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Frances D'Emilio

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New Yorker with a European perspective. Following/ writing about/ progress and setbacks for women. Ditto on organized crime. I'm Half Roman on Substack.
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Fighting Femicide in Italy

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By Frances D'Emilio
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Two years ago this fall, Italians flocked to see a new blockbuster. The film told the fictional story of a Roman homemaker who, beaten and belittled by her possessive husband, dreamed for her daughter to escape the same destiny. “There’s Still Tomorrow” is a cinematic exploration of the suffocating role that patriarchy, cutting across social classes, played in Italy as the nation emerged from World War II and as Italian women were about to vote for the first time.
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Wordless in Italy

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By Frances D'Emilio
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For the longest time, while living in Italy, I sought in vain to find the right word in Italian to translate a couple of common English words. One is “pattern,” and the other is “texture.” Thanks for reading Half Roman! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. My quest was piqued by a fellow U.S. journalist, who had covered Milan fashion shows for various publications. “Italian really doesn’t have a word for either,’’ she would say. How strange, I thought.
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Papal proverbs & personal history

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By Frances D'Emilio
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With a papal election looming, this proverb is oft-quoted: He who enters the conclave as a pope, leaves as a cardinal. The warning is clear to ambitious and overconfident “papabili” -- likely cardinal candidates. In Rome, the proverb finds usage beyond conclaves. When Parliament is poised to pick the president of the Italian republic, the nation’s highest office, politicians, pundits and the press tout notables in a kind of lay “papabile” lineup.
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