Elisabetta Burba

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Elisabetta Burba is an Italian journalist who has been covering foreign affairs for the last 32 years. She holds a master’s degree in humanities and speaks English, German, French, and Spanish. She’s writing a book about World War II in Italy’s northeastern corner, Carnia, inspired by her mother’s stories about the partisan war, which unravels between Cossack invaders, Tito’s emissaries and British SOE agents. She dreams of owning a winery in Marche region with her husband and her two sons.

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    How Groups Around the World Celebrated Italy’s New Holiday, Dante’s Day

    Elisabetta Burba
    March 25 was a cold, gray day in Italy, and not only because of the COVID-19 lockdown. A chilly wind was coming from the snow-covered Alps, and rain began just before 1 p.m. But thousands of students, teachers, intellectuals, and academics, locked in their houses because of the coronavirus, opened their windows, went to their…
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