ROME -- A 12^thcentury ivory crucifix, known as the “Canosa Cross”, that vanished from the Cathedral of Sabina in Apulia in the 1960s was eventually traced to an antique dealer in Paris i

ROME -- An Italian Home: Settling by Lake Como is Paul Wright's tribute to the robust pleasures of village life on lake Como.  Without being mawkish, it brings out the generosity

AIDONE, Sicily -- The inhabitants of this small and remote town in central Sicily packed the local archeological museum today to gaze at “their” statue, which until recently was a star exhibit of t

ROME– The Tamara de Lempicka exhibition is an achievement.

ROME– The plot of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal is fairly simple and the chances are you will have heard something like it a hundred times before.

ROME — Relics are an easy target -- David Farley hones in on probably the most bizarre — Christ’s alleged foreskin which for hundreds of years was preserved in Calcata,

FLORENCE — Ezra Pound lived a peripatetic existence, his homes are as numerous as the artistic careers he cultivated and nurtured.

ROME– Just after the closure of the successful Caravaggio exhibition held at the Scuderie del Quirinale that celebrated the 400th anniversary of the artist’s death, Rom

ROME- The fashion pack were out in full force at the San Spirito in Sassia for the biannual Altaroma fashion festival which is now in its 18th edition.

ROME -Dante Alighieri is tantalising because he is just beyond reach. Parts of his life are well-documented but much that is important is hidden.

ROME- It’s not often that you get the opportunity to watch Julius Caesar in the Eternal City itself and so I jumped at the chance to observe, as a plebeian, the violent

ROME — A judge has ruled that a prominent Venetian art collector aged nearly 101, Guido Trevisan, must wait until he is 104 for a judicial decision in a long-running di