"It is not possible to fully understand modern world culture without appreciating its connection and its continuity with the heritage of classical culture."
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Claudio Gentili, βTime outβ for Classical Studies? The Future of Italian Liceo Classico in the 4.0 world, in Estudios Sobre Educacion, 33:127-143, October 2017.
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Tullio De Mauro
Tullio De Mauro (31 March 1932 β 5 January 2017) was an Italian linguist, a professor emeritus of general linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and an Italian politician.
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