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Organisers of the Criss Cross exhibition at the Swiss Institute say that it provides an opportunity to see that Switzerlands achievements extend beyond traditional images of designer clocks, military knives and chocolat...
The tortured and improbable tale which unfurls in this opera is a further rehash of that so beloved of Christian hagiographers, the wayward harlot who in one way or another sees the light, of whom the two best-known exe...
This year, the British Council celebrates its 60th anniversary in Italy, and while it is assessing its changing role over the years, the organisation is about to experience transition of a different kind: the lease on it...
The men stand in a line, adorned in feathered caps and fishing vests, preparing to cast. Eleven oclock and two oclock they say, back and forth. The lines snap forward then back, and then finally release, sending the bait...
Most people would be amazed to learn that Rome has its own tango underworld. A small community of about 800-1,000 people are either learning to tango or going regularly to the hidden milongas, or dancehalls, that are sca...
A major battle begun in 1953 is still being waged today to beat off incursions into and to consolidate the stupendously evocative countryside of ancient Rome. Thanks to past victories, a vast pastoral landscape of peace...
Each year the Keats-Shelley House in Rome holds a poetry competition in both English and Italian for young people. This year the prizes in the English section were won by Adrian Moore, 9 years, in the 5-9 age group, Han...
Italian legislation on assisted fertility has gone from one extreme to the other. First Italy had an unregulated anything goes system,* which led to notorious cases of granny births and gave the country the nickname of t...
You are a busy criminal lawyer, representing defendants. On your desktop computer you list and index all your clients, including the allegations against them, any criminal record, arguments in their defence, keyed in ver...
Ever since King Carlo III of Naples started excavations in 1748, thousands of studies have been made of the lost city of Pompeii, but the site still comes up with surprises. For the last ten years, a laboratory of applie...
For more than 150 years this steep horseshoe-shaped park was an important part of the tourist itinerary in Tivoli. It was visited by artists, poets, kings and emperors, but then it fell into a state of abandonment and di...
Golf is a rather strange and reviled game. Ask any non-golfer and you may find that he or she still agrees, even at a subconscious level, with Mark Twains old dictum about a good walk spoiled. Is golf a sport? Well no, n...
l An exhibition by German Barbara Camilla Tucholski might never have taken place after more than 100 drawings were stolen from a minibus while the artist was giving a tour to students in November 2004. However, the art s...
After the turn of the century, Severini, like many of his generation repelled by the past, then also became increasingly impatient with the experiments of pointillism and divisionism. Suddenly something wild swept up the...
The irresistibly tragic tale of Pia de Tolomei has provided inspiration for an opera by Donizetti, a painting by Dante Gabriele Rossetti, and mention by various poets, including Ezra Pound, T.S.Eliot and, most famously,...
As Rome's football team, Roma, flirts with a trip to Serie B, its upstart basketball squad is racing toward the Legabasket championships. Lottomatica Roma defeated defending Italian league champion Montepaschi Siena in f...
One winters day the ants were drying their store of grain when they were approached by a cicada. Could I please beg a few grains to eat, Im so hungry and there is no food to be found. Why didnt you think of that in the s...
Malevich invented pure abstraction. Born in Kiev in 1878, he came to Moscow around 1908 and was drawn into the circles of young avantgarde artists around Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova. They were interested in t...
An advertising company wanting to make a statement about ethnic diversity and integration in Italy today couldnt have come up with a better concept. The 18-piece Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio brings to the stage three rel...
With the approach of summer, does curiosity suggest a quick trip to Krakow? Have you business to do in Brescia? Or what about a weekend in Prague? From now on, the probability is that you will be leaving from Ciampino ai...
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