ROME - The poet and engineer Francesco Terrone, a frequent contributor to the 

  ROME - June 8 will see the opening of a new exhibition by English artist Damien Hirst at the Galleria Borghese, curated by Anna Coliva and Mario Codognato. Over 80 works from Hirst’s 'Treasures f

  VENICE - After two years of restoration work, Wednesday finally saw the reopening of the Palladio Wing of the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice.

  ROME - For the last few years, emigration by the Turkish middle and upper classes has been an increasingly common thing.

  SIENA - When the Palio di Siena didn’t take place on its usual day for the first time since the Second World War, its reigning champion, Giovanni Atzeni, holed up in his backyard stable outside h

  FLORENCE - The museums and galleries of the Tuscan capital have announced the next stage of their reopenings, in line with Florence's transition into a yellow zone from Monday, starting with the

  VENICE - The Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice has announced its reopening for Wednesday 28 April, in line with the Veneto region becoming a yellow zone.

   MERCATO SAN SEVERINO -- The competition, made possible by the patronage of Sidelmed S.p.A.

  ROME  - On April 19, 1932, Luis Fernando Botero Angulo was born in Medellin, Colombia, the second of two brothers, in the home of David Botero Mejía and Flora A

    NAPLES - Observing, thinking and then writing. These are the three stages that for more than 30 years have characterised my poetic production.

  PROCIDA - The island, that was in January nominated as Italy's 2022 Culture Capital, announced on Thursday that it is to hold the inaugural '50 top rosé' competition.

  ROME - Shamira is a beautiful Venetian, and an artist who decided many years ago to aspire to a prestigious goal: to be, with her art, a vehicle for openness an

  VENICE - "We are ready to open all of the museums of the city on April 24 and 25," said Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro, l

Loving Modigliani: The Afterlife of Jeanne Hébuterne,

Linda Lappin, Serving House Books 2020

  ROME - Nemi, a small town in the Alban Hills 27 kilometres from Rome, has scored a recent double coup 

  ROME - For the first time, the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome will be offering a Licentiate in Judaic Studies and Jewish-Christian Relations, th

  FLORENCE - To mark the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of the French poet Charles Baudelaire, the Uffizi gallery will be releasing a video of his poem 'Hymn to Beauty' from his 'Fl

  MONZA - A 17th century painting by the French artist Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) has been recovered in an art dealers in Padua almost 70 years after it was taken from its Jewish owners in Poitier

  SIENA - The incredible discoveries in 2020 of the remains of a Roman sanctuary at San Casciano Dei Bagni are being published in an authorative work on the excavations of the site.

  ROME - A prayer vigil organised by the community of Sant'Egidio was being held Monday evening at 6:30 p.m.

  VENICE - To celebrate 1600 years since the city's founding, a chorus of bells rang out at 4 p.m. on Thursday to pay tribute to the city.

  ROME - With Italy’s Dantedì celebrations in full flow, an article from a German newspaper seemingly criticising the great poet has caused much polemics, with many furious Italians leaping to defe

  MILAN - As part of the “Per quel cammino ascoso” initiative celebrating Thursday’s Dantedì, the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, the ‘Naufraghi Inversi’ theatre company have launched a project

  FLORENCE - The restoration campaign of the Giotto's frescoes in the Magdalene Chapel, which houses the oldest portrait of Dante, has come to an end, in time for the celebrations planned for the 7

  TURIN - The University of Turin has released its programme of conferences, lectures and exhibitions to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante, on March 25, or 'Dantedì'.