‘I should like to have accurate information about the AMFIAM which is what the people of this land use, and we call OPIUM,’ de Orta’s interlocutor announces (the book is written as a dialogue between ...

Italy is often thought of as a political laboratory, anticipating events in other countries: fascism in the 1920s; the showman-businessman turned politician in the 1990s; populism in the 2010s. Great ...