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Berlusconi: Back Again Through The Back Door

Judith Harris

Assailed by a hailstorm of legal troubles, one-time Premier and Senator Silvio Berlusconi, 79, was kicked out of the front door of the Senate thirteen months ago. This week...

Renzi, Berlusconi Bank on the New-Look Future

Judith Harris

“Italicum” – the agreement for reform of Italy’s election system hatched last February by that unlikely couple, Matteo Renzi and Silvio Berlusconi – still looks a bit...

Elections, Expulsions and the Polls

Judith Harris

The proposal for a revision of the election process finally made it into the Chamber of Deputies this week, as neo-Premier Matteo Renzi had promised, but it does not quite...

Pimples, Warts & All. "Paint my Picture Truly Like Me!"

Judith Harris

"Paint my picture truly like me," Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) told the artist about to paint his portrait, "pimples, warts, and everything as you see me." Is this what Silvio...

A Specter Haunting Italy

Stanislao G. Pugliese

On the eve of what seems to be the end of the Berlusconi Era, historian Stanislao Pugliese, Distinguished Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies, looks at the past two...

Silvio and Sophia, Two Styles

judith harris

He was surely expecting it, but when the latest judiciary act involving former Premier Silvio Berlusconi arrived on Oct. 23, by all accounts it nevertheless came as una tegola in...

Berlusconi. The Beginning of the End

Judith Harris

After threatening to torpedo the government, Silvio Berlusconi voted today to continue to share power with the Partito Democratico (PD). The former Premier's surprise about-face,...

It's to the Matts, Guys ....

judith harris

Saturday's five-hour powwow at Silvio Berlusconi's villa at Arcore, near Milan, was attended by his entire roster of backers. The aim: to decide what political moves remain open...

Napolitano Has the Last Word, for Now...

judith harris

Through careful mediation, President Giorgio Napolitano has succeeded in calming at least some of the troubled waters of political Italy. This is a victory for Italy, for justice,...

Berlusconi: "Still on the Playing Field"

Judith Harris

Because he is over 70 years of age, Silvio Berlusconi will not actually go to prison for the coming year, but will serve his sentence either under house arrest or re-education at...

Cassations Decides on Berlusconi

Judith Harris

At 8:04 pm Silvio Berlusconi, 77-year-old former premier, learned from the TV set in his huge apartment within Palazzo Grazioli, just steps away from Palazzo Venezia in Rome,...

Habemus Presidentam? Not Just Yet

judith harris

Election of a new president remained a will o' the wisp on Day Two of the vote. At 7 pm the joint parliamentary session was suspended after Romano Prodi received only 395 votes -...

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