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The blue captain Filippo Volandri has called up Lorenzo Musetti, Flavio Cobolli, and Luciano Darderi for the Davis Cup, excluding Matteo Berrettini, with the aim of winning the fourth consecutive title for the Italian National Team. #CoppaDavis #TennisItalia #Volandri (translated)

Matteo Di Gangi observed that a coach had achieved five wins and three draws in the first eight Serie A matches, but was treated as if he were in the relegation zone. Regarding Milan, he wrote that the Rossoneri had won an important match despite being without half of the team and that injuries happened to all teams engaged every three days. He added that Milan still had several aspects to improve and should extend the squad in January, but urged to maintain balance in judgments. #SerieA #Milan #calcio (translated)

THE "BATTLE OF CERIGNOLA (1503)" ON "POPULAR ARCHAEOLOGY USA" (by LUCIANO MAGALDI SARDELLA) SOURCE 1: https://popular-archaeology.com/author/sardella/ SOURCE 2: https://popular-archaeology.com/article/the-2026-battlefield-archaeology-of-the-battle-of-cerignola-1503/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- CERIGNOLA (FG) — On April 28, 1503, at sunset, a shallow trench cut between the vineyards outside Cerignola rendered heavy cavalry obsolete. For five centuries, its exact location has only been conjectured, its archaeology ignored, its most important sources never translated into English. We are on the Tavoliere of Puglia, a corridor of battles for two thousand years: from Cannae in 216 BC to the falcon hunt of Frederick II from Torre Alemanna. Cerignola, at that time, was not a city but a rural village of 350 families at 120 meters above sea level, custodian of the Mena della Dogana delle Pecore, the great pastoral system of transhumance that financed the Kingdom of Naples. Its possession was fiercely contested. Facing each other were two worlds. Louis d’Armagnac, Duke of Nemours, Viceroy of Naples for Louis XII, in his thirties, splendidly armored, confident of victory. On the other side was Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, the Gran Capitán, who on April 27-28 marched from Barletta with about 9,000 exhausted men and decided to settle on a low ridge. He deepened what was already there: not an invention, but an agricultural ditch. The French gendarmes, the last heirs of the medieval knight, lowered their lances and never reached the line. From behind a parapet reinforced with vine stakes, over 1,000 Spanish arquebusiers opened fire. Nemours fell, almost certainly the first European army commander to die from a portable firearm. With him, the charge of cavalry as a dominant tactic died. And here is the scandal denounced by the article: no cartographer of the 17th-18th centuries ever mapped the battlefield. No monument commemorates it. It is not protected as a cultural landscape under the Code of Cultural Heritage. Every deep plowing of the Tavoliere, standard practice since the Bourbon reforms, destroys an archaeology never recorded. Yet the perimeter can be reconstructed. By cross-referencing the 16th-century descriptions of "vine-covered slopes fifteen miles north of the Ofanto" with the Via Traiana, the engagement area is a rectangle of 3-4 square kilometers northeast of the current settlement. With the 1m LiDAR DTM from ISPRA, it could reveal anomalous linear depressions, and the lower filling of a ditch 2-3 meters deep, under the plowed layer, is still readable with magnetometry and ground radar. Why did we arrive late? Not for lack of sources, but for lack of translation. The Municipality of Cerignola and the Torre Alemanna Research and Study Center of Prof. Matteo Stuppiello, who in 1978 obtained the first monumental protection for Torre Alemanna, have digitized a corpus that has never entered Anglophone historiography. Here are the 3 pillars: 1. The letter that still smells of gunpowder. The “Letter from Consalvo de Córdoba to the Spanish royals dated April 29, 1503,” edited by Stuppiello in 2003 and updated to 2025 on comune.cerignola.fg.it/biblioteche-digitali. A handwritten page written in Cerignola the day after the battle, “rich in flashes, twilight lights, and gunfire.” Not a polished chronicle like that of Giovio, but a field dispatch: the fatigue of the night march, the decision to entrench upon arrival, the recovery and honorable burial of Nemours, the intact capture of the French artillery. 2. The graffiti, a monument inside the monument. In the 14th-century church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, known as the Incoronatella, on the Via Trinitapoli Vecchia, where tradition holds that the body of Nemours was brought. On the triumphal arch, a 1503 graffiti gives, in almost notarized form, the date, sixth indiction, Friday at the hour XXIII-XXIIII. It was indeed Friday, as confirmed by the perpetual calendar of Cappelli. Decoded in 1995 by Prof. Francesco Magistrale, Latin paleographer at the University of Bari, in *The Battle of Cerignola (1993)* and in the municipal monograph *S.M. delle Grazie (1999)*. Today it is fading due to humidity and neglect. 3. The land registry that explains the ditch. The Survey of 1672 preserved at the State Archive of Naples, Pignatelli Aragona Cortes fund, Scanzia 63, fasc.1: “At the time of the battle, thick vineyards covered the hill reaching to the plain, and were distinctly separated from the rest of the countryside by a not very deep ditch.” Córdoba did not improvise; he adapted. This is confirmed by the catasti of the Giustiniani: 277 households in 1532, 699 in 1595. The landscape of 1503 was intensely horticultural, not the deeply plowed monoculture of today. In addition to these, there is the first monograph by Vincenzo Buonassisi, *The Battle of Cerignola* (1908, died in Via Fanfulla 10 on June 27, 1928), and the first modern military analysis by Piero Pieri, “Consalvo de Córdoba and the Battle of Cerignola,” Archivio Storico Pugliese 1952, which 30 years before the Anglophone rediscovery of the “pike-and-shot” defined Cerignola as an engineered killing ground. While Cerignola forgot, others remembered. The “Regimiento de Infantería Cerinola n.42”, later “Fuerteventura n.56”, carried the name of Cerignola until the 20th century. The coat of arms, described in *Heraldica e Historiales del Ejercito, Tomo V” (Madrid, 1981): silver field, dying white swan entangled in a hedge, golden wall crown, with the scroll “Cerignola.” Dossier officially transmitted on April 30, 1986, prot. 4565/509, from the Servicio Histórico Militar of Madrid to the Torre Alemanna Center thanks to Col. Alessio Antonutti and Gen. José Cifuentes. And in Amsterdam, at the Rijksmuseum, the anonymous bronze commemorative medal: Hercules with lion skin and club and Janus with the keys next to an eagle-armed coat of arms, legend “Consalvus Agidarius… Janum clausit,” on the reverse a battle scene “Consalvi Agidari Victoria de Gallis ad Cannas,” an artist's mistake that confuses Cerignola with Cannae. It belonged to Mrs. J.M. van Gelder-Nijhoff, donated in 1885. The author's conclusion is clear: Gonzalo's ditch is the most consequential earthwork in European military history. It inaugurates the infantry armed with firearm and conditions the Mediterranean for 160 years. It may still be there, filled, plowed, invisible to the naked eye but accessible to a magnetometer. It is not a matter of medieval archaeology but of the will to protect. (translated)

