Vittorio Vandelli– Author –

In 2013 I wrote a whole chapter dedicated to the trattativa stato-mafia in my book about Berlusconi when just a few believed it had happened. Proud of it. Thank you Di Matteo is my first tweet after the sentence (trattativa stato-mafia&n...

You’ll see no Rome, Florence, Venice or Taormina in this diary. Instead, I’ll take you to small unknown places of rare beauty often harbouring next to territorial or industrial diseases, ‘ugliness’ of various kinds that makes Italy the c...

You’ll see no Rome, Florence, Venice or Taormina in this diary. Instead, I’ll take you to small unknown places of rare beauty often harbouring next to territorial or industrial diseases, ‘ugliness’ of various kind that makes Italy the cr...

The courage, the stress, the loneliness, the fatigue, the hard work, the uncertainties, the toughness of a war voluntarily chosen for a high moral duty. What happens when you take on the establishment? In this blistering, personal accoun...

Exsiles (J. Joyce) - James (P. Everett) - Il regno fragile (Tiziana Prezzo) - 68 – Ce n’est qu’un debut… (Paolo Brogi) - Storie di sport e poltica (A. Molinari, G. Toni) - A Year in Provence (P. Mayle) - Soprannome Dreamer (G. Luppi) boo...

book-shields The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music Announces Two-Night Historic Curated Concert Celebrating America’s 250th Birthday Music America: The Songs that Shaped Us playlist concert 1 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=P...

Vasco Rossi’s Modena Park means 220.000 paying spectators at the concert. Is this a modern-day Woodstock or just a megalomaniac product? Is the rebellious spirit of Woodstock still here or are the children-parents-grandparents singing al...

Mafia Republic: Italy's Criminal Curse. Cosa Nostra, 'ndrangheta and Camorra from 1946 to the Present by John DickieMy rating: 5 of 5 stars ... a wise traveller should bring this book with him on an Italian holiday and read it while tann...

The essay Brave New World Revisited is an astonishing prediction of the XXI century's shrinking democracy in the West. Here is an annotated long extract I edited as part of my research work for Silvio Berlusconi's Italy. In times of...

1992 is modern Italy’s D-year. It is the time of the death of the decadent First Republic and the birth of the more degenerate Second one, which is probably about to end these days. It is the year of Mani Pulite (Clean Hands, or Tangento...