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Italian right-wing activists have reportedly had to be rescued from drowning, after a stunt attempting to show how easy it is to cross between Italy and Tunisia went embarrassingly awry.
In 1975 a worker at the car firm Fiat went along to an auction of lost property organised by the Italian national railway in Turin. He paid 45,000 lira (£32 – equivalent to about £300 today) for two paintings that caught his eye – one a still life and one an image of a woman relaxing in her garden.
The Italian navy rescued 730 migrants from overcrowded boats in the Mediterranean Sea south of Sicily, it said Wednesday.The migrants, who departed in two boats from North Africa, are being taken to a port in Sicily's Agrigento province, the navy said in a statement.
Italian special operations units have arrested 24 secessionists who were allegedly planning a violent campaign aimed at gaining independence for the wealthy north-eastern Veneto region.
A training barracks used by Roman gladiators and the 2,000-year-old mausoleum of the Emperor Augustus could be restored with money from the Saudi royal family, in the latest effort by Italy to secure funding for its crumbling cultural heritage.
A new exhibition charts how postwar Italy transformed the world's perceptions of it, using its greatest export: style. The word glamour originally meant magic or enchantment: to "cast a glamour" was to cast a spell to make something appear different from reality. And it is glamour in this sense – what the author Virginia Postrel calls nonverbal rhetoric – that is at the heart of the V&A's new exhibition, The Glamour of Italian Fashion 1945-2014.
Daniele De Michele, a bearded and boisterous D.J. and performance artist who is one of Italy’s most inventive food activists, is on a yearlong journey to explore and document the country’s working-class and peasant culinary traditions.
Italy must do more for the migrants who land on its shores, many in dire straits, Lower House Speaker Laura Boldrini told MPs on Monday.
Website, smartphone app and Facebook page being set up for canonisation of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II
Italy's new prime minister threatened on Monday to resign if a plan to reduce the powers of the upper house of parliament, a central part of his ambitious constitutional reform agenda, is blocked.