Antonio Vitiello reported that Mike Maignan explained on social media that his gesture was not intentional: like other goalkeepers, he had tried to make some space in his area. Maignan added that the episode had given a bad image, especially to young viewers, and that the club, the staff, and his teammates knew his character, his intentions, and his attitude as captain. He also wrote that giving up was not part of his way of being and that he was used to the interpretations of certain people and certain media. #Maignan #Calcio #Sport (translated)

Daniele Mari reported that Capello had asked Barella why he hadn't called his teammates out for the lack of intensity, pressing, and will until the 60th minute, given that he was the captain. In the studio, someone had clarified that Barella had not been substituted. Barella said that the long-awaited victory in the Champions League had weighed heavily and that the team needed to improve its approach and resolve what he called a problem. #Calcio #ChampionsLeague #Sport (translated)

Giovanni Di Lorenzo responds harshly to former Napoli captain Giuseppe Bruscolotti, who criticized the team and its captain, stating that at 75 years old, he would not go on the offensive against the blue locker room without knowing the situation from within. #Napoli #DiLorenzo #Calcio (translated)

Nicolò Schira reported that Giovanni Di Lorenzo replied to Bruscolotti stating that, at 75 years as a former captain, he would not harshly attack the Napoli dressing room without knowing the situation from the outside and fostering unnecessary criticism. He added that he remembered Bruscolotti differently from their meeting at the Centenary celebration. #Napoli #Calcio #SerieA (translated)

Daniele Mari reported that Barella stressed the contribution of all the players who came onto the field and stated that Inter's goal was to preserve the scudetto. He added that the choices were up to the coach and that Lauti was the team captain; he also said he was ready to give his contribution even without wearing the armband. Barella acknowledged that Inter needed to improve in the Champions League and work on their approach to matches, noting that even on that day the team struggled for 30 minutes. #Inter #SerieA #Calcio (translated)

Wazza praised the captain's goal, which came at the end of a move started by Pepo, and said he appreciated everyone's performance. However, he expressed doubts about the corner kicks taken towards the outside and about Calha's position as the last man, urging the team to keep pushing. #Calcio #Goal #Squadra (translated)

The former captain of the Ris, Alberto Marino, involved in the investigation into the murder of Chiara Poggi, has requested to speak in court regarding the alleged tests missed on Alberto Stasi's bicycles, whose conviction is now under review by the Pavia prosecutor's office. #Garlasco #AlbertoMarino #Giustizia (translated)

