Books

Culture
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
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
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 Italy, but it may have the most bizarre tales to tell.Four years ago when as…
Lifestyle
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
by Nico Lorenzutti | Fri, 11/04/2011 - 08:17
Emilio Salgari’s The Black Corsair As she lived in Italy, my nonna never got the chance to read to me as I was growing up. My parents,displaced by the Second…
Culture
by Rebecca Lloyd | Fri, 10/14/2011 - 06:57
I moved to Italy 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 Italy. I taught, to…
Culture
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…
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…
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
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…