Italy's Meloni pays visit to exhibition on Tolkien, her youthful obsession


FILE PHOTO: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni looks on as she waits for Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob at Palazzo Chigi, in Rome, Italy, November 14, 2023. REUTERS/Remo Casilli/File Photo

ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited on Wednesday a new exhibition on British novelist J.R.R. Tolkien, whose globally popular books have also become a cult in Italian right-wing circles.

The exhibition "Tolkien. Man, Professor, Author" was inaugurated at Rome's National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, marking 50 years since the author's death, and includes letters, memorabilia and manuscripts.

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