“The blackest despair that can take hold of any society is the fear that living honestly is futile.” Italian journalist Corrado Alvaro, quoted in the Sydney Australian “The way to procure insults is ...

Florence: fifty years ago Luigi Russo, at the time Director of the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, asked for "seriousness of endeavour and unbiased critical orientation". Continued in 1961 by his ...