When the Institut du Monde Arabe was plunged into darkness and Valentino’s latest show was about to begin, a single, familiar voice cut through the silence. “On February 1, 1941, in a dark age, when the fury of war sweeps across the land and the anti-aircraft units tear the silence up the skies, a young student of the Faculty of Humanities in Bologna sends a letter to a childhood friend,” the voice began. “He writes: ‘the night I toldhellip;read more raquo;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;View Gallery (80 images)nbsp;