I grew up in the shadow of the volcano of Etna in Sicily, crossing the entire Italian peninsula to land in the financial capital of Milan just in time to join the fledgling Italian News Service in 1989. A year later, I moved my few belongings to the Eternal City. I met my partner and raised two boys in the square mile that contains the Reuters bureau - where I am now bureau chief - my home, and the monumental gardens of Villa Borghese. I am not sure how many of the events that have unfolded in Rome over the past 35 years will make it into the history books. Certainly, the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI in 2013, the first pontiff to do so in six centuries, will be one. Perhaps the 2022 appointment of Italy's first female prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, will be another. But for t...
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