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Kimi Antonelli has won the Formula 1 World Championship, becoming the first Italian driver to do so in 73 years, but Ferrari continues to struggle, with tensions between its drivers, Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc, compromising the team's results. #Ferrari #Formula1 #Antonelli (translated)

The author argued that food was a right and that wasting it was unacceptable while many families struggled to secure a meal. He also reported having participated that day in an event in Mercato San Severino promoted by the Food Bank of Campania. https://t.co/JtQqi5lwBG #Cibo #Solidarietà #DirittiUmani #IT (translated)

The president of the Council, Giorgia Meloni, criticizes the decision of the judge in Milan not to validate the arrest of Youssef Siher, accused of managing a Telegram page that incited violent protests, stating that the State struggles to defend decent people in the face of certain choices made by the judiciary. #CasoSiher #Meloni #Magistratura (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)

Marco M.M. dedicated his post mainly to the very young, asserting that today more importance is placed on the image one projects than on who one actually is. He wrote that happiness seems to require visible proofs, such as photographs, travels, and milestones to show off, and that this mentality has fueled competition even in conversations and personal relationships. According to Marco M.M., the desire to appear better can make it more difficult to listen, change one’s mind, apologize, and acknowledge others' merits. He observed that ambition and the desire for self-improvement are not a problem, but they become one when there is a need for others to fall behind or for constant validation of one’s worth. He urged people to ask themselves whether the goals they pursue are truly desired or are simply a way to avoid feeling inferior, and he indicated that listening, humility, and respect for others are more important qualities than exhibited success. #autenticità #crescita #relazioni (translated)

Fabrizio Biasin described a tough match for Inter, which had struggled, made mistakes, and was left with ten men. He wrote that the team had scored with a beautiful play at the most complicated moment and deemed the three points precious, encouraging Inter to continue. https://t.co/xrgLSePXOE #Inter #Calcio #SerieA (translated)

Elly Schlein criticized Giorgia Meloni's government during a speech in the Chamber, asking for explanations on how it intends to tackle rising prices and arguing that violent methods should not be used to silence the peaceful protests of those struggling to make ends meet. #Meloni #Schlein #Carburanti (translated)

Mario Draghi said in an interview with Bloomberg that young people were protesting because they perceived social dynamics as stagnant, struggled to find jobs, and felt unprepared in the face of rapid technological transformation. The former prime minister and president of the ECB added that, in their view, nobody was listening to them. #ANSA https://t.co/xfERmLC2x6 #giovani #lavoro #società (translated)

Ultimora.net reported that Mario Draghi explained the riots in three countries with specific reasons for each case, all linked by the highly important elections scheduled for the following year. According to Draghi, the deeper cause was the blockage of expectations: young people felt ignored, perceived social dynamics as stagnant, struggled to find jobs, and felt unprepared for the rapid technological transformation of society. #giovani #rivolte #società (translated)

Two weeks before the midterm elections, Donald Trump is losing support in the polls, causing Republicans to invest millions in states previously considered safe, but their campaign is struggling to turn the political situation in favor of the GOP. #Elezioni2026 #Trump #Democratici (translated)