Marco d eramo biography definition
Predictions of American decline have multiplied over the past half-century, in tandem with the country's expanding world power.!
His father was a vintner and his mother's father worked as a farmer for a family of nobles.
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It is devastating to witness the death throes of so many cities. Splendid, opulent, hectic, for centuries, sometimes millennia, they had survived the vicissitudes of history: war, pestilence, earthquakes.
But now, one after another, they are withering, emptying, becoming reduced to theatrical backdrops against which a bloodless pantomime is staged. Where once life throbbed, and cantankerous humanity elbowed its way, pushing and shoving, now you will find only snack bars and stalls—all of them the same—selling ‘local specialities’: muslins, batiks, cottons, beach wraps, bracelets.
Luce d'Eramo (June 17, – March 6, ) was an Italian writer and literary critic.What was once a living torrent, full of shouts and fury, is now safely enclosed in a travel brochure. The death sentence is delivered from an elegant building in Paris—Place Fontenoy, Seventh Arrondissement—after a long drawn-out bureaucratic process.
The verdict is a label that cannot be removed—a brand, stamped on forever.footnote1
unesco’s ‘World Heritage’ listing is the kiss of death.