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Celebrated English writer Tim Parks has just published a new book: Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence. It tells the story of the Medici family, and the intriguing, often bloody story...
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...
In a recent development, the Italian supreme court ruled that speed cameras provide sufficient evidence for issuing fines. In this way, penalties are valid against speeding motorists even when they have not been stopped...
With the arrival of the Italian summer the countrys forestry service is stepping up its campaign against forest fires. Although anti-arson measures have been reinforced and the time it takes to put fires out has decrease...
A chance meeting resulted in Anthony Majanlahti penning a book on Rome that is earning favourable reviews. Majanlahti, originally from Toronto, was working as a history researcher at the British School at Rome when he me...
A man walking his dog recently near Capena, in the countryside to the north of Rome, came across what appeared to be a strangely shaped stone. When the dog sniffed it the stone turned into a very aggressive alligator ter...
Fewer Italians are dying from drugs but they are experimenting at ever-younger ages, says a government report. Italian kids are smoking joints from the age of 11, and by 15-16 many are regularly abusing marijuana. Part o...
Three people who have contributed to life here in Rome will be recognised at an award ceremony on 17 June in Rome.
American Edna Goldfield founded the Economy Book and Video Center, an international bookshop, which clos...
Its a scene often played out in Rome sightseers wandering the city and looking on in awe at its treasures, bored children straggling behind. Now a map-guide, newly-translated into English, called Rome for Kids and Famil...
In 2000 the richest one per cent of Italians owned 17.2 per cent of the countrys national wealth compared with just 10.6 per cent in 1989, according to a Bankitalia study published in Italian daily La Repubblica. The nex...
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...
Italys referendum to change the highly conservative 2004 legislation on assisted fertility has not reached the necessary quorum of 50 per cent of the voters plus one. Across the country the turnout average about 26 per c...
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...
Not to be outdone by Paris and Berlin, Rome is bringing the seaside into the city, onto the banks of the river Tiber. From 18 June it will be possible to go to the beach below the walls of the Castel S. Angelo, hire an u...
The Rome city council has decided that the areas of the city centre of Rome closed to unauthorised traffic during the day, known as the ZTL (zona a traffico limitato), will also now close on Friday and Saturday nights fr...
Ikea 2 is expected to open in Rome at 07.00 on 15 June.
Its home will be the biggest shopping centre in Europe, which is being built at Via delle Vigne Nuove beside the ring road (GRA), near the beginning of the Rome-F...
Troubled times for museums and libraries in Rome, as cutbacks are leading to staff shortages, waiting lists, and shorter opening times. In response to these numerous problems, the Italian labour union (UIL) will stage a...
Two species of white coral have been found off the coast of Puglia in the south of Italy. The coral, called Mardepora Oculata and Lophelia Pertusa, was thought to have been extinct in the Mediterranean since the sea warm...
Figures have been released by voluntary prison visitors that show that Italian prisons are housing excessive numbers of people, many of whom are suffering from serious infectious illnesses. On 1 June there were 59,012 pe...
A new survey of 13-19 year olds at one of Romes oldest secondary schools, the Tasso in Via Sicilia, reveals some of the habits, beliefs and passions of the so-called T Generation. In the poll, conducted by the students t...
On Sunday 12 June, Italy and 76 other countries will take part in the third annual event Fight Hunger: Walk the World to raise money and awareness to help end child hunger. The event is sponsored by the United Nations Wo...
The prefect for the province of Rome, Achille Serra, has decided to reintroduce the ruling that no drinks may be served in bottles or glasses at night in the most popular squares of Rome's historic centre during the summ...
In a referendum on 12 and 13 June, Italians will decide whether to amend or keep the present law that controls medically-assisted fertilisation. The law, which was passed by parliament in 2004, is considered one of the m...
Regulations governing football stadiums with seating for 10,000 or more spectators will change next season.
The move follows the recent increase in football violence in Italy. In a drive to stop hooligans, electronic, n...
Italians use on average 213 litres of water every day, according to a report published by the Italian department of civil protection. This is the highest and most-wasteful domestic consumption in Europe, probably because...
A political row about the successes and failures of the single European currency has been waged in Italy since the French and Dutch rejections of the European Union's constitution, on 29 May and 1 June respectively. The...
Over 90 per cent of Italians support the ban on smoking in public places, according to a new study by Italian research institute Doxa. In the survey of 3,114 Italians of 15 years and over, 87 per cent said they would ban...
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