ROME - Leonard Cohen was probably one of the few artists who never felt intimidated by Bob Dylan.

FLORENCE – The first showing of Director  Annemarie Jacir's

ROME – Tuscan-born director and screenwriter, Vittorio Taviani, died aged 88 on Sunday, his family said.

ROME – A conceptual music composition of the American musician and composer John Heineman will be presented on April 24 at Tor Vergata University, Rome.

CAGLIARI – D.H.Lawrence was right when he wrote that Sardinia is “like no other place.  It is something else.”

ROME -- Art buffs expressed outrage Sunday after vandals seriously damaged the marble funeral tomb of the 15th century Renaissance painter and monk Blessed Fra Angelico in the basilica of Saint Mar

ROME – Thursday's dazzling first night performance of Shakespeare's tragi-historic play Richard III at the Teatro Arciliuto near Piazza Navona proved a huge success. The dynamic, all-female cast di

ROME – Casa di Goethe, Rome’s only German museum, will be featuring work by Austrian artist Robert Gschwantner on May 30 to Oct 23.

SAN GIMIGNANO – Local authorities and heritage experts were assessing the damage to the Tuscan city of San Gimignano on Wednesday morning after a 20-metre section of its historic walls collapsed, w

  FLORENCE - International film-makers and connoisseurs will descend on the Tuscan city of Prato from May 20 to 23 for the sixth edition of the city’s film festival (PFF

  FLORENCE- Between March 30 and April 2, the Renaissance city will host a series of celebrations for Easter, with many established customs cherished by both locals and

ROME – Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino’s film about the life of Silvio Berlusconi, will be released in two parts in April and May of this year, and promises to explore one of Italy’s most c

ROME – One of Italy’s most recognisable television presenters, Fabrizio Frizzi, died on Sunday night, according to an announcement by his family, at the Sant’Andrea hospital in Rome.

ROME - Life is a Fairy Tale is a beautifully poignant and refreshing piece of theatre, written and performed by Glyka Stoiou.

ROME – A scholar has excited interest in the art world through a unique analysis of Botticelli’s famous artwork, the Birth of Venus, arguing that there is a secret refence to the human anatomy.

ROME – A new exhibition opens on the slopes of the Palatine Hill on Wednesday, celebrating one of the lost gems of Renaissance Rome, the legendary Farnese Gardens, begun in the middle of the sixtee

  FLORENCE -  The changing roles of social media and the internet in the evolution of society will be the main focus of a festival devoted to the Middle East, tak

MILAN - Beginning on Friday, thanks to BeNordic, Milan city centre will change into a corner of Northern Europe for a total of three days.

  FLORENCE- For the first time in nearly half a century, the Uffizi Gallery will enable visitors to appreciate the Contini Bonacossi collection, including masterpieces b

CASSINO – The authorities in Cassino were at the centre of controversy on Monday morning after the attempted unveiling of an incendiary war monument, which commemorates “all the fallen,”

ROME – Michelangelo may have hidden his self-portrait within a drawing of his friend, Vittoria Colonna, according to a paper published by scholars working under Dr Deivis De Campos from the Federal

  FLORENCE -- The capital of Tuscany amongst many attractions, is distinguished by its embodiment of Renaissance architecture, beauty and art.