Pat Eggleton
Articles by Pat Eggleton
Wed, 04/07/2010 - 03:33
A mystery that quickly became known in Italy as “il giallo del lago” [“the whodunnit of the lake”] has been solved. It began on Sunday when a passer-…
Tue, 04/06/2010 - 09:53
Jacopo Bassano at Bassano del Grappa
Celebrating the 500th anniversary of the birth of its most famous son, the town of Bassano del Grappa is ho…
Tue, 04/06/2010 - 06:34
Yesterday was a solemn Easter Monday in L’Aquila [Abruzzo] as preparations were made for the night-time commemoration of the earthquake which struck t…
Thu, 04/01/2010 - 05:44
Words and Pictures by Pat Eggleton Good Friday is not a holiday in Italy so most of us go about our business much as usual on that day. If you are in…
Thu, 04/01/2010 - 04:56
The behaviour of common toads in the L’Aquila area changed dramatically in the days leading up to last April’s earthquake, reports Dr Rachel Grant of…
Thu, 04/01/2010 - 04:11
Too busy to go to the gym? Maybe you haven’t got time to go furniture shopping either? Your worries are over for Italy Magazine has found the perfec…
Wed, 03/31/2010 - 06:21
As the first act of a new administration it was a dramatic one: at dawn on Tuesday the new Mayor of Porto Cesareo [Lecce, Puglia] signed an order for…
Wed, 03/31/2010 - 05:49
In this photo: Wall paintings in Domus Area A 60-metre [645 square feet] section of the roof over Neros’s Domus Aurea or Golden Palace collapsed at ar…
Tue, 03/30/2010 - 09:48
The Vatican finds itself on a full media offensive following accusations that the Catholic hierarchy did not respond to, report or take action regardi…
Tue, 03/30/2010 - 06:49
Geophysisist Enzo Boschi told Corriere della Sera yesterday that an undersea volcano could erupt and cause a tsunami which could swallow up the south…
Mon, 03/29/2010 - 11:03
The left-wing intellectual, author and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally murdered on November 2nd 1975. Now former Mayor of Rome Walter V…
Mon, 03/29/2010 - 10:35
Here’s a heartwarming story to kick off the week: last Thursday a sixty-year-old homeless man in Ivrea [Piedmont] found a wallet containing 1,100 euro…
Mon, 03/29/2010 - 03:40
The Italian Post Office intercepted an envelope containing a bullet and addressed to Mr Berlusconi at his private Milan residence on Saturday. The sus…
Fri, 03/26/2010 - 11:37
In an ambitious exhibition opening today in Siena, the story of the transition from the Gothic period to the Renaissance is told. Three hundred and si…
Fri, 03/26/2010 - 06:57
Words by Pat EggletonThe Modican poet Antonio Lonardo lives in an apartment full of light under the town’s famous Guerrieri Bridge. I first met him at…
Thu, 03/25/2010 - 11:05
Mina, Italy’s Queen of Pop, is seventy years old today. The event is being celebrated in the music world everywhere and Mina has already received birt…
Thu, 03/25/2010 - 08:02
Picture by Christine WebbRome is up there with Paris, St Petersburg, London, Havana and, perhaps surprisingly, the demure British city of Bath in the…
Mon, 03/22/2010 - 06:14
In a crime which has sickened people all over Italy, a woman doctor on duty as guardia medica [emergency doctor] was attacked and raped in the Sicilia…
Mon, 03/22/2010 - 05:54
An Italian girl who died in 1989 at the age of eighteen is to be beatified on the 25th September this year. Beatification is an important step in the…
Fri, 03/19/2010 - 05:41
Words by Pat EggletonI am not, by nature, one of life’s chirpy, cheerful early birds but on alternate Thursdays I am up at what is the crack of dawn t…