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The Italian Cultural Society of Sacramento kicks off its 32nd annual film festival Friday with a trip to Tuscany and tale about art, attraction, deception and authenticity.
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Mario Balotelli drove to Liverpool training on Thursday in his £240,000 Ferrari F12 Berlinetta that has been shipped over from Italy.
The 18 coffins were placed in two neat rows beneath the late-afternoon sun as the mayor and other dignitaries took their seats inside the hilltop cemetery. A Catholic vicar-general offered a homily. A Muslim imam unfurled a small rug and knelt in prayer, his singsong voice rising above the stone mausoleums toward the blue of the Mediterranean.
Sophia Loren, Italy's national cinema icon and eternal diva, turns 80 this week and is marking the milestone with a book of memoirs revealing details of her rags-to-riches life.
Controversy as Giuseppe Grassonelli's Malerba wins Sciascia-Racalmare prize, named after writer who challenged Cosa Nostra. The memoir of a mafia boss serving life imprisonment for a string of murders has won a Sicilian literary prize named after one of the first Italian writers to challenge – not without controversy – the Cosa Nostra.
A keenly awaited biopic of beloved Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi, one of three Italian films contending for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, was screened on Monday at the Lido.
Al Pacino made two trips up the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, with a pair of movies about aging, regret, giving up and letting go.
Italy’s Foreign Minister Frederica Mogherini will replace Catherine Ashton as the EU’s head of foreign affairs while Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will be the new president of the European Council.
A group of four gay men in Italy got more than a bill when the check for their meals arrived — reports say the waiter actually printed a warning that the table contained 'faggots' on the receipt.
Italians – yes, Italians – are shocked by events at the idyllic fishing port - the latest example of bad behaviour by tourists visiting the country this summer