One Hundred Years, Cent'Anni

 

In a very symbolic feat, the long-lived president Mattarella - who may quite soon become the longest-governing head of state for a similar span as well - inaugurated Giorgia Meloni, head of the Fratelli d'Italia faction, as head of the Italian government. This was quite swiftly proclaimed if not the first fascist, then certainly the first extreme right, or most far-right of all governments since the great war, or even since Mussolini in 1943. This near-eighty year span,