
Vivaldi & Others: Luigi Dallapiccola and the Struggle with Tyranny
Dallapiccola composed Il prigioniero, set against the backdrop of the Dutch Revolt, to protest Mussolini’s regime.
Dallapiccola composed Il prigioniero, set against the backdrop of the Dutch Revolt, to protest Mussolini’s regime.
Until the Day of Remembrance was instituted in 2004, the Italian victims of communist aggression were dismissed and forgotten.
The infamous influencer questioned the narrative that the Nazis were “bad guys.”
“It is Holy Night and there will be no shooting.” The soldiers agreed.
Ancient customs will continue to make the European winter nights bright.
A married Polish couple, who were killed with their children by the Nazis for hiding a Jewish family, will be declared worthy of veneration by the Catholic Church this year.
The German refusal is not surprising to the Poles. Yet, the Polish deputy foreign minister criticised the fact that the German response came without leaving room for discussion or negotiation.
The pope signed the decree on their martyrdom on his 86th birthday. It will allow the couple to be beatified, which is the last formal step before potential sainthood.
As a work of serial military fabulism, Ezquerra’s book is an interesting cultural artifact. I laughed more than once at the author’s sheer gall, but Ezquerra himself is an unpleasant figure. A literary liar is bad enough; a Nazi literary liar seems even more obscene.
Pope Pius XII was perfectly aware of the reality of the Shoah, so much so that he created an office within the Secretariat of State specifically dedicated to these issues. Pius XII tried—in vain—to alert the American authorities to what was happening in Europe, but the Americans did not believe it.