Alberto Marino, former captain of the RIS, has expressed the desire to testify in court regarding the deleted evidence in the Garlasco case, particularly about the negative results of the DNA tests and the absence of crucial data in the records of the time. #Garlasco #AlbertoStasi #RIS (translated)

Elisabetta Aldrovandi wrote that a document recovered from the Prosecutor's Office in Pavia confirmed the absence of genetic material on the spoon used by Chiara Poggi on the morning of the crime. She contrasted that document with the documentation provided to PM Muscio, which she claimed contained DNA that was manually reconstructed because it was unclear, but attributed without doubt to the victim. Aldrovandi also argued that the documentation reported a large quantity of DNA on the pedal of Alberto Stasi's bicycle, initially identified with certainty as blood and later indicated as such with a high probability. She recalled that a handwritten note from then Captain Marino instead reported the absence of blood and that the machine used for electrophoretic runs had produced two negative results for that DNA. The author stated that the data clarified what might have happened in the laboratory in September 2007. She deemed it unacceptable and unforgivable, in addition to the errors, any potential concealment of them, arguing that this could have contributed to biasing the investigation against Stasi, who was sentenced to 16 years in prison, of which he would serve nearly 11, with severe consequences for his life and reputation. #garlasco #giustizia #DNA #garlasco (translated)

Rita Cavallaro argued in Il Giornale that there were deceptions in the investigation into Garlasco to identify a pre-selected culprit. She wrote that Captain Marino of the RIS asked the Milan traffic police to cancel the fines received during his trips to court to meet with prosecutor Barbaini. https://t.co/ma4uQNM82y #GIustizia #Corruzione #Inchiesta (translated)

Francesco wrote, referencing an article by Rita Cavallaro, that Captain Marino had traveled to Milan eight times in November 2011 — on the 7th, 10th, 14th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 29th, and 30th — to meet with prosecutor Laura Barbaini. According to reports, he had reached the Tribunal in his own vehicle after being summoned by Barbaini. Francesco indicated that the trips would have emerged from letters sent by Marino to the municipal police of Milan to request the cancellation of any fines received during the journey. The letters, he wrote, were among the documents in the “wardrobe of shame,” obtained at the Parma laboratory by the Prosecutor's Office of Pavia. He added that there were no notes or minutes regarding the reasons for the meetings or what Marino and Barbaini had discussed. In reconstructing the context, Francesco recalled that the first appeal trial for the Garlasco crime had started in Milan on November 8, 2011, and that Barbaini represented the prosecution as Deputy Attorney General. On November 22, during the closing arguments, she had requested 30 years in prison for Alberto Stasi, also contesting the aggravating circumstance of cruelty. Stasi had been acquitted on appeal in December 2011; subsequently, Francesco wrote, the Supreme Court had annulled the sentence and ordered a new trial in Milan in 2014, in which Barbaini maintained the same role and secured the conviction. #Garlasco #Giustizia #Sistema (translated)

Chinardi reported that the Milan Court had declared his marriage dissolved and rejected both Nara's request for spousal support — which, he indicated, amounted to 250,000 euros per month — and her request for a compensatory pension. According to his description of the ruling, the court considered that she had sufficient income and assets and did not find evidence that she had sacrificed her career during the marriage. He also noted that her notoriety had arisen from her relationship with Mauro Icardi, then player and captain of Inter, and that her professional activity had expanded. Chinardi added that Nara had been ordered to reimburse him two-thirds of the legal costs. He said that he had initiated the process in November 2024 and that another proceeding was still ongoing in Milan, in which he was seeking to annul the transfer of properties from his estate and recover them. According to Chinardi, the court clarified that the rejection of the pension was based on the evaluation of all the requirements and not solely on the assets she had already received. He also stated that he welcomed the ruling and the start of a new phase. #MauroIcardi #Divorcio #Justicia #NuevosComienzos (translated)

Tg1 reported that the RIS had collected the blood of Chiara Poggi on September 4, 2007, for DNA comparison. Former captain Marino, questioned by the prosecutors, said he did not remember the acquisition. Tg1 compared the records from 2007 with the statements made to the magistrates in 2026. https://t.co/6dwNCZcyqe #Giustizia #DNA #Cronaca (translated)

Tg1 referred to a 2007 report in which, according to the broadcaster, the former captain of the RIS, Marino, reported a positive result from the Combur test, used for the generic search for blood on Stasi's bicycle pedals. However, he did not indicate the OBTI, the specific test for human blood, which had yielded a negative result. https://t.co/nGDwlQuwCR #BreakingNews #Giustizia #Cronaca (translated)