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2 unusual facts about Santi Paladino


Santi Paladino

Santi Paladino (1902–1981) was an Italian journalist, politician and writer, who is best known for his theory that Michelangelo Florio was the real author of the works of Shakespeare, a view he propounded in several publications from 1927 on.

In Villa's version Florio becomes Shakespeare quite literally, after he is adopted by John Shakespeare.


Corrado Gini

On October 12, 1944, Gini joined with the Sicilian activist Santi Paladino, and fellow-statistician Ugo Damiani to found the Italian Unionist Movement, for which the emblem was the Stars and Stripes, the Italian flag and a world map.


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