4 November 2026 – Wednesday
4 November 2026 – Wednesday

When Caravaggio Leaves: Can a Masterpiece Change a City? 

Monday Briefing 02/11/2026

Who Owns the Cities?

Europe’s Champion Dilemma

So, Where Are You From?

Perché abbiamo ancora bisogno dei classici greci

Editorial Director | elisa.latora@studbocconi.it | + posts

Having lived both in Italy and the UK, I enjoy exploring how multiculturalism affects our personal identities. I use language, writing and journalism as tools to decipher the world around me. And, I will of course never turn down a lively convo about current news. With a degree in Economic and Social sciences, I’m now pursuing a master’s in Politics and Policy Analysis. 

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End of a journey: The Wandering Lions Editorial (Epilogue)

The end of a journey always implies the beginning of a new one. As the Bocconi campus roars back to life, full of excitement for what this new semester has in store, our summer issue The Wandering Lions comes to a close. 
The end of a journey always implies the beginning of a new one. As the Bocconi campus roars back to life, full of excitement for what this new semester has in store, our summer issue The Wandering Lions comes…
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End of a journey: The Wandering Lions Editorial (Epilogue)

The end of a journey always implies the beginning of a new one. As the Bocconi campus roars back to life, full of excitement for what this new semester has in store, our summer issue The Wandering Lions comes to a close. 
The end of a journey always implies the beginning of a new one. As the Bocconi campus roars back to life, full of excitement for what this new semester has in store, our summer issue The Wandering Lions comes…
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Summer 2025 Issue Editorial: The Wandering Lions

"When exams are over where are you going?" During these summer months, when the Bocconi campus empties, we look for the places that matter to us beyond Milan. Every week until September we'll bring you a new set of stories each exploring the places that make us who we are.
Like every year, as the days grow longer and hotter, the emptying halls across Bocconi start echoing with one question: “so, after exams are over, where are you going?” A mosaic of answers: some are yearning for home, others…
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What books to read in 2025

Our team has carefully hand-picked a selection of fascinating reads to recommend for 2025. These books will take you on a journey across the globe, from the US to South Korea. We hope they will guide you, as they have guided us, toward a deeper understanding of the world we live in. Happy new year from Tra i Leoni!
Our team has carefully hand-picked a selection of fascinating reads to recommend for 2025. These books will take you on a journey across the globe, from the US to South Korea. We hope they will guide you, as they…
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Monday Briefing 9/12/2024

With the fall of the French government, a leadership crisis in South Korea, and the toppling of the 54-year-old Assad regime in Syria, this week there has been a lot to cover.
With the fall of the French government, a leadership crisis in South Korea, and the toppling of the 54-year-old Assad regime in Syria, this week there has been a lot to cover. Have a read to catch up on…
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Monday Briefing 18/11/2024

In this week’s Monday Briefing we put the spotlight on the 29th UN Climate Change Conference and its consequences on the global stage. In other news, we look at Italy’s second attempt to send asylum seekers to facilities in Albania, which has been again blocked by judicial ruling.
In this week’s Monday Briefing we put the spotlight on the 29th UN Climate Change Conference and its consequences on the global stage. In other news, we look at Italy’s second attempt to send asylum seekers to facilities in Albania, which…
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Monday Briefing 11/11/2024 – The Special Edition: US Election 2024

The US election has dominated the news-biosphere over the past week. It is for this reason that we thought it necessary to sum up the main takeaways from this election in a Special Edition focused entirely on the US presidential election.
by Elisa Latora, Vatsal Aggarwal and Pietro Ferrari The US election has dominated the news-biosphere over the past week. It is for this reason that we thought it necessary to sum up the main takeaways from this election in a Special Edition…
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Monday Briefing 14/10/2024

This week we bring you an insight into the US Justice Department potential plans’ to split Google. In other news, we talk about the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, the Israeli attacks that wounded two UN peacekeepers, and the possible…
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Monday Briefing 07/10/2024

In the first Monday Briefing of the semester, we start your weekly recap remembering the Oct. 7 anniversary. We also bring focus to the Tunisia presidential election, the German local elections and the EU membership proceedings in Albania and…
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Monday Briefing 06/05/2024

In the last Monday Briefing of the semester, we write about press freedom in Israel, focusing on the recent news of Al Jazeera having been banned in the country.  In other news, we look at developments of the war…
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Monday Briefing 29/04/2024

