#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
#italy
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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
#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
A fountain of imagination: These Italian treasures inspired the world’s literary greats https://www.byteseu.com/807975/ #Books #Italy #literature #TourOfItaly #TravelDestinations #writer
#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
Another misty morning view down the wolf road
#photography #PhotoOfTheDay #darktable #umbria #italy
#italia #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #photo
#silentsunday
Jürgen Hubert commented on Don Camillo by Giovannino Guareschi (I romanzi di Don Camillo)
Il mondo della Bassa, irruente e sanguigno, e i due protagonisti, il parroco don Camillo …
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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...
An Italian artist created this work in two stages in Naples.
#art #italy #napoli #nazis #NIEWIEDERISTJETZT #niewieder #musk
Gear:
• Sony α6400
• Sony 18-105 mm f/4
#animal #cat #cats #catsofmastodon #catsofpixelfed #caturday #italy #photography #rome
To end the year a photo from yesterday morning of some beautifully coloured leaves against the frosty blue/green background of my garden.
#photography #PhotoOfTheDay #darktable #umbria #italy
#italia #nature #landscape #photo
Wisteria seed pods in the light of the setting winter sun.
#photography #PhotoOfTheDay #darktable #umbria #italy
#italia #nature #photo #silentsunday
In the silence of Sunday, nature reclaims its spaces, free to express itself as the rituals of other species unfold far from human noise.
#SilentSunday #Peace #Silence #Autumn #Italy #Photography #Photo #Sunset #Silence
So now that I have a database of 60+ women who have written about visiting Rome between the 15th century and the 1960s... should this be a book? I would love to make this a book.
#Rome #travel #WomensHistory #Italy #books #bookstodon #writing #history