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Often in more specialized circles, there is talk of the “Overton Window” – the conditional shift of the political “center” to the left over time, as ideas once considered quite ordinary are today presented in society as “extreme”. Here we will go back 100 years, to the time of the Bulgarian National Union of Socialists and Alexander Stamboliyski. The government …

On October 6, 1600, the world's oldest surviving opera, Euridice, premiered at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. The music for the work was composed by the Florentine Jacopo Peri, and the libretto was written by the poet Ottavio Rinuccini. Dedicated to the wedding of King Henry IV and Marie de' Medici, the work establishes fundamental …