PALERMO – The Palermo city library was scheduled to be dedicated to Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia on Wednesday, the 99^th anniversary of his birth.

 ROME - The rivalry between two early 19th century sculptors, Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen, re-emerges in simultaneous major exhibitions in Rome and Milan.  In Milan their works are brough

 ROME – Caravaggio may be the highlight, but there is far more to appreciate and discover in Palazzo Barberini’s new display of sixteenth and seventeenth-century art.

 ROME – Early twentieth-century photographs preserved on glass plates provide a unique window into Bulgarian daily life of the period in the Museo di Roma in Trastevere’s new exhibition, “Bulgaria

 ROME – Domus Grimani 1594-2019, the exceptional exhibition celebrating the return to Palazzo Grimani of the collection of classical statuary that once belonged to the Patriarch of Aquileia, Giovan

 ROME -- When Alasdair Gray published Hell in 2018, followed this year with Purgatory, there were already dozens of translations of the Divine Comedy available.  Despite

 ROME – A private sale of clothes and accessories designed by Dame Vivienne Westwood was held at the British Ambassador’s Residence in Rome Wednesday to Saturday, with some proceeds going to the ch

 ROME – The fourth edition of the Torino Short Film Market has concluded with success and to the satisfaction of organisers and participants.

 FLORENCE – The Boboli Gardens and the Wilanów Palace Museum of Warsaw are working in partnership to look after and promote their historic citrus plant collections, The Florentine reported

 ROME – An exhibition on Italian architect Gio Ponti opened Wednesday at MAXXI with a fascinating display of plans, drawings, magazines and architectural models.

 ROME--The dusty path that snakes through the landscape in the world's most famous painting is actually a river, according to an Italian art historian who recently restored a copy of the Mona Lisa

 ROME – The 56^th Nuova Consonanza festival began Wednesday night in the Testaccio area of the capital with In Piena Luce, an evening of music and readings dedicated to female journalists

 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.