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Antonio Tabucchi: ��ý’s Master of Mystical Prose Straddles Two Worlds

by Gabi Logan | Fri, 04/20/2012 - 08:37

As a student travelling through Paris following the footsteps of his favourite authors, Antonio Tabucchi bought a book that changed his life. Outside the Gare…

Culture

Share your Italian Book: Romancing in Sicily

by Nancy Barone Wythe | Fri, 12/09/2011 - 08:45

From the fragrance of the jasmine and juniper bushes to the cobalt-blue sky, everything in Sicily, especially Love and Lust, are so much more vivid, so much…

Culture

Share your Italian Book: Fried Flowers and Fango

by Myra Robinson | Fri, 11/25/2011 - 08:44

I’m sure my book isn’t the first to be written about the experience of living in ��ý, but it may have the most bizarre tales to tell.Four years ago when as…

Lifestyle

Jamie Oliver's Revenge on Silvio Berlusconi

by Natalie Aldern | Fri, 11/25/2011 - 04:00

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is well known for his best selling book of Italian recipes, but it turns out that his run-in with the Italian head-of-state was…

Culture

Share your Italian Book: Pirates of the Caribbean all’Italiana. A Childhood Across Two Cultures

by Nico Lorenzutti | Fri, 11/04/2011 - 08:17

Emilio Salgari’s The Black Corsair As she lived in ��ý, my nonna never got the chance to read to me as I was growing up. My parents,displaced by the Second…

Culture

Share your Italian Book: The Second Shot

by Rebecca Lloyd | Fri, 10/14/2011 - 06:57

I moved to ��ý in 2004. I'd worked as a financial auditor for four years in London and taken a two-year career break to live and work in ��ý. I taught, to…

Culture

Auguri! Pinocchio Turns 130 Years Old

by Natalie Aldern | Mon, 07/11/2011 - 05:59

On the 7th of July 1881, Tuscan writer Carlo Collodi introduced a little wooden puppet that would go on to enthrall generations of children around the world…

Wartime Love Letters Mark Liberation Day

by Natalie Aldern | Tue, 04/26/2011 - 04:47

April 25th marks the day in 1945 when Turin and Milan were liberated from Fascist and Nazi troops. Celebrated as Liberation Day, the holiday is one of…

Anti-Mafia Writer Says Cheese is #1 Reason to Live

by Natalie Aldern | Wed, 03/02/2011 - 04:20

If you were forced to live under 24 hour protection after receiving death threats from Neapolitan Camorra godfathers, what would be your top reasons to go on…

Culture

��ý Celebrates Gastronome Pellegrino Artusi

by ITALY | Fri, 02/25/2011 - 03:33

Pellegrino Artusi, author of famous Italian cookbook La scienza in cucina e l'arte di mangiare bene (The Science of Cooking and the Art of Eating Well), can…