>>“Rome, over its nearly 2,800 years of history, has been able to welcome and integrate different populations and people from all over the world, belonging to the most varied social and economic categories,” the pope told Mayor Virginia Raggi in his prepared address, “without canceling their legitimate differences, without humiliating or crushing their respective peculiar characteristics and identity.”
Yes, a tradition begun by Brennus, and continued by the Visigoths under Alaric, and so on. Rome has a 2,800 year history being plundered by foreign barbarians; you’d think they might have learned by now..
Rome has a 2,800 year history being plundered by foreign barbarians; you’d think they might have learned by now..
I was reading your post with interest till you posted this gross exaggeration