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‘We Are a Romantic Country’: On the Set of a Steamy
Hit in Italy
from The New York Times, 3rd August
2023
Italy falls for “Mare Fuori,” a television melodrama about the inmates of a juvenile detention center who pass the time making out — when not scowling at or occasionally stabbing one another.
Before dawn, the teenage girls convened outside the Naples Navy base where the wildly popular Italian television show “Mare Fuori” is filmed.
“We want to show them all of our love,” said Federica Montuori, 16, who with her fellow fans unfurled white sheets with spray-painted messages expressing how the lead actors, who play star-crossed — and mobbed-up — lovers in a juvenile prison, “belong in our hearts.”
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| Don Quijote y Sancho Panza by Pablo Picasso |
Because the modern man of the sixteenth century has revolutionized the nature of warfare by the invention of gunpowder, the institution of knighthood has declined and disappeared. Jousts, armor, and lances are obsolete in the new world called “The Iron Age.”
As the military practice of knighthood has become outdated, the virtues of the knight have also become relics of the past.
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| Image from the Italian movie Martin Eden (2019) |
