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Robert Zaretsky

Professor of history at the Honors College, University of Houston, Texas, and author of France and Its Empire Since 1870, with Alice Conklin and Sarah Fishman, Oxford University Press, March 2010, and Albert Camus: Elements of a Life, Cornell University Press, 2010.

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Libyan-Italian relations: Forget the elephants!

by Robert Zaretsky

Houston (United States) | 15 March 2011

Though Italy’s political disarray cannot in any sense be compared to the civil war raging across the Mediterranean in Libya, its former colony, neither country’s troubles are new. Their troubles are, instead, as old and timeless as Virgil’s epic poem, the Aeneid, which sets the stage for the (…)