People From Rome

"In interviews I like to take not one but several steps backwards. I like TV that asks the questions and listens to the answers. Too often those asking questions are too complacent and don't listen to the interviewer."

"The instruments are not political, they are the Christian virtues, in the first place fraternal charity. This is the principle which I have always tried to follow in my work in Russia, the attempt to increase a mutual understanding and respect that are born from the common Christian vocation."

"About Cesara Buonamici She is a professional of the highest level. She is a journalist and you can immediately understand: she is someone who wants to know, to know, to arrive immediately; her and is in perfect position."

"Alfonso was a discovery! I knew who he was, but from a human and professional point of view he is a master of excellence. He really impressed me with how, with serenity, professionalism and devotion towards the public, he managed everything in an incredible way."

"Io conosco realmente il mio percorso, mi rendo conto che a volte il pregiudizio sia difficile da allontanare, anche perché è umano, ma penso che prima di giudicare una persona debba conoscere, e sono consapevole che non si può sempre piacere a tutti. Poi, sono apertissima alle critiche costruttive."

"Ho iniziato a cantare, ballare, suonare la chitarra e a studiare recitazione. I miei genitori mi hanno sempre incoraggiato. Mi hanno anche messo in guardia sulle difficoltà del settore, raccomandandosi: "Studia, studia, studia. Vai avanti e credici". Prima di entrare in studio dico una preghiera. Credo in Dio e nelle energie: nelle buone vibrazioni che mi trasmettono il mio staff e il pubblico a casa. Dopo la diretta mangio."

"I really know my path, I realize that sometimes prejudice is difficult to remove, also because it is human, but I think that before judging a person you have to know, and I am aware that you can't always please everyone. Then, I am very open to constructive criticism."

"I never used my last name, I arrived in the team little by little. As a young girl I went to my father's office, I was in contact with the authors, I could ask and understand how to write a project, how to create a format. I had this privilege of being able to see how a father's job is done, as happens to the son of a lawyer or dentist. I got my golden token after several years of sacrifice, study and work. I don't have a degree, but after graduating I wanted to immediately get involved and as a self-taught I studied what could be useful to me."

"About Valerio Staffelli Working with dad was fantastic, the best thing in the world is having him by your side. I don't know about the future, I'm still young. Dad, he always told me to "fly low and learn what you want to do"."

"In my private life, certainly, there is health, first and foremost, love, family and friends. These are the fantastic four for me. For my career, however, the voice because it's all based on communication. I communicate on the radio, from the stage that is my strong point. I would have loved to work with Anne Hathaway in Lo stagista inaspettato or The Devil Wears Prada. As a child I was so obsessed, I saw it so many times that I then played with my friends to "play" The Devil Wears Prada, to reinterpret the protagonists. Plus I'm also fond of fashion. I'm honestly happy that there is a generational change. I am a new recruit and therefore I am always available for new experiences."

"I started singing, dancing, playing the guitar and studying acting. My parents always encouraged me. They also warned me about the difficulties of the sector, recommending: "Study, study, study. Go ahead and believe it." Before entering the studio I say a prayer. I believe in God and in energies: in the good vibrations that my staff and the audience at home send to me. After the live broadcast I eat."

"Given the subject matter, I cannot be an objective observer and disinterested because I see everything that can benefit the Latin favorably. The Latin also adapts very well to the synthesis required by the new social network, even more than English."

"Simonetti made me love philology as a research method, educating me in rigor, the ability to investigate documents and pay attention to the texts."

"What binds me to my grandfather is certainly intransigent fidelity to the Holy See – naturally without indulging in the obsequiousness that can reach sickly forms of popolatry – and a conscience that must always remain on the alert."

"In order to uproot all spirit of opposition I believe it is fundamental to implement a broad educational endeavor, because certain prejudices of the Western world cannot be addressed in a few hours."

"The time has now come for choices between a messianism that keeps hope alive, which kindles the Jews by motivating them daily to efforts and sacrifices, such as the building of a culture which is adapted to a better society – not the best that utopian fantasy can imagine – and a messianism that is only a camoflauge for intransigent politics, which finds its very best allies in the fundamentalists of the Arab-Islamic world, who are its mirror image."

