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Credits: Victoria Shimano

When sport licences what life forbids

ROME — A new exhibition opening in Rome this month poses a question that challenges what Italian society understands as traditional masculinity: why can men embrace, weep, and console one another on a football pitch in ways that no other social setting quite sanctions?

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