This week we focus on the UK’s Rwanda Plan, which was just passed after having been one of the year’s most contested bills in migration regulation. In other news, tens of thousands of Colombians protest their president’s social reforms,…
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Monday Briefing 22/04/2024

This week we take a peek at Trump’s criminal trial as it begins.  In other news, on Friday the world’s biggest election kicked off in India, the US House approves $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan,…
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Monday Briefing 15/04/2024

This week we analyse the consequences of Iran’s unprecedented missile attack on Israeli soil. In other news, we look at: Slovakia’s presidential election outcome; how preparations to the upcoming Olympic games are changing a struggling Paris suburb; and the EU…
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Monday Briefing 25/03/2024

The Monday Briefing is out! Let’s get you up to date on what has happened over the past week. From a special focus on Friday’s Moscow attack, we go on to talk about the escalating chaos in Haiti, and…
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Monday Briefing 04/03/2024

The Monday Briefing is out! Let’s get you up to date on what has happened over the past week. From a special focus on US primaries, the funeral of Navalny in Moscow, and Houthi attacks on British ships in…
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Monday Briefing 26/02/2024

The Monday Briefing is out! Let’s get you up to date on what has happened over the past week.  From Trump’s growing wins in US primaries, in Italy police clashes with high school students supporting Gaza ceasefire spark outrage,…
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A cinematic guide to hopeful solitude 

Let’s journey across some of this year’s most beloved movies, from Vim Wenders “Perfect Days” to Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers”. Along the way we’ll find that cinema is coming to a hopeful characterisation of solitude, leaning away from a…
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Monday Briefing 19/02/2024

The Monday Briefing is back! Let’s get you up to date on what has happened in the past week.  From internet blackouts in Sudan as the civil war rages 10 months on, to the detention of political opponents in…
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This Time Artists Strike!  

Over the past six months the US television and film industry has experienced a formidable stop in production that has come to be felt worldwide. The usual streamlined production of on-screen(s) content at the tip of our fingers, to…
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An anniversary with eyes on the future: the Bocconi association JEME celebrates 35 years. 

The Bocconi student association JEME, offering non-profit strategic and managerial consulting services to businesses since 1988, celebrated its 35th anniversary this year. On Saturday, a team from Tra i Leoni had the opportunity to attend and report on its…
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Good Talk: Conversations on the unique bond between language and identity

In the largely multilingual context which we inhabit on the daily, both inside and outside the Bocconi campus, language plays a key role in defining our relationships with others. But language also lives in constant evolution within ourselves. How…
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Women Behind the Camera  

Gender inequality behind the scenes in the film industry is a problem of which origins dates back to centuries before the invention of cinema itself. However, these past two years, two women, Chloé Zhao and Jane Campion, have won…
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Book recommendations for 2023

We put together some of our favorite reads from 2022 for you. Fiction and non-fiction, our choices will allow you to travel across space and time without ever leaving your home. Happy 2023 from Tra i Leoni! Les Choses…
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Fighting our battles: Can current green energy technologies save us from climate change? 

In 2015, the Paris Agreement was the first climate change treaty directly aimed at limiting the rise of global temperatures to between 1.5°C and 2°C (above pre-industrial levels). Ever since then, climate action has focused on setting an inter-governmental…
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Richard Avedon: Relationships at Palazzo Reale

The temporary exhibition will be kept on display inside Palazzo Reale’s grand exhibition rooms until the 29th of January 2023. The exhibition is organized by Palazzo Reale and Skira Editore. It is coordinated in partnership with the Center for…
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Why cognitive patterns predispose to fake news consumption

Most of us are able to recognize an unknown and untrustworthy news source and call it out as such, but what happens to this ability if supposedly reliable figures exploit fake news to their own advantage? A number of…
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A Flickering Golden Ticket: the “color-blind” Casting of Hamilton: An American Musical 

In 2016, when Hamilton: An American Musical first opened on Broadway its pivotal innovation comprised telling the story of America’s founding fathers through performers of color. This musical became their ‘golden ticket’ into an industry living off of white…
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What’s gonna make me famous? The ethics of giving media spotlight to criminals.

Sometimes, with little regard to unlawful actions, an audience will be solely captivated by the moral integrity of a character fighting for what is right. But what happens when storytelling takes on real-life tales while still favouring the criminal’s…