's shorter than the boss, although he doesn't walk on heels.

Questioned in June 2011 by some temporary workers serving in his ministry about their ridiculous employment conditions, Brunetta left the press conference in a rush addressig his employees as "the worst part of Italy"

O Roma o Morte! (Rome or death!)was one of Garibaldi's mottos, cried out loudly by his soldiers and followers especially during the Roman Republic Experience (1849) after years of struggling for conquering Rome. Murderers remain such regardless of their cause, yet what can turn them into heros? Victory or rather our standpoint?

Cakes are almost over

Cakes are almost over

Cakes are almost over

Cakes are almost over

Cakes are almost over

Cakes are almost over

Cakes are almost over

Cakes are almost over

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.