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Rome exhibition offers new reading of Gentileschi's trailblazing artistic legacy.
By Andy Devane.
The stellar career of Italian early baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi has long been overshadowed by her tumultuo...
The process of applying for Italian citizenship is complicated and costly and the treatment reserved for future Italians leaves much to be desired.
Laura Clarke
To become or not to become an Italian citizen? That is th...
Rome's oldest Irish pub has been an expat oasis for four decades.
Andy Devane
"There were queues outside every night,” Gino Bottigliero reminisces with a nostalgic twinkle in his eye, “we were packed from the start.”...
Italy should educate the public about disaster preparedness before the next earthquake strikes.
Mary Wilsey
“I didn't know that Italy had earthquakes,” was a common comment among foreigners in Italy and abroad soon...
Britain's new ambassador to Italy Jill Morris speaks to Wanted in Rome.
Marco Venturini
Wanted in Rome. Ambassador, like British residents in Italy, even Italians are worried about Brexit. Would you like to talk ab...
Hugh O'Neill was buried in Rome's S. Pietro in Montorio 400 years ago.
Mícheál MacCraith
More and more Irish visitors to Rome are including the Spanish Franciscan church S. Pietro in Montorio as an essential part o...
Rome now has a futuristic new conference centre by Italian architect Massimilliano Fuksas.
Margaret Stenhouse
Sometimes miracles do happen – even in a city as beleaguered and beset with problems as Rome today. Afte...
Roaming the linguistic jungle between Italian and English.
Martin Bennett
Visit Rome’s Bioparco in Villa Borghese and una gazzella is a gazelle, una pantera a panther, un serpente a serpent, and so on. What you see...
Hungary has always nurtured close ties with Italy.
Margaret Stenhouse
Ever since the reign of King Mattias Corvino, the 15th-century Hungarian national hero, a silver thread of culture and faith has linked Hungary...
Alice Pasquini creates street art in her native Rome and in cities around the world.
Federico Borzelli
Like Hop-o’-my-Thumb leaving pebbles to mark the path, Alice has spread her works across the world. But just as...
Events celebrating Anglican-Catholic relations are at the heart of the programme for the Golden Jubilee.
Marcus Walker
In 1966 a momentous event took place which changed the shape of relations between two of the wo...
Artists have portrayed Rome's Non-Catholic Cemetery for three centuries.
Nicholas Stanley-Price
In 1872-73 the English artist Walter Crane spent 18 months on his honeymoon in Italy, most of it in Rome. Influenced b...
Like Rome’s monuments, a stay in the Eternal City is a many-layered experience and needs time to appreciate.
Mike Dilien
“A-NI-MAL! A-NI-MAL!” three year-old Stivan yells. He is sitting on the kitchen floor and dru...
MAXXI celebrates the legacy of Italy's foremost "radical architecture" group.
Jacopo Benci
The exhibition Superstudio 50 at the MAXXI in Rome celebrates the 50th anniversary of Superstudio, the most iconic among th...
The president of the American University of Rome outlines how Lampedusa could turn to archaeology to help it through difficult times.
Richard Hodges
Flying south of Agrigento the blue begins, even on All Saints' Da...
Sir Antonio Pappano talks to Wanted in Rome about the special concert at the Foro Italico on 5 July and the importance S. Cecilia.
Think of taking a symphony orchestra out of its concert hall and moving it t...
Rome plays its part in marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.
Andy Devane
"Not that I loved Caesar less but that I loved Rome more." This is the Shakespeare quotation chosen by Christopher Prentice, Brit...
William Kentridge triumphs with mural along the river Tiber in Rome.
Andy Devane
“Every country has both a heroic history and a shameful history,” noted the internationally acclaimed South African artist William Ke...
The Turano Valley has been of strategic interest over the centuries.
The impressive fortress of Rocca Sinibalda overlooks and protects the tiny mediaeval village at its foot, dominating the meandering lower reaches of t...
Giancarlino's flower cycle in Via dei Cappellari brings back memories of a vanishing Rome.
By Mary Wilsey
“Sono andato in giro tutto il pomeriggio per le strade...” is the opening of the short story, Blumen, by Austria...
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