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Villa I Tatti in Fiesole, in the hills above Florence, was for over 60 years the home of renaissance art entrepreneur Bernard Berenson and his wife Mary.
Roger Fry, Maynard Keynes, Edith Wharton, the Sitwells, Rosamund...
Three years shy of its 50th birthday, Alitalia is in a bad way coughing, spluttering, shivering with fever and getting worse by the day. The national airline has been in poor health for some time, ending ten out of the...
A young, up-and-coming Italian press baron waxed militant over the right of the countrys immigrants to vote in local and national elections.
"Never relent," he urged them. "The future belongs to you. Win this battle for...
Representatives of European diversity
This year, Genoa is a European capital of culture. The European Union established the programme in 1985 in order to highlight European diversity. It started with cities symbolic of...
Ancient Roman history is full of contradictions. The apparent inconsistency is between accounts of the glorious splendour and wealth of the empire on the one hand, showcased in the capital, and the tales of squalor and f...
The editor and owner of a newspaper catering for what he called the most maligned immigrant community in Italy acknowledged: In the beginning, there was a real press campaign against us. We were attacked and held respons...
Bankers are never the most popular of people. But in Italy at the moment they rank somewhere below politicians and traffic wardens in the publics esteem, with their collective nose perhaps just in front of drug-pushers....
After the Lutheran revolution, which set out to bring the Church back to its basic values, the backlash of the baroque period began. The aim of the art of the Counter-Reformation was to project itself, to stun, to exhort...
More than in most countries, Italian politics, especially in the Berlusconi era, needs adrenaline to fuel debate; big and supposedly critical issues dominate over the everyday ones. The prime minister has made it very cl...
Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is not a magic spell, though it sounds like one and seems to work like one. This exotic-sounding string of words is the core of the doctrine of the 13th-century Buddhist sage, Nichiren Daishonin, who...
Industrial action can bring out the worst in people. Sometimes it triggers verbal abuse or violence. Sometimes it produces thought-crime. Stranded recently in the rain on the wrong side of town by a transport workers wal...
For the first time in the history of Rome, 289 immigrants from a plethora of states are now fighting each other invisibly to most Romans for 24 brand-new chances to get their voices heard in the citys seats of power....
The film industry is an important part of Romes economy, providing work for thousands of people, but it is facing increasing financial competition from all over the world.
The citys mayor Walter Veltroni (well-known for...
Although Via del Teatro di Marcello, which runs into Piazza Venezia, is a big street with a lot of traffic, theres no traffic light. One day, while hoping to cross, I saw some young tourists step into the street and, wit...
If youve ever dreamed of living in a castle, this could be your chance. A young family from Rome took the plunge a few years ago. They moved to the Gran Sasso national park in Abruzzo and opened a restaurant in Rocca Cal...
On a hill overlooking Rome in the Castelli Romani, 15 ageing monks are about to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of the foundation of an unusual abbey.
It is the abbey of S. Nilo, which dominates the tiny village of G...
At a stones throw from the concrete ring of the Gran Raccordo Anulare, wedged between Via Nomentana and Via Salaria in north-east Rome, is an oasis of lush fields, dusky woods and gentle hills on which flocks of plump sh...
A holiday on a working farm, or agriturismo, is a bit like holding a friends baby: you can enjoy the good bits without any of the responsibility. You can eat locally-grown food without having to work the fields; enjoy th...
The love affair between Italy and Egypt is centuries old, although today the military and commercial links dating back to ancient times have been replaced by tourism. During the 19th century co-operation between the two...
For smokers in Italy, the rules are changing. Come January 2005 smoking will be banned in all bars and restaurants, unless the owner is prepared to provide a specially ventilated area for smokers. But in a country where...
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