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Your kids love pasta, pizza and ice cream, you're enthusiastic about history, culture and shopping -- then a family vacation in Italy promises to be a treat for everyone in the family.
An Italian garage attendant accidentally smashed a $450,000 Ferrari 599 GTO into a building when he was delivering the luxury vehicle to its owners Monday morning.
The year-old Italian interiors magazine Cabana is dedicated to the principle of gemütlich, a German term referring to an intimate, comfortable feeling. “That word summons this vision,” says Cabana’s editor in chief, Martina Mondadori.
The kitchen at Fiola on Pennsylvania Avenue, in Northwest D.C., is bustling. Chef Fabio Trabocchi and his team are busy preparing for the restaurant’s second Passover Seder. But unlike many traditional American Seder…
The Guardian’s correspondent chooses books from Goethe to Michael Dibdin which reveal an ‘eternally deceptive’ country
When I arrived in Perugia, Italy, after the body of Meredith Kercher had been found, in what was described as “a lake of blood,” in November 2007, the air was thick with rumors.
The French have brandy, the Scots and the Irish have whisk(e)y and the Italians have... grappa. Outside Italy it's often been seen as a rough old stomach-burner, and even inside Italy it's not exactly fashionable. But could this ancient drink be on the verge of a revival?
The Italian government is on high alert after threats from the Islamic State called Italy “the nation signed with the blood of the cross.” Italy is one of a handful of major Western counties that has not been victim of a large-scale terror assault since the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S.
Following Marco Mueller’s exit from the troubled Rome Film Festival last year, Antonio Monda is stepping in to fill his shoes as the new artistic director.
Similar to Mueller, Monda has both a production and academic background. He is currently an associate professor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, lecturing on Italian cinema and Hollywood auteurs
A letter by Albert Einstein that is unusually written in Italian has fetched £49,000 at auction.
The Austrian genius’s 1925 missive to Italian electrical engineer Giovanni Giorgi defends his 1915 theory of relativity in the face of strong criticism.