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You who live secure
In your warm houses
Who return at evening to find
Hot food and friendly faces:
Consider whether this is a man,
Who labours in the mud
Who knows no peace
Who fights for a crust…
Contributor:
Primo Levi
Places:
Turin, Italy
Date:
1946
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1750
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Honored colleagues!
One sole consideration persuades me to accept the very high office to which your vote has appointed me, when dwindling forces barely enable the modest duties of teachers and of…
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Ernesto Nathan
Places:
Rome, Kingdom of Italy
(Rome, Italy)
Date:
1906
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This intricately decorated ketubah (marriage contract) marks the marriage of Gabriel ben Hezekiah Amron to Simḥa bat Shabbetai mi-Segni. It is richly decorated with biblical miniatures, including one…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Rome, Papal States
(Rome, Italy)
Date:
1734
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Artist Unknown
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ca. 1750
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Mother, there’s a tedium today,
some sadness that’s got into everything,
even an ambitious man’s dreams
show signs of a slow despair.
Mother, try loving
your self-despising son
on a day he’s alone
an…
Contributor:
Umberto (Poli) Saba
Places:
Trieste, Kingdom of Italy
(Trieste, Italy)
Date:
1900–1907
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Dramatic poem by Angiolo Orvieto
Music by Giacomo Orefice
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Angiolo Orvieto
Places:
Florence, Kingdom of Italy
(Florence, Italy)
Date:
1905
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Vittorio Matteo Corcos
Places:
Florence, Kingdom of Italy
(Florence, Italy)
Date:
1896
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Nicolas de Nicolay
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1585