FLORENCE – The portrait of Dante by the Tuscan Renaissance artist Andrea del Castagno, held at the Uffizi Gallery, has been restored by the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence.

  BERGAMO - Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Thursday travelled to Bergamo monumental cemetery to mark the new memorial day for victims of the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy, put in place by Pres

  ROME - Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, has accused the Italian government of acting like a “third world country” after the Council of State, the body that monitors the legal

  ROME - On the 160th anniversary of the unification of Italy and the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy, President Sergio Mattarella addressed the country, saying that Italy is a country capable

  ROME - Nearly 200,000 people in Italy having missed their vaccination appointment after the government announced the suspension of the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine throughout the country.

  AUCKLAND - Team New Zealand have beaten the Italian yacht Luna Rossa to win the America's Cup, the oldest international sporting trophy in the world, for the second time in a row. The Kiwis won t

  MADRID - The last real hope for an Italian team to make it to the quarter finals of the Champions League was on Tuesday night extinguished when Real Madrid beat Atalanta 3-1.

  NOLA - The Recovery Plan is "an extraordinary opportunity that must not be wasted,” said Senator Francesco Urraro, during a meeting this week with the President of Conf PMI (the national represen

  ROME - Nearly three months after the UK’s messy departure from the European Union, thousands of British nationals living in Italy are still facing the co

  ROME - Enrico Letta, the former Prime Minister of Italy, has been elected the new secretary of the Democratic Party (PD), after the former leader of two years, Nicola Zingaretti, stepped down las

  ROME - With more regions of Italy red than not, and mainland Italy looking a distinct orange/red colour (Sardinia still white), the government have finally addressed the third wave of Covid-19 ca

  ROME - During the latest weekend of Serie A action, Inter stretched their lead at the top of the table with a 2-1 victory over Torino, and Juventus’ win 3-1 against Cagliari brought them just a p

  ROME – Italian wine exports were at 6.29 billion euros in 2020 – a fall of 2.2 per cent from the previous year.

  NOLA - On the back of Pope Francis’ visit to Iraq, where he promoted harmonious Christian-Muslim relations, Conf PMI, the representative organisation for small and medium sized businesses, and WH

  FLORENCE - The green light has been given for work to start on the Vasari Corridor at the Uffizi Gallery in preparation for its public opening next year.

  TRAPANI - Four migrant rights defenders from the 'Iuventa' search and rescue ship have been charged by prosecutors in Sicily for "aiding and abetting illegal immigration to Italy".   

  ROME - Lawyers, politicians, journalists and others from the “professional caste” are being accused of using their privileged position to jump the vaccine queue after it was revealed that 950,000

  ROME – The route back to the top table of Italian football has been a long one for the AC Milan faithful with Gazzetto d

  ROME – Starting in June, Italy will be the first European country to take on production of the Russian Covid-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, and will hope to produce 10 million doses by the end of the yea

  VATICAN CITY - In his first general audience since returning from Iraq, Pope Francis spoke about the damage he saw caused by extremism in the country, and the affect on the Christian po

  FLORENCE - Pope Francis’ new personal doctor, Roberto Bernabei, is one of 39 university

  KERKENNEH - At least 39 people have died, including four young children, after a ship carrying migrants capsized off the coast of Tunisia.