Culture

ROME -- Thirty-one British and 58 other non-Italian lecturers at Italian universities have had their salaries cut by up to 60 percent following application of an Italian "race law." The universitie

ROME-- Ten years after Giovanni Agnelli’s death, the National Automobile Museum in Turin which was named after him in March 2011, is commemorating his memory with

ROME-- American director Barry Brunetti’s personal interpretation of Pinter’s Old Times previewed Sunday at the English Theatre of Rome

 ROME - “I avoid use of the word ‘character’; it puts a distance between the actors and their role," says Barry Brunetti. "They are recreating human beings,”

SIENA--  From Passion to the Resurrection, a route amongst the masterpieces of the monumental complex of the Cathedral of Siena for the Year of Faith.

ROME- The English Theatre of Rome presented a weekend of 'laughs, lust and love at Teatro l’Arciliuto' in Piazza Montevecchio late last year.

GUERNSEY, THE CHANNEL ISLES – Guernsey is a 32 square mile (78km) island that surprises with its host of places of beauty and interest packed into such a small space.

ROME - Oscar-prediction rages as English cinemagoers have a handful of Best Picture nominees to choose from.

ROME – Glamour actress Gina Lollobrigida has made a complaint against her ex-fiancé who she claims married her by proxy and without her consent.

FLORENCE - During a large part of the middle ages, the gold coin of Florence, the Florin, was the major European currency.

ROME - Cullen Murphy sees the Inquisition not as a remnant of an obscurantist era happily left behind but as harbinger of surveillance States which pry ever more insistently into peoples’ lives.

ROME -In 1978 when Aldo Moro, former Italian Prime Minister, was kidnapped by the Red Brigades, the prisoner’s voice desperately cried out to be heard --  nobody listened.

 ROME -- Whoever said wine and Japanese food don’t go together should try a new initiative of sushi aperitifs with Prosecco at Rokko Restaurant in Passeggiata di Ripetta, 15 in Rome.

ROME - Pier Paolo Pasolini was a essentially a poet, a film director and a journalist. To Italy, he was a scandalous figure.

 DETROIT, Michigan - On route back to Rome after the holidays, I caught up with an old friend in Detroit where one of my favourite new folk bands, The Flutter and Wow were performing in a local pub

 AGRIGENTO, Sicily -- They call them the “Patriarchs of the Valley of the Temples.” The trunks twist, suspended between sky and earth, expressing pain and suffering from the night of time.

ROME - Perhaps the most dazzling yet under-utilised resource for English authors in Italy is the Open Door book shop in Trastevere’s via della Lungaretta.

ROME - It’s an original journey into the history and evolution of the most current trend in contemporary fashion and at the same time a tribute to the evocative power of yesterday’s style.

 NEMI --A botched bid by a tomb robber to smuggle a statue from Italy has renewed interest in the long-neglected Temple of Diana on the shores of Lake Nemi