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We should mention at the top, Seb is joining us from Milan.

What time is it there, Seb? Our international fan base is growing.

It's pretty early, but it's okay.

I was lucky enough to be in your city a couple of years ago, mate.

My wife and I did a great trip around Italy.

We started in Milan.

Beautiful.

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We should mention at the top, Seb is joining us from Milan.

What time is it there, Seb? Our international fan base is growing.

It's pretty early, but it's okay.

I was lucky enough to be in your city a couple of years ago, mate.

My wife and I did a great trip around Italy.

We started in Milan.

Beautiful.

So, and let's get started.

So hello everyone, my name is, as David says, Giacomo, and I'm from Brescia, that is a city near Milan, in the northern part of Italy.

So, as David says, I'm really passionate about aviation, and this passion started when I was quite young, I was about four, and when I took my first flight.

And obviously when you are this young, the first thing you want to know is how the aircraft works, how the travel will be, it's a new thing.

You'll never guess what we're here to talk about today.

Another loss to Milan.

I'm not feeling particularly clever today.

So Mikko, hello.

When was the last time we voluntarily started a game in a formation other than a 3-5-2? So to have a Fonseca moment and just completely rip up everything we know in with the old, in with the new, out with the old was pretty stunning.

And the word I used pregame to describe it was a little desperate.

It just felt like, why now? And it translated on the field within the first 10 minutes of this match where this team wasn't ready to play and it just felt like Kivu suffered from smartest man in the room syndrome yesterday because that was a performance so poor it's going to go down in derby history that was the worst we've played in this match in any of the eight previous instances of failing to beat Milan this team was not ready to play they didn't believe in this formation which was clear to me after reading Borrello's postgame comments they didn't understand their roles and And within 10 minutes of this game, we had just a massive generational fumble on our hands because this team was not ready.

And we did not play football for the first 20, 25 minutes of this game.

The only other entrance to Italy commonly used is that along the Riviera, from Nice to Genoa, a delightful ride.

In hot weather a glimpse of Italy can be secured without risk of discomfort by going over the Simplon to Lake Maggiore, thence to Milan, back to Lake Como, across to Lugano, and over the St. Gothard to Lucerne.

Tourists who take in only northern Italy wisely spend their energies on Venice, Florence, Genoa, and Milan, with a few hours at Pisa, and possibly a stop at Verona and Padua.

There is little to see at Turin.

At least a side excursion of a day or two from Milan should be made through the chief Italian lakes, and they are worth a week from those who have leisure.

The Lago di Garda, close by the route from the Tyrol to Venice, is not often visited by Americans, but the slight digression from the route it requires will never be regretted.

On the way from Florence to Rome, stops should certainly be made at Orvieto and Siena, possibly at Perugia.

It would be almost safe to make the general assertion that Europe excels us now only in products requiring an artistic environment, peculiar properties of soil or climate, or the labor of workpeople so poor that they cannot emigrate.

THE ITALIAN WARS.

I. campaign of charles the eighth fourteen ninety three from grasping at province after province on their own border however the french kings were now to turn to wider dreams of conquest abroad together with the county of provence louis the eleventh had bought from king ren all the claims of the house of anjou among these was included a claim to the kingdom of naples Louis' son, Charles VIII, a vain and shallow lad, was tempted by the possession of large treasures and a fine army to listen to the persuasions of an Italian intriguer, Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, and put forward these pretensions, thus beginning a war which lasted nearly as long as the Hundred Years' War with England.

But it was a war of aggression instead of a war of self-defence.

Charles crossed the Alps in 1493, marched the whole length of Italy without opposition, and was crowned at Naples, while its royal family, an illegitimate offshoot from the kings of Aragon, fled into Sicily and called on Spain for help.

and thus prevented Brittany from again parting from the crown.

Louis not only succeeded to the

Angevin right to Naples, but through his grandmother he viewed himself as heir of Milan.

She was

The first cry against the French was raised by the Pope Alexander VI, a Spanish Borgia.

By the time Charles VIII of France was crowned King of Naples, May 1495, all Italy was ablaze against the intruders, and Ferdinand formed the Holy League of Rome, Spain, Austria, Venice, and Milan to crush his enemies.

Then, as usual, he found it desirable to secure the benevolence of Henry VII of England.

Again, Henry was delighted, for Perkin Warbeck had been received by Maximilian and his Flemish kinsmen as the rightful King of England, and the Yorkist nobles still found aid and sympathy in the dominions of Burgundy.

Wolsey's position had become a most delicate and dangerous one.

As soon as the Emperor learned of Anne's rise, he had written to Mendoza, 30th September 1527, saying that the Cardinal must be bought at any price.

All his arrears of pension, 45,000 ducats, were to be paid, 6,000 ducats a year more from a Spanish bishopric were to be granted, and a Milanese marquessate was to be conferred upon him with a revenue of 15,000 ducats a year, if he would only serve the Emperor's interests.

But he dared not do it quickly or openly, dearly as he loved money, for Anne was watchful and Henry suspicious of him.

Just to give you an example, you want to become a professional in the world of cinema, then you have to go to a cinema academy.

Rome, Milan.

If you want to go into dubbing, which is a real industry in Italy because we get so many foreign films, well, that one you've got to go to a film and theatre academy.

Again, if you want to become a professional actor in the theatre or a director, then there are specific...

What if I were to tell you that what's happening in Europe right now shouldn't surprise you? Nothing there is a surprise.

What you see in Paris and what you see in Milan, other places across Eastern and Western Europe, none of it should surprise you right now.

What if I said that the chaos in Paris in London was inevitable.

And that multiple political scholars and noted theologians over the years have warned of this social collapse that being imminent and that it was gonna happen.