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...Identittiby Mithu Sanyal, translated by Alta L Price, V&Q Books £12.99 Questions about race, culture and belonging abound in this entertaining debut by German journalist and academic Mithu Sanyal....
...But by the time it was completed in 1819, the then monarch, Ferdinand VII, decided that the royal art collection (shaped by his predecessors Charles V and Philip II) should be exhibited instead....
...The Bureau of Past Managementby Iris Hanika, translated by Abigail Wender, V&Q Books £12.99 Hans Frambach works at the Berlin bureau that gives the novel its title, whose mission is to help the country...
...John V Baldwin Cernobbio, Italy...
...His apartment is “a micro-V&A” of eclectic religious artefacts and exotic antiquities....
...courtauld.ac.uk, 020 7848 2526, to January 18 Giovanni Battista Moroni, Royal Academy, London The UK’s first survey of the northern Italian Renaissance painter who expressed a new realism and interest...
...timothytaylorgallery.com, 020 7409 3344, to February 21 Demimonde, Amberwood House, London Situated opposite the V&A, Amberwood House, built in the 1920s, is the former home of Margot Fonteyn....
...Since its renovation nearly a decade ago, the 300-seat Dom Pedro V Theatre in Macau’s Unesco-recognised historic centre has regained much of its lapsed glory....
...Benedict surprised millions of Catholics when he announced on February 11 that he would abdicate, making him the first pontiff to step down voluntarily since Celestine V in 1294....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Ángel Gurría-Quintana …………………………………………………………….....
...Idzikowski’s photograph albums were bought by the V&A at auction in June 2008....
...Angel Gurría-Quintana is the FT’s fiction reviewer ………………………………………………………....
...Garcia de la Concha, director of the RAE, recalls explaining to García Márquez what the suggested reforms (dropping accents, ditching the silent h, eradicating the differentiated use of g and j, and b and v)...
...Later, standing in the Palazzo’s forecourt, Morari told me that Federico and Charles V had played tennis here during the latter’s visit. “Can you imagine playing tennis with Charles V?”...
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...He goes on to recall an adage from the time of Emperor Charles V about Latin being the language to speak to God, and Hungarian being the language to speak to the devil....
...A 2002 conference in Rome found him in the company of Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the Vatican's congregation for bishops and a possible future pope....
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