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  1. Dec 2019
    1. From Italy they visited Germany and France. I, their eldest child, was born at Naples

      In the 1818 edition Victor says that he was "by birth a Genevese," his only reference to his own birth. The implication there is that he was born in Geneva, but the 1831 edition instead places his birth in Naples. Soon afterward we learn that when his family discovered Elizabeth, her mother is Italian.

  2. Mar 2019
  3. Oct 2017
    1. In South Tyrol, which belonged to neighboring Austria prior to the First World War and still feels strongly connected to German-speaking culture despite now being party of Italy, local parties have so far also failed to transform the widespread wish for independence into a powerful political movement.

      hmmm author "fail" to mention that South Tyrol have a large control over tax money collected from that region

  4. May 2017
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