"If to these reasons we add archaeological considerations that demonstrate the entirely peripheral situation of Chorasmia in relation to the Iranian world of the first half of the 1st millennium BCE, we can exclude this northeastern region from the geographic horizon of Zoroastrian origins. Chorasmia retained this peripheral position throughout the entire 1st millennium BCE... No valid argument can make us think that it was ever decisively larger than present-day Khwarezm and that it extended to much more southern territories."

"We can therefore attribute to an essentially mythical geography certain common Indo-Iranian conceptions: the conception of Mount Hara in the Avesta or Mount Meru or Sumeru in India; that of the seven regions of the earth: the Iranian kesvar or the Indian dvipa; that of a central region: Xanirata or Jambudvipa respectively in Iran and India; that of the Tree of all seeds in the Vourukasa sea south of Mount Hara in Iran, and of the Jambu tree south of Mount Meru in India, etc."

"It is farther south than in Chorasmia that we must strive to reconstruct the historical environment where the Iranian prophet lived and acted. A set of data from different sources... leads... to shifting our focus toward the areas around the Hindu Kush and toward the lands south of these mountains...in short, between ancient Bactria and the ancient Drangiana and Arachosia."

"[Gnoli identifies the sixteenth land, Raηhā, as an ―] eastern mountainous area, Indian or Indo-Iranian, hit by intense cold in winter."

"Muza recalls the Sanskrit Mujavant, to be located in a region between the Hindu Kush and the Pamir."

"Mount Hara, which in Iranian cosmography is the counterpart of Mount Meru in Indian cosmography, is clearly identifiable in the Mihr Yast with Paropamisos, Para-uparisaina."

"Now, the obstacle that arises from the theory of the Medes and the Persians having emigrated from the North ... on the basis of a highly conjectural interpretation of the archaeological evidence, is now removed by the archaeologists themselves. A body of evidence... orients us in quite a different direction, namely towards that of a migratory movement, probably a slow, progressive one, from East to West, along the great Khorasan Road....."

"[This region is subject to] “a process of spiritualization of Avestan geography … in the famous celebration of the Hilmand in the Zamyad Yast…”, and “this pre-eminent position of Sistan in Iranian religious history and especially in the Zoroastrian tradition is a very archaic one that most likely marks the first stages of the new religion … the sacredness of the Hamun-i Hilmand goes back to pre-Zoroastrian times…” ..."

"[In the Avestan descriptions of Varana (in the Vendidad), Gnoli sees] “a country, where the ‘Airyas’ (Iranians) were not rulers and where there was probably a hegemony of Indo-Aryan or proto-Indoaryan peoples.”"

"[Airyana Vaējah... ]"the country is characterized, in the Vd.I context, by an advanced state of mythicization"."

"The geographical framework of Vd. I is entirely that of eastern Iran."

"This list... in my opinion, has the same meaning as the lists of the sixteen Great Territories, sodasa mahājanapada, subjected to the Aryan element according to Buddhist, Jain, and epic sources of 6th-century BCE India. The first fargard of the Vendidad – I do not know if this parallelism has ever been observed – is a Zoroastrian list of the sixteen Great Territories in which the Aryan element spread, albeit unevenly."

"The main obstacle to a reconstruction that closely links the western Aryas to the Avestan Airyas is, in my opinion, the one arising from the theories that the Medes and the Persians emigrated from the North rather than from the East, that is to say, for instance, from south-east Russia (some scholars connect them with the so-called Andronovo culture) to the region lying North or North-West of the Caspian and across the Caucasus to the Urmia Lake region and, lastly, in an easterly and southeasterly direction towards the Zagros mountains."

"A much more convincing theory than that of the western Iranians having emigrated from North to South across the Caucasus is that of a slow, progressive East-West emigration, a gradual penetration as it were, over the centuries, from the end of the 2nd millennium to the first half of the 1st millennium B.C. ..."

"We do not know for certain which river of the traditional cosmology it corresponded to, although the one that naturally comes to mind is the river Arodvi Brzi. Likewise we are unsure of its identification with this or that river of actual geography, although in this case, too, it does not seem that we have a great many rivers to choose from. For a number of reasons that we cannot go into here, as it would lead us too far astray the only rivers we can seriously take into consideration are those such as the Oxus and the Helmand... I have already collected on several occasions evidence and arguments in favour of the latter river in particular..."

