Pat Eggleton
Articles by Pat Eggleton
Tue, 12/22/2009 - 05:42
Italy has been famous for its calendars ever since the publication [by the company’s UK subsidiary] of the first Pirelli Calendar in 1964. Whatever th…
Mon, 12/21/2009 - 06:00
Madonna is the face of Dolce & Gabbana’s Spring / Summer 2010 Collection and, in pictures released in this week’s Italian edition of Vanity Fair,…
Mon, 12/21/2009 - 04:48
90% of Italians will spend this Christmas at home with their families and 75% will choose products made in Italy, reports La Stampa.Many would not dre…
Fri, 12/18/2009 - 10:34
Words by Pat EggletonBuongiorno a tutti and I hope you are feeling festive. If an Italian Christmas is special, a Sicilian one is a feast worthy of al…
Thu, 12/17/2009 - 04:13
Burgers and other fast food have new competition from this week in the form of one of Italy’s oldest foods: polenta, the staple food of the Roman legi…
Thu, 12/17/2009 - 03:48
Mr Berlusconi is expected to leave hospital today, after being kept in for a night longer than was expected