By Anthony Faiola / Stefano Pitrelli contributed to this report
ROME — They have clothed the world’s wealthy fashionistas and bejeweled Hollywood stars. Now, Italy’s kings of fashion are poised to give this nation’s crumbling monuments a makeover to restore them to their former glory, something the cash-strapped Italian government cannot do.
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SAN DIEGO — Visto dall’Italia il fenomeno del Comic-Con e del suo popolo in costume, meglio noti come cosplayer, può apparire alieno, e pure un po’ estraniante. Ma osservato mentre invade ogni strada e ogni piazza di quella che una volta l’anno, da quasi mezzo secolo, è la capitale mondiale del fumetto e della cultura pop tutta, sotto il sole californiano salta agli occhi la sua affinità con quello che invece è un aspetto particolarmente familiare, e tradizionale, della cultura italiana: il carnevale lungo le calli di Venezia, e le maschere della commedia dell’arte.
By Anthony Faiola / Stefano Pitrelli contributed to this report
FLORENCE, Italy — The power of the Catholic Church in Italy has forced thousands of gays and lesbians to live in the shadows, and the opposition of bishops made this the only nation in Western Europe to withhold legal rights from same-sex couples. But gay Catholics here now speak of a new ray of light from what they call “l’effetto Francesco.”
Alessandro Penso / OnOff Picture for The Washington Post – Giulia Masieri, 32, is given Communion during the Mass held by Don Andrea Bigalli in the Church of Sant’Andrea in Florence, Italy. The parish welcomes gay Catholics.
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