Eh, what manners

Calimero black chick. No, for heaven’s sake … dark … no, indeed, of color … that is, otherwise white.

Calimero, strange as the ugly duckling, very tender with its jagged shell like a hat, appears for the first time in the advertising of Mira Lanza in 1963. In reality it will be discovered that it is neither black nor different but just dirty.

Eh, what manners! Everyone here is angry with me because I’m small and black … it’s an injustice though.

Good times when you could still say bread to bread and you were not good-natured but good. There are…

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Patrizia Poli was born in Livorno in 1961. Writer of fiction and blogger, she published six novels.

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Patrizia Poli

Patrizia Poli was born in Livorno in 1961. Writer of fiction and blogger, she published six novels.