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The Italian government's threatened abolition of 36 Provinces (roughly the equivalent of counties) and of all local authorities of less than 1000 inhabitants, as part of the recent emergency expenditure-cutting budget, has predictably caused an uproar. Filettino, a village in the mountains east of Rome, has actually declared independence as the "Principality of Filettino" and is already printing its own money. It also threatens to slap a tax on the water from its reservoir, which feeds most of the city of Rome.
Re: SPEAKING ONLY OF THE LETTER 'M'
Date: 2011-08-29 07:07 am (UTC)In general, you mess with an Italian town or village at your peril. It's not just the State: the country is dotted with villages who have quarrelled with the local Bishop and gone over to one or another Orthodox or Eastern church.
I doubt that any Muscongus selectman was ever addressed as 'Your Terrificness'.
Date: 2011-08-29 09:06 am (UTC)