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Moments of fear in Piazza della Signoria, Florence, for a runaway horse that launched into a gallop, dragging a carriage behind it that crashed into a car escorted by the Minister of the Interior, Luciana Lamorgese.
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Italy has performed the world’s first heart transplants from COVID-positive donors to virus-negative recipients in Bologna and Rome. A 15-year-old boy received a new heart at Rome’s Bambino Gesù Hospital at mid-May and a 64-year-old man got a new heart at Bologna’s Sant’Orsola Hospital at the end of April.
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Open call for models casting for the Polimoda Final Graduation Show 2021 during Pitti. Polimoda in Florence searching for models who currently live in Florence or Tuscany of diverse backgrounds and genders for their upcoming fashion show. They are looking for individuals who are both beautiful and edgy.
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The Concept Context Content exhibition opened in Florence on 7 June. It’s set up at the Limonaia of Villa Vogel, Via delle Torri in collaboration with the District 4.
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On June 14 in Athens, for the Megaron Gala, maestro Zubin Mehta with the Orchestra del Maggio and violinist Pinchas Zukerman was in a concert at the Acropolis at the Odeon Herodes Atticus theater.
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The pic of the week is a little girl getting a drink of water in Rome in 2014, sent by Lynda C. Magliochetti.
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Most part of Italy are set to be classed as low COVID-19 risk white zone since June 14, 2021.
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C’è un’attrice che mi ricorda la bella Elena di Troia. Oggi guardando i miei social ho visto un video di questa attrice, che usava i filtri di Instagram. Ho pensato che la bellezza oggi, quella naturale e universale, non basta più.
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There is an actress who reminds me of the beautiful Helen of Troy. I saw a video of this actress, using Instagram filters. The beauty today, the natural and universal one, is no longer enough. On social media we have reached a point where we admire and believe in something that does not exist.
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Nanni Moretti’s new film, Tre Piani, will be among the contenders for the Palme d’Or at the 74th Cannes Film Festival, organisers announced on June 3. The film, is an adaptation of Israeli writer Eshkol Nevo’s novel Three Floors Up.
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