Italy may block big da Vinci loan to Louvre

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Italy may block big da Vinci loan to Louvre

A blockbuster Louvre exhibition to mark the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death may not be as blockbuster as all that, if far-right members of Italy's government have anything to do with it. They are thinking of scrapping a deal to lend Paris's most famous museum all of Italy's Leornados for the event.

The deal, signed by former Italian culture minister Dario Franceschini, was "unbelievable", current junior culture minister Lucia Bergonzoni, a member of the far-right League, told the Corriere della Sera newspaper.

"To give the Louvre all these paintings would put Italy on the margins of a major cultural event," she said.

The Louvre is planning the show for 2019.

http://en.rfi.fr/20181117-italy-may-...ci-loan-louvre

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Why we should give the Louvre Italian works of da Vinci? So France gets more money from the event? I don't think so...
If people want to see Italian works of da Vinci they should come in Italy.

And for Christ sake, The League is not a far-right party nor we have a far-right government in charge... why foreign presses continue with this shit?

Far-right parties are parties like Casapound or Forza Nuova.