tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post1790657564063610911..comments2024-03-29T09:39:50.604+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Avignon and DesenzanoFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-89367572242307275632016-08-03T04:31:19.884+01:002016-08-03T04:31:19.884+01:00My less interesting comment is that I so wish I ha...My less interesting comment is that I so wish I had been there! Italy was a great treat for me last year and I had planned to do it again but a car accident and concussion have left me a bit 'under the weather'. Perhaps next year, if travel does not become too frightful. Thank you for the memory of that enchanting place!<br />Mary K JMary Kayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15177771196355631149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-52373937856669815022016-08-01T10:15:33.543+01:002016-08-01T10:15:33.543+01:00Thank you! What an amazingly interesting comment!!...Thank you! What an amazingly interesting comment!!!Fr John Hunwickehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-81433741992377966402016-07-31T23:24:32.120+01:002016-07-31T23:24:32.120+01:00Italian war memorials, Father, are a matter of som...Italian war memorials, Father, are a matter of some controversy. There is, in fact, a book about them in English: John Foot: Italy's Divided Memory (Palgrave). With regard to the First World War, the nature of war memorials was hotly and sometimes violently contested between socialists and communists (who loathed memorials of the "our glorious dead" type, and fascists.<br /><br />Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16365402242052425654noreply@blogger.com