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why isn’t http://dp-test.dm.unipi.it/ listed in Sites, while the year-long defunct DP-Eu is?
Unfortunately we have been struggling to keep the blog as up to date as we would like lately, and the list of links to other sites is one of the things we know we need to review, now that we are getting back on track.
How do I suggest a book translation? How about the works of Diego Deza? An important theologian in geo-political history and one of the progenitors of the Spanish Inquisition.