Articles by ITALY
Mon, 02/27/2012 - 04:40
Last night at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony, Dante Ferretti and Francesca Loschiavo won the Oscar for Art Direction for Hugo by Martin Scorsese. Th…
Fri, 02/24/2012 - 03:24
Milan women's fashion week kicked off last Wednesday and will run until the 28th of February. The event includes 72 catwalks and 137 collections showc…
Thu, 02/23/2012 - 05:38
It certainly looks like some Italians think "stripping" seems a good way to boost business in these times of economic hardship. Few weeks ago we talke…
Wed, 02/22/2012 - 04:59
On Tuesday, Monti's government launched "Operation Transparency" posting the Italian ministers' salaries and assets online in an effort to boost trans…
Wed, 02/22/2012 - 03:39
Alitalia has recently signed a special deal with Lottomatica, one of the leading game market players. Starting from the 1st of March 2012, Alitalia fl…
Tue, 02/21/2012 - 04:45
Yesterday, Italian Nobel Prize winner for Medicine Renato Dulbecco ied at the age of 98.He was born in Catanzaro, in Calabria, and studied medicine at…
Mon, 02/20/2012 - 05:58
words by Mette Vaabengaard
Italian film won the Golden Bear for best film at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival.
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani…
Mon, 02/20/2012 - 04:54
Three women on the podium of the 62nd edition of Sanremo Music Festival: Emma, Arisa and Noemi.
Emma Marrone, who won the Italian talent show Amici in…
Fri, 02/17/2012 - 05:24
Last night Sanremo Music Festival hosted a special evening dedicated to “gli Italiani nel mondo”, the achievements of Italians around the world, with…
Fri, 02/17/2012 - 04:20
According to the New York Times, Amanda Knox has sold the rights for a memoir on her four-year battle with Italian justice for the 2007 murder of flat…
Thu, 02/16/2012 - 06:04
Yesterday, The Ideal City, the Italian 15th century masterpiece, by an unknown artist, and symbol of the Renaissance, arrived at the European parliam…
Thu, 02/16/2012 - 04:26
Prosecutors ask for Mr Berlusconi to be sentenced to five-year jail term.Italian prosecutors asked for former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi…
Wed, 02/15/2012 - 04:49
On the 7th of March 2012, Rosenblatt Recitals in London will welcome a performance by acclaimed Italian tenor Giuseppe Filianoti. Born in Reggio Calab…
Tue, 02/14/2012 - 05:28
Tonight, Gianni Morandi will host the opening night of Sanremo Musica Festival 2012 with Ivana Mrazova, a Czech fashion model, and Italian actor/direc…
Tue, 02/14/2012 - 04:52
It does not come as a surprise that the city of Verona, home to Shakespearean lovers Rome and Juliet, was chosen as one of the top 10 places to pop th…
Mon, 02/13/2012 - 04:45
Last week US magazine Time featured Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti on its cover with the headline, 'Can this Man Save Europe?', referring to him a…
Fri, 02/10/2012 - 03:44
Italian attorney Nick Metta advises on key estate planning actions for Italian property investors in light of current Italian economic situation. Af…
Fri, 02/10/2012 - 03:32
Yesterday Mount Etna, in Sicily, spat out lava and produced a dense ash plume that extended further afield, stopping flights at Catania's Fontanarossa…
Thu, 02/09/2012 - 03:35
On the 1st of April 2006 we published an April Fool story entitled "Tourists in Pisa surprised to find tower straightened". Back then, the idea that p…
Wed, 02/08/2012 - 04:57
Early this month, a bizarre anti-economic crisis initiative from a Tuscan restaurateur attracted customers ready to strip for a meal on the house.Ales…