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The author recalled that it had been ten years since the death of Leonard Cohen and attributed to him a reflection on the assassination of Federico García Lorca by the fascists. According to the author, Cohen questioned why Spain had not excavated all of Granada to recover the poet's body nor imposed a historical punishment on his murderers. https://t.co/g0MvfFoLCa #LeonardCohen #FedericoGarcíaLorca #MemoriaHistórica #ES (translated)

Piedmont is facing a serious health alarm, with an expected increase in spending of nearly 300 million by 2027, according to regional councilor Federico Riboldi, who argues that government resources are not sufficient to cover the rising costs related to inflation and increasing demands for healthcare. #Sanità #Piemonte #SpesaPubblica (translated)

The author of the post had apologized for reporting late on Carlo Lucarelli's investigation, aired on Blu Notte, about the disappearance of Professor Federico Caffè. He had invited people to watch it on RaiPlay and described it as a television work of great value for public interest. https://t.co/9tpb1fg5J1 #inchiesta #FedericoCaffè #televisione #IT (translated)

The Junta of Castilla and León has proposed January 9 as the new date for the performance of the play about Federico García Lorca, originally scheduled for October 24 in Valladolid, which was suspended due to the need to carry out renovation works in the venue. #Lorca #Teatro #Censura (translated)

Federico Dimarco, the left-back of Inter, is seen as a supporter in football shoes and plays a central role in the complex relationship between the club and the ultras, while he prepares for his meeting with Anis Hadj Moussa in the Champions League. #InterMilan #FedericoDimarco #SerieA (translated)

Argentinian tennis player Federico Carabelli left the court at a score of 5:5 in the first set of the match, protesting against poor playing conditions, which led to his disqualification and the advancement of Brazilian Joao Lucas Reis da Silva to the semifinals of the tournament in Guayaquil. #tenis #Carabelli #Guayaquil (translated)

Regional Councillor Federico Riboldi announces the hiring of 2,595 healthcare workers in Piedmont between June 2023 and September 2026, emphasizing the need to address shortcomings in the healthcare system and waiting lists. #SanitàPiemonte #AssunzioniSanitarie #EmergenzaOspedali (translated)

Instant Foot indicated that, according to the 2026 Ballon d'Or ranking it attributed to CIES, Lamine Yamal would have won the trophy for the second consecutive year. The account specified that the ranking was based on individual performances, the level of matches, and the results obtained. Michael Olise was in second place, ahead of Harry Kane, Lionel Messi, and Désiré Doué. Following were Kylian Mbappé, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Pedri, Erling Haaland, Pau Cubarsí, Victor Osimhen, Achraf Hakimi, Vinícius Júnior, Rodri, Dayot Upamecano, Rayan Cherki, Nuno Mendes, Jérémy Doku, Raphinha, Joshua Kimmich, Vitinha, Kenan Yıldız, Luis Díaz, Federico Dimarco, Yan Diomandé, and Lautaro Martínez. Ousmane Dembélé was ranked 27th, ahead of William Saliba, Christos Tzolis, and Dominik Szoboszlai. Instant Foot then asked its subscribers what they thought of this ranking. #BallondOr #Football #LamineYamal (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)

The authors of the play 'Federico,' canceled by the Junta of Castilla and León under the government of Vox, have denounced censorship and ideological interference in the arts, emphasizing the importance of remembering the crimes against humanity committed during the Civil War and Francoism. #Censura #MemoriaHistórica #Teatro (translated)

The mayor of Palencia, Miriam Andrés, from the PSOE, has offered cultural spaces for theater works that may be censored in Castilla y León, following the cancellation of the play 'Federico' for ideological reasons, thus defending plurality and cultural freedom. #Cultura #Censura #Palencia (translated)

Aurélien Tchouaméni explained on The Bridge that his altercation with Federico Valverde gained media attention, according to him, because they play for Real Madrid. He added that the incident was not necessarily a problem and that their relationship was now normal, both in the locker room and on the field. Tchouaméni stated that he had no dispute with Valverde. #RealMadrid #Football #Tchouaméni (translated)

Actu Foot reported, citing Marca, that Eduardo Camavinga could be the surprise for Real Madrid in the Clásico and that José Mourinho was considering starting him against Barça. According to the report, Federico Valverde is expected to play as a right back, while Arda Güler was predicted to be on the right wing. https://t.co/iVcxNkWo3u #RealMadrid #Clásico #Football (translated)