Vittorio Vandelli– Author –
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Who killed Giulio Regeni?
Of Arab Springs turned dictatorships, state tortures and murders, commercial bonds over human life: one year after, we don’t have to live and let Giulio die. Shocked, outraged, bewildered, overwhelmed: that’s how I feel today, on the six... -
“Theirs is a cultural richness like no other”: Italy’s earthquakes and the loss of great human fabric
On October 30, 2016 another tremendous earthquake hit central Italy again, the greatest one in the last decades of a series that started in August, killed almost 300 people and destroyed the cultural treasures of the medieval small towns... -
29 Settembre: happy birthday to Modena ‘beat’ music capital
When the folk revival and then the rock revolution of the 60s arrived in Italy, it landed in Modena. Amid Ferrari and Maserati cars, balsamic vinegar producers, tortellini restaurants and small industrial enterprises scattered around the... -
My top ten non-fiction books about today’s Italy (in English) – and a modest picture of the country
My top ten books are a virtual guided tour that wants to take you to the heart and the soul of what may seem like the most European of countries. It’s a voyage, sometimes dark and sometimes funny, throughout “Good Italy” and “Bad Italy”,... -
Education in Italy (part two): the foul play of Berlusconi’s and Renzi’s reforms
In Education in Italy part one I describe the decline of the Italian Education system since the beginning of the new century and the birth of the scuola/azienda, of the student/customer and of the consumers’ school, with its parallel dow... -
Education in Italy (part one): Nothing worth Teaching can be Taught?
Education in Italy: Nothing worth Teaching can be Taught? In Education in Italy part one I’ll describe the decline of the Italian Education system since the beginning of the new century and the birth of the scuola/azienda, of the student... -
Well-fed young television-watchers or freedom fighters? Of juvenile rebelliousness and social commitment
Since my book on Italian society in the last ventennio is also a warning against the contemporary erosion of democracy in the Western World - as I have said time and again, the Italy of the so-called Berlusconi Age is a privileged observ... -
Mafia Capitale: dirty hands over the Eternal City
Mafia Capitale: a shocking Christmas gift to Italian people As I write in the introduction of my book on Berlusconi's Italy, later that year [2014], we discovered that also Rome was not willing to stay behind [Milan and Venice, in w... -
Migrants’ Holocaust, the modern Middle Passage: do we really care ?
Migrants’ Holocaust: the second anniversary of the greatest migrants’ tragedy of the XXI century On October 3, 2015 the tiny island of Lampedusa, South of Sicily, celebrated the second anniversary of the greatest migrants’... -
Genoa G8 summit in 2001: the days Berlusconi’s Italy went back to fascism
The police street violence at the Genoa G8 summit against the peaceful protesters and the raid at their headquarters - the Diaz school - in July 2001 is one of those episodes a country must be deeply ashame...
