Italy in Brief

37-year-old Elly Schlein took home a surprise victory at last month’s primary for the new leadership of the struggling Partito Democratico (the center-left…

The first national museum dedicated to Enrico Caruso — the Neapolitan voice behind the best-known version of “‘O Sole Mio” — will open this summer, in the year…

Teatro alla Scala’s new streaming service is here, and it almost beats watching from the nosebleed seats. On Valentine’s Day 2023, the renowned Milan opera…

For the first time since the turn of the 20th century, the magnificent mosaics lining the cupola (dome) of the Romanesque-style Florence Baptistery are…

Italy’s longest-running and most anticipated music contest, the Sanremo Festival, will host its 73rd edition from February 7 to 11.  How the Sanremo Festival…

On Saturday, Italian luxury fashion house Gucci announced that Naples-born designer Sabato De Sarno will assume the role of Creative Director. (“Sabato” means…

Culture authorities, stakeholders and press gathered in Rome earlier this week to celebrate the repatriation to Italy from the United States of 60 looted…

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky will address viewers during the broadcast of the final night of the Sanremo Music Festival, Italy's highest-profile and…

Italian actress and postwar sex symbol Gina Lollobrigida died yesterday in Rome at the age of 95. Considered the epitome of Italian beauty during her heyday in…

Italy is seeking UNESCO recognition for the ancient Appian Way, a key strategic route during the Roman Republic. The process has already been, one might say, a…