ROME – The “Pecora Elettrica” bookshop-café has been set on fire for the second time, say police sources.

 ROME – Elena Ferrante, the pseudonymous author made famous by the Neapolitan Novels, has published a new novel which arrived in Italian bookshops at midnight Wednesday, reported Il Messaggero

 ROME – The Rome Savoyards’ latest production, George Bernard Shaw’s “The Philanderer,” opened with an amusing and thought-provoking performance of a play that, while indisputably of its time, can

 ROME – In the presence of Finland’s new ambassador to Italy, Pia Rantala-Engberg, Michele Dall'Ongaro, president of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, the curators and some authors of the essa

 ROME -- Pat Conroy and Mike Mewshaw were great friends but it did not last.  Conroy was a best-selling novelist while Mewshaw is a talented but less successful novelist, memorialist and journalist

 ROME – Galleria Borghese’s new exhibition, dedicated to eighteenth-century master metalworker Luigi Valadier, opens Wednesday with an astonishing collection of works in an array of styles.

 ROME – Donald Olson’s new play Oscar and Walt was performed for the first time on Friday at John Cabot University.  Inspired by real events, it depicts a meeting between two unquestioned

 ROME – This weekend the Eternal City will become the backdrop to a spectacular display of lights and projections for the second year of the “Solid Light Festival,” part of Videocitta.

 ROME – The eviction of the historic Antico Caffè Greco has been postponed to the end of January following a widespread show of support for the café, says Il Fatto Quotidiano. 

 ROME – La Giostra di Nina, or Nina’s Carousel, a short animated film by Valerio Berruti, is being shown at MAXXI, the Italian national museum of twenty-first century art, until Oct.

 VENICE – Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man can go to Paris, the Veneto regional administrative court has ruled.

 ROME – The Robert Morris exhibition “Monumentum” opens Friday at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome.

 Rome -- Gaby Ford's latest production in conjunction with the John Cabot University opens at the end of October.

 ROME - Thanks to Maker Faire Rome, for 3 days from Oct 18 to 20, Rome this year will become the European capital of innovation, hosting one of the most important worldwide events about innovation,

 ROME – The new exhibition “Michelangelo in Colour” at Palazzo Barberini opens to the public Friday --it features sketches by Michelangelo and paintings by Marcel

ROME – The 16th edition of the prize of the Taste Group of the Foreign Press Association in Italy will be held in Ascoli Piceno Nov.

 ROME – The Italian Insider approaches its 10^th anniversary amidst future uncertainty, but reflects on a decade of journalism from dozens of young reporters, many of them studen

 ROME – Leonardo da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man” may not be lent to the Louvre after all, following a court ruling.

ROME - It is fitting that another expat historian, friend and colleague Margaret Stenhouse, has continued the research on an almost forgotten personage, Cardinal Henry Stuart, with her historical n

 Anthony Alegrete Talks to Playwright Donald Steven Olson About His New Play, “Oscar & Walt”

 VENICE - The first memorial reef balls in Europe have been used to commemorate three people including two Americans in an unusually environmentally friendly way in the crystal-clear waters of the

 Calabria is sometimes seen as a backward region corroded by a criminal underworld but this afflicts mainly its southern zones.  A recent trip to its northernmost province revealed instead a surpri

 In Images and Shadows, Iris Origo takes readers into the Edith Wharton-like atmosphere of her American grandparents’ mansion but can also describe Wharton visiting it and making a catty r

 ROME – A pioneering film about Italy's ruthless business world directed by a former oil company executive has just finished a month's shooting in Rome.