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The list of events for summer evenings in Rome this year looks good and is long enough to satisfy almost every taste in every part of town.
But the season has had an inauspicious start. The opening night of the Teatro...
Today there is little left of Monterano, once a bustling town built on tufa rock in rolling wooded Etruscan countryside about 50 km northwest of Rome. It used to be the feudal seat of the Orsini and Altieri families but...
Walk through any major square in Italy over the next couple of weeks and chances are you will be stopped and asked to lend your support to a campaign titled
After two years of hearing prime minister Silvio Berlusconi tell Italy that the economy was in fine shape and that Italians were better off than their European fellows, the message has been reversed. Berlusconi, the eter...
Rome is where you reckon with your past, where you take stock of history and your own doings. When the thoughtful, moody and deeply committed New York School painter Philip Guston, one of the
Marcia Plevin is a busy woman. Since 2005 she has been working as a dance movement therapist at the Bambin Ges
Restoring a roof or, even worse, buying a new boiler, are the maintenance jobs that everyone dreads. Remodelling the kitchen, re-planting the terrace, commissioning a painting or even restoring grandma
Some of the people sitting under the columns looked bored, others indifferent. All were carrying bulging bags and some clutched bottles of water, as though afraid they would not find anything to drink again for days. All...
How an idyllic colony of Scandinavian artists in a mountain village in Abruzzo came to a sudden end after 30 years.
Early in the morning of 15 January 1915 the Abruzzo region was hit by an even more terrible earthquake...
In January 1921 when Alexander Hardcastle first set foot in Italy, no one
Just inside the main door to the building two women were having an anxious discussion over the rubbish bins. One bin was labelled organic and the other non-recyclables. So where were they to leave their paper? A passing...
On grounds that Greek culture was decadent, Cato the Elder (234-149 BC) tried to stem the advancing tide of Hellenism for, as the sturdy old farmer-soldier-politician wrote to his son,
On 10 March 31-year-old Angelo Russo hung himself in his cell at Poggioreale prison in Naples. A schizophrenic, he had been arrested just two weeks previously on suspicion of raping a 19-year-old girl at a psychiatric ho...
Just out of art school, growing up in the New York art world in the late 1940s, you took the Hopper paintings down at the Whitney Museum on 8th Street with a grain of salt. Their white New England spareness, their stony...
What a wonderful period this is. The air teases our senses with the smells and fragrances of spring and the roses are in full bloom. Here are some of the many interesting gardens that are open to the public in and near R...
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