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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 (…)