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The author wrote that in two days two responses had arrived, but none had answered the question. He also reported that on Tuesday, October 27, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, led by Matteo Salvini, had requisitioned trains, planes, taxis, and local transport for the general strike on Friday, at the recommendation of the Commission. #Sciopero #Trasporti #Politica #IT (translated)

On Friday, October 30, a general strike will take place in over 50 Italian cities, causing disruptions in schools, transport, healthcare, and public and private offices, in response to the economic difficulties and the policies of the Meloni government. #ScioperoGenerale #Protesta #DirittiLavoratori (translated)

Ultimora.net reported that a 24-hour general strike was scheduled for Friday, October 30, with marches and demonstrations in various cities against the rising cost of living, increased military spending, and the policies of the Meloni government. According to the website, grassroots unions were demanding higher wages, more resources for public services, and measures to contain rents. The mobilization would involve various transport sectors, including trains, planes, taxis, highways, and ports, with possible disruptions for travelers. #ScioperoGenerale #Carovita #GovernoMeloni (translated)

Starting Friday, there will be a discussion among the leaders of the Democratic Party, M5S, and Avs regarding the programmatic lines, while the centrists are preparing for a meeting to seek a unitary alliance for the upcoming elections. #PoliticaItaliano #Centrosinistra #Elezioni2026 (translated)

The Cinghio wrote that Ore11 had accurately reconstructed his thoughts on the rumors. He claimed that since Friday evening he had been talking about a news story prepared to discredit a possible positive opinion of Dr. Nanni on Alberto's review, adding that the "own goals" were increasing. #Garlasco #Garlasco #indiscrezioni #autogol #Garlasco (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)

Pope Leo XIV said he prayed for the people killed and injured last Friday in the terrorist attack against the faithful of the Orthodox Church of St. George in Hamoud, Jordan. He added that he is close to the community and the entire country, which he described as characterized by peaceful coexistence and respect among the different religions. #Preghiera #Pace #Solidarietà (translated)

Catiuz reported that Megan had criticized the fact of raising controversies on the show, on Friday evenings, over a food issue, while Piera had described it as a slap in the face of poverty. Catiuz accused the two of inconsistency, arguing that they had previously accused Marina, for two check marks during a shopping trip, of having caused hunger. He defined the situation as madness. #gfvip #gfvip #cibo #povertà (translated)

The author had hoped that the block dedicated to the couple would also be skipped on Friday, which she considered fake, and that at midnight the clip would be shown in which Piera asked about the president's birthday. She had also encouraged Ilary. #gfvip #GFVIP #RealityShow #Televisione (translated)

Marco M.M. wrote that, after many weeks, the blue coloring would return to interest the Peninsula. He explained that on the map he indicated the isotherm of 0 °C at 850 hPa, at about 1,500 meters in altitude, and predicted a further drop in temperatures over the weekend, accompanied by moderate instability. According to his forecasts, there would be snowfall above 1,300 meters in the central-eastern Alps and the first snow would arrive above 1,800-2,000 meters in the central-southern Apennines. He also indicated minimum temperatures near or below zero in many pre-Alpine and Alpine areas already from 500-600 meters, and in the central Apennine areas above 1,000-1,200 meters. For the period from Friday, October 23 to the early hours of Monday, October 26, he anticipated weather similar to that of the first decade of November. #MeteoItalia #Neve #Inverno (translated)

Valentali had said goodbye along with Melania and recounted that she had said she would sleep with Megan, but he didn't believe her. He then indicated that the only goal of the day was to vote for Ale Pier, whom he referred to as "our rude guy," and asked to bring him to at least 40% by Friday, claiming that he deserved it. #alepier #gfvip https://t.co/8erqhKNhqi #votare #gfvip #politica (translated)

Cristina Correani has written that her son, who works in logistics, told her that since Friday the goods platforms in Campania were not delivering to the stores, leaving the staff idle and the supermarkets with empty shelves. She criticized the deployment of the army on the roads by Giorgia Meloni, joking that this would have solved the situation, and directed an insult at those responsible. #logistica #Campania #supermercati (translated)

Many of you still do not know what my decision is, but we will find out, and you will find out too. It is an excellent decision: it will be a positive choice for the country and, I believe, also for the world, given that we are truly on a global stage. This is what Donald Trump said in response to a question for clarification regarding the freeze on the application of new sanctions against Russia provided for by the Graham Act, based on his executive order signed Friday evening. #Trump #Russia #Iran (translated)