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Alpaca International CEO awarded by Peru embassy The owner of Alpaca International was named this week as the Successful Peruvian Business Woman in America 2014 by the Embassy of Peru. Zia Boccaccio accepted her award in Washington, D.C.
March 10, 2014 - Juneau Empire
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- Jean-Claude Trichet in Toronto Star
European-ness,Trichet said on that occasion, "means being unable fully to understand my own country's literature and poetry - Montaigne, Châteaubriand, Baudelaire and Mallarmé - without understanding Dante and Boccaccio, Cervantes and St. John... - Rana Dasgupta in Rediff
I am deeply indebted, not only to Chaucer and Boccaccio, but to many other medieval storytellers,says Dasgupta. "Strangely enough, they provide a language that seems more appropriate to our age than the realist tradition of the 19th...