After compiling findings from the 2003 to 2009 archaeological dig under the Piazza dei Miracoli (Square of Miracles) in Pisa, scholars have published…
Gabi Logan
Articles by Gabi Logan
Mon, 07/23/2012 - 06:13
On the 22nd of September 2012, 14 of the biggest stars of Italian pop music will head to Campovolo in Reggio Emilia for the Italia Loves Emilia Concer…
Fri, 07/20/2012 - 04:30
Beginning tonight at 9.30 pm with the 11th Canto of Dante's Inferno (Hell), 22 performances of Roberto Benigni's hit show TuttoDante (Everything Dante…
Thu, 07/19/2012 - 08:55
Italian pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi will perform an original international musical collaboration this Sunday at the BT River of Music Festiv…
Thu, 07/19/2012 - 04:47
On this day 20 years ago, the 19th of July 1992, anti-mafia magistrate Paolo Borsellino was brutally murdered in a Mafia car bombing less than two mon…
Wed, 07/18/2012 - 05:27
For the first time since the Costa Concordia sunk off the coast of the Tuscan Isle of Giglio on the 13th of January 2012, former Captain Francesco Sch…
Tue, 07/17/2012 - 04:58
Last Wednesday a baby version of Azzurri star Mario Balotelli—complete with bleached mohawk—joined the figurine of Balotelli in Euro Cup garb on Naple…
Mon, 07/16/2012 - 04:07
Following a poll indicating that the People of Freedom Party (PDL) would gain three times as many votes if headed by former PM Silvio Berlusconi, the…
Fri, 07/13/2012 - 08:47
Dante—one short word, one mononym—because of the words written by one man, has come to mean so many things. Beauty. Complexity. Man’s quest in life. R…
Thu, 07/12/2012 - 08:53
Last Friday, the publication of a two-volume e-book proclaiming that Caravaggio's earliest works have sat unrecognised in a public building in Milan f…
Thu, 07/12/2012 - 00:59
Google has partnered with Italy's largest film archive, the Cinecittà Luce Institute, to digitise more than 100,000 films and 3 million photos and cre…
Wed, 07/11/2012 - 04:56
After 12 years and nearly two billion euros of investment, the newest addition to London's skyline, the Shard, opened on the 4th of July. Funded by Qa…
Tue, 07/10/2012 - 04:04
Celebrated chef and feared restaurant critic Gordon Ramsay was full of smiles and kind words last week during his tour and test drive at Ferrari headq…
Mon, 07/09/2012 - 00:02
The 10 biblical scenes of the eastern bronze doors of the Battistero (Baptistry) in Florence will reunite for public display in the Museo dell'Opera d…
Fri, 07/06/2012 - 01:35
In the northern Grecian port city of Thessaloniki, construction of a a new metro system unearthed a 1,800-year-old ancient Roman highway.The 70-metre-…
Thu, 07/05/2012 - 08:17
The U.S. Department of Defence is installing a ground station for the ultra-high frequency satellite communication network at the U.S. Naval Radio Tra…
Thu, 07/05/2012 - 05:04
In Venice's National Museum of Villa Pisani, fruit sellers, seamstresses and water-bearers cover the walls in the exhibit "The Nobility of Work: Trade…
Wed, 07/04/2012 - 04:37
Sergio Pininfarina, 86, who was best known for designing nearly every Ferrari model since the 1950s, died Monday night in his home in Turin. The forme…
Tue, 07/03/2012 - 07:01
After three years of study, planning and practice, the teenage group Esquilino Junion Theatre Orchestra debuted their original collaboratively-written…
Tue, 07/03/2012 - 05:41
Pope Benedict XVI paid an emotional visit to the areas affected by the earthquakes in Emilia Romagna last Tuesday, personally greeting the residents,…