Only in hindsight does earthquake prediction work with real accuracy. Seismologists can assess long-term risks and likely scenarios, but they’d be the last ones to say they can foretell the time, date ...

Italian journalist Vittorio Messori responded this week to an article in the Communist daily Il Manifesto that portrays as truthful the black legend about the Inquisition. In a column translated from ...

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A Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony was held in the Steri Palace Prison in Palermo in Italy, which served as a headquarters of the Spanish Inquisition. (JTA) — A Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony was ...

THE CRIME OF GALILEO (338 pp.)—Georgia de Santillana—University of Chicago ($5.75). In the gallery of what might be called martyrs of thought, the image of Galileo recanting before the Italian ...

Italian racial legislation has stimulated the greatest mass conversion of Jews since the Spanish Inquisition, it was disclosed here today. Official statistics revealed that 4,500 Jews, representing ...

In June 1982 the trial begins against the Italian workers' autonomy movement — a show-trial without precedent in post-War Europe. Here the defendants, writing from prison, present their case, in the ...