In the late 70s, many young Italian doctors probably dreamed of emigrating to the USA, to work in a major urban hospital or perhaps start a practice in some small university town.

 In “The Painted Palace”, Mary Jane Cryan gives readers a unique insider view of life in the historic town of Vetralla, near Viterbo, and the sprawling former noble residence of the Piatti family,

 New Jersey natives will surely be grateful to see James Pettifer unpacking stereotypes and misconceptions about their beloved state in his new book, Meet You in Atlantic City  — to name o

 ROME – Pakistani Ambassador to Italy H.E.

 MILAN – The world’s largest interactive exhibition dedicated to scientist Nikola Tesla is opening in Milan.

 TRENTO – The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto (Mart) is launching a series of exhibitions and events for its Mart’s Grand Autumn 2019 programme.

 ROME -- A conference on modern slavery will be held at Marymount School on Friday Sept. 27. Details can be found at the following link:

 ROME - Artist William Kentridge’s 550-metre-long mural along the banks of the Tiber is disappearing.

 NAPLES – The “Naples Naples: Of Lava, Porcelain and Music” exhibition is opening September 21, at the Museum and Royal Forest of Capodimonte. 

 ROME - The company Sanex is holding an online poll to choose an Italian artwork to be restored as part of its "Libera l'arte" publicity campaign.

 ROME – 10 September marks the opening of the “Living Memory” exhibition at the Historical Museum in Cassino. 

 LIVORNO – Executives of Sotheby’s Italy and non-profit organization Italian Union of the Blind (UIC) are under investigation for the alleged auctioning of a statue secreted to Lo

 ROME - Italian literature has often been enriched by writers of the north-eastern frontier region where Italian, Germanic and Slavic cultures mingle.

ROME – The renowned Italian writer and film director Luciano De Crescenzo died Thursday, aged 90, after being hospitalised in the Eternal City two weeks ago with pneumonia, according to his publish

ROME – Thousands of “Rangers and Rovers” of the Scout organisation (boys and girls between 16 and 21) will come to Italy July 27 to August 3 in one of their biggest international gatherings of the

ROME – One of the richest collections of art from Magna Graecia, the world of Greek settlers in pre-Roman Italy, will once again be open to the public Thursday af

ROME - Shortly before the opening of his retrospective, conceptual artist Matt Stadleigh is found floating in the Thames. Suicide is suspected.

FLORENCE - The history of Italian Jews observed from a new and chromatically kaleidoscopic perspective, that of the art of fabric: it is The Colors of Judaism in Italy, a great exhibition

NAPLES – French American chef Michael Roper has finished second behind Raffaele Barresi of Pasticceria Capparelli in Naples, in the 2nd San Gennà … un Dolce per San Gennaro pastry competit

ROME - There have been many studies of Benito Mussolini and Rodolfo Valentino but Giorgio Bertellini’s ‘Il Divo and the Duce’ brings them together as celebrities whose seductive masculinity made a

ROME - Flavius Claudius Julianus Caesar, often referred to as "Julian the Apostate", was born in Constantinople in 331 A.D.

 ROME -- Désirée Giorgetti is a Milanese, French-Italian actress who came screaming and fighting onto the international stage after her debut film, Raffaele Picchio’s Morituris (2011),

ROME – The murky realm of cultural control, overseas “influence” in the face of declining “hard power,” was the subject of the Euro-Gulf Information Centre (EGIC)’s most recent talk.

ROME – As part of a project to open to the public the maze of passages and chambers buried beneath the Roman baths, renowned artist Fabrizio Plessi’s exhibition offers one striking interpretation o