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Taras Grescoe 🚇

In addition to being a #straphanger, Pope Francis was a #railfan.

Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, he was the son of a railway worker in #Argentina.

"In 2015, one of #Italy’s railway unions made him a member – an honour he quietly renewed each year."

https://www.railtech.com/all/2025/04/23/pope-of-the-people-man-of-the-rails-the-quiet-power-of-franciss-love-for-trains/?gdpr=accept

WildUmbria

The first of what might be a few dandelion clock photos. This was this morning when they were looking a bit bedraggled after yesterdays rain.

#photography #PhotoOfTheDay #darktable #umbria #italy
#italia #nature #bloomscrolling #spring #photo #wildflowers

a central dandelion seed head, looking spiky because wet, surrounded by a lush green background and spikes of wet grass

fracicone :verified:

😺 A little gray tiger seems AI made but is beautifully real.
#catsofmastodon #catstodon #cats #cat #caturdayeveryday #bressanone #brixen #italy #italia #gatti #gatto #katzen #katze #Sudtirol #sudtirolo #straycats #straycat #caturday

A gray stray cat sits behind a small bush an peeps around it.

guizz

Hiking uphill along an old trail in the woods

#SilentSunday #fog #trees #path #hiking #naturephotography #bealpine #Italy #vsco #vscocam #U5

A trail in the woods with trees and fog all around

WildUmbria

Dandelions & Daisies.

#photography #PhotoOfTheDay #darktable #umbria #italy
#italia #nature #bloomscrolling #spring #photo #wildflowers

Close-up of a lawn full of spring flowers.

WildUmbria

I love the curves and undulations of this nearby hillside.

#photography #PhotoOfTheDay #darktable #italy
#italia #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #photo #silentsunday

A bright green grass field in a long focus shot. The land is undulating and slopes down to the right. A stand of poplar trees on a ridge casts long diagonal shadows across the field. Behind the field a dark woodland punctuated by the occasional flowering tree.

Glyn Moody

#Italy demands Google poison #DNS under strict #PiracyShield law - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/italian-court-orders-google-to-block-iptv-pirate-sites-at-dns-level/ a stupid law is destroying the foundations of the Internet #copyright

Assoc for Scottish Literature replied to Assoc for Scottish Literature's status

The Scenic Route to Humphry Clinker

Dr Ronnie Young shows how Smollett’s cantankerous Travels Through France and Italy – a “journal of gripes, snipes and stereotypes” – laid the groundwork for his finest novel

4/5

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2012/05/the-scenic-route-to-humphry-clinker-smolletts-travels-through-france-and-italy/

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #Smollett #travelwriting #Italy

The Spanish Steps deserted, no queues at the Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain in monumental silence. 5 years ago, Rome stood still during the #Covid19 lockdown in #Italy. A documentary photo exhibition looks back at this surreal moment in time:

https://galerie.biblhertz.it/en/lockdown/
via Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome

Collosseum. Exterior view of the Flavian amphitheater from the northeast. Photo: Marcello Leotta

Trevi Fountain. View of the monumental Trevi Fountain on the south facade of Pallazzo Poli. Photo: Macello Leotta

Piazza di Spagna. View over Fontana della Barcaccia to the Spanish Steps and the facade of Trinita del Monti. Photo: Marcello Leotta

Bytes Europe

A fountain of imagination: These Italian treasures inspired the world’s literary greats https://www.byteseu.com/807975/ #Books #Italy #literature #TourOfItaly #TravelDestinations #writer

frassati frassati

#sicilia #sicily #happyisland #isolafelice #italy
#KM3NeT #Neutrino #Energia #Sicilia #Astrofisica #Scientifica #RicercaScientifica #InnovazioneScientifica #Scoperta #CapoPassero #Energy #Astrophysics #Scientific #ScientificResearch #ScientificInnovation #Discovery

Scoperta rivoluzionaria in Sicilia: neutrino ad alta energia rilevato sott'acqua https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/neutrino-record-rivela-nuovi-orizzonti-astrofisica-particelle-AGOpGPqC

WildUmbria

Another misty morning view down the wolf road

#photography #PhotoOfTheDay #darktable #umbria #italy
#italia #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #photo
#silentsunday

View down a dirt road between trees towards the light of the rising sun. The misty air is glowing in tones of yellow and orange.

Jürgen Hubert commented on Don Camillo by Giovannino Guareschi (I romanzi di Don Camillo)

Giovannino Guareschi: Don Camillo (Paperback, Italiano language, 2017, Rizzoli)

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Il mondo della Bassa, irruente e sanguigno, e i due protagonisti, il parroco don Camillo …

Content warning On "Prima storia"

Post-war #Italy must have been pretty hardcore:

A man's youngest son falls deathly ill, and the physicians tell him that "only God can help him now!" Then he commands his family to pray, and when his son gets worse, he goes to the village priest and tells him:

"Only you can make God understand that my son is dying, and that he needs to help him!

And if my son doesn't get better: Well, in this package I have five sticks of dynamite from the mines, and if my son doesn't survive, I will blow up the church!"

I mean, yes, this book is a work of fiction, but even fiction has to seem reasonably plausible to the audience...