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For years prime minister Silvio Berlusconi seemed *to lead a charmed life. Now his luck is running a trifle thin and previous certainties have begun to shake. In March he was not sure whether to campaign hard for the reg...
Lottomatica Roma ended the regular basketball season with a loss against Bipop Carire RE, but that didnt stop the squad from sneaking into the sixth seed for Legabaskets Serie A play-offs, which kick off on 11 May. Lotto...
The director Giorgio Barberio Corsetti has moved the action of this Tosca, which opens this years Maggio Musciale festival in Florence, to the 1960s, giving rise to inconsistencies such as the references to Napoleon but...
Its like a cheese cutter, isnt it? The two stone cutters laughed and nodded. In the middle-distance, silhouetted against a blue April sky, the town of Tivoli was tumbling over its hill. Around us, down on the plain in Ba...
This is a marvellous production of this much-loved opera. Da Ponte created a delightfully witty libretto from the very slenderest of plots, observing human behaviour, as in all great comedy, with profundity, sympathy and...
The Czech Cultural Institute opened in Rome last month, making it the republics 19th foreign cultural institute in Europe and the United States. Director Miloslav Hirsch already has four exhibitions, two conferences, thr...
Italys financial world has been tossed into a frenzy* by recent bids from outsiders to take over two domestic banks, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) and Antonveneta. The bids from Spains Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria...
Its like a cheese cutter, isnt it? The two stone cutters laughed and nodded. In the middle-distance, silhouetted against a blue April sky, the town of Tivoli was tumbling over its hill. Around us, down on the plain in Ba...
One of Florences most delightful and exclusive gardens is tucked away in a corner of Piazzale Michelangelo. Every day, droves of tour buses converge on the vast terrace overlooking the city to let their occupants enjoy t...
Prior to a few weeks ago, my knowledge of martial arts was based exclusively on the films Enter The Dragon, The Karate Kid, and the complete works of Chuck Norris. Naturally, it was a pleasure to take several lessons at...
Turandot, Puccinis last opera and one that can be said to be the last great opera ever composed, was left unfinished at the composers death in 1924. Although composition was suddenly interrupted before what Puccini had p...
If by chance you happen to visit the Ligurian coast on 30 April, turn the wheel of your car off the motorway at Varazze and drive down the hill onto the ancient Via Aurelia. Along this Roman road, which in the past conne...
The 60th anniversary of Italys liberation on 25 April lies on the cusp between history and living memory. There are still a few who remember the event as adults and it is still close enough not to be just history. The da...
The new pope Benedict XVI, elected swiftly on the afternoon of 19 April, has chosen a surprising name, one that symbolises a break with the popes of the last 50 years. Since the reformer Pope John XXIII, who opened the S...
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger has been elected as the new pope. Appearing on the balcony above the main entrance to St Peters basilica at just after 18.30 Tuesday 19 April, the 78-year-old German waved briefly to the Romans,...
Taxes rank alongside communists and magistrates in Silvio Berlusconis list of pet hates. The prime minister once famously said that he understood people who sidestepped taxes that were too high. And, putting his policy w...
Up to now, great mirth or derision have always greeted the legend that Rome was founded on exactly 21 April in 753 BC or 2,758 years ago this month but now one of the greatest experts on the origins of Rome has come u...
The 21-mile (32 km) cross-Channel swim between Dover and Calais is notoriously one of the most taxing challenges a long-distance swimmer can tackle.
Although marathon swimmers attempt longer distances in competitions...
Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861-1949) was born in Philadelphia of a Swiss-Jewish immigrant family who had made shrewd investments in the mining industry. He and his wife Irene had been collecting old masters when they met Hi...
And the Lord God said unto the serpent,
Because thou hast done this,
Thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field;
Upon thy belly shalt thou go,
And dust thou shalt eat all the days of thy li...
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