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The cursed Basano vase

Did you know that one of the most haunted objects in the world is Italian? It is the Basano vase,

Doretta Graneris and Guido Badini. Names that today say little or nothing. Characters who have fallen into the oblivion, who

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Those born and raised in Rome know the Primavalle district well. “Borgata”, using a popular, immediate, still widespread term. A

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Early 70s, Milan, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart). These three elements – temporal and

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It is believed that, from the top of the scientific knowledge patiently acquired in centuries of human history, superstition –

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In short Isabella de’ Medici (1542-1576), daughter of Cosimo I, died on 16 July 1576 at the Medici villa of

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In short Marco Mariolini, an antiques dealer from Brescia, called himself an “anorexophile”: he was attracted only to extremely thin

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In short Poveglia is an island in the southern Venetian Lagoon, inhabited since the early Middle Ages and devastated during

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In short Pippa Bacca, pseudonym of Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, was an artist from Milan and the niece of Piero

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In short Giorgio William Vizzardelli (1922-1973), the “monster of Sarzana”, killed five people between 1937 and 1938, starting at 14

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In short According to a Piedmontese legend, in 1684 a demon summoned by some witches possessed the monks of the

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In short Pupa is a 1920s felt doll, made in Trieste for a little girl who kept her all her

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