"“we may consider that the northernmost regions where Zoroaster carried out his work were Bactria and Areia”. ..."

"[the airyo-Sayana refers to] “the vast region that stretches southward from the Hindukus,” ... “from the southern slopes of the great mountain chains towards the valleys of the rivers that flow south, like the Hilmand…” “there is a substantial uniformity in the geographical horizon between Yt.XIX and Yt.X ... and the same can be said for Vd.I … these Avestan texts which contain in different forms, and for different purposes, items of information that are useful for historical geography give a fairly uniform picture: eastern Iran, with a certain prevalence of the countries reaching upto the southern slopes of the Hindukus.” ..."

"This would probably be the first known case of transposition from east to west of a sacred place in the Zoroastrian tradition..."

"[Likewise, in later Greek tradition, Ariane] “is the Greek name which doubtless reflects an older Iranian tradition that designated with an equivalent form the regions of eastern Iran lying mostly south, and not north, of the Hindukus. It is clear how important this information is in our research as a whole.” ..."

"[the Avesta reflects] “an historical situation in which Iranian elements exist side by side with … Aryan or Proto-Indoaryan (elements)”. ..."

"All this gives Sistan a central role regarding the origins of Zoroastrianism, as it is almost presented to us as the Zoroastrian land par excellence."

"Such religious thought was formed... in the central and southern zones of the eastern Iranian world..."

"The Hilmand region and the Hamun-i Hilmand are beyond all doubt the most minutely described countries in Avestan geography. ..."

"This suggests to us a conclusion which, in my view, is historically important: the northern steppes, the Aral region, the lands beyond the Syr Darya and probably also those beyond the Amu Darya, remain outside the reconstructed horizon... This means that Zoroastrianism... was born in an area of the Iranian or Iranianized world where, for centuries, cultural, social, and economic processes developed..."

"The only Ariana we know is Strabo's Ariana, whose Geography describes its limits precisely: to the east the Indus, to the south the Arabian Sea, and to the west an irregular line..."

"This is one of the regions in our geographical horizon that probably witnessed the origins of Zoroastrianism: Sistan, and more precisely, the basin of the Hamun-i Helmand."

"The discoveries made by Soviet archaeologists in Margiana and Bactria uncovered settlements and constructions of such complexity that they leave us little doubt about the special importance of these regions in the cultural geography of Central Asia and eastern Iran until the threshold of the 1st millennium BCE... one can conjecture, in the pre-Achaemenid period, the existence of an extensive geopolitical entity: research conducted on the ground would suggest attributing it either to Bactria alone or to a larger geopolitical entity that also included Margiana and Sogdiana, a parallel technique, even prior to the rise of the Achaemenids, but in which neither the Persians nor the Medes seem to have been much involved."

"The case of Vakereta was resolved by S. Lévi, who linked it to the name of the yakṣa of Gandhāra, Vaikr̥tika, in the list of the Mahāmāyūrī. This identification is solid and widely accepted, as evidenced by the consensus it has gathered."

"Zoroastrianism was born on a cultural and religious ground that is several centuries, even millennia old..."

"Zoroaster probably lived at the beginning of the 1st millennium BCE, within the vast region known to the Greeks... The Central Asian steppes or Chorasmia are again excluded from this geographical horizon."

"In the second half of the 2nd millennium BCE, groups of states were present on the western and southern margins of this territory, while Chorasmia was inhabited by populations living mainly by subsistence economy."

"On the contrary, it was certainly not before the Achaemenid period that areas with greater agricultural potential like Sogdiana and Chorasmia were widely populated and exploited. In light of archaeological research results, this delay is attributed less to their intrinsic geographical characteristics than to the distance separating these areas from those that, in the 3rd millennium BCE, saw the first state formations in eastern Iran. This marginality will disappear when they become demographically saturated and fully exploitable."

"Given its very Oriental horizon, this list must be pre-Achaemenid; on the other hand, the remarkable extendedness of the territories concerned recommends situating them in a period much later than the Zoroastrian origins. (…) one or several centuries later than Zarathuštra’s preaching."

"The only possible identification of Airyana Vaejah must point to the great Hindukus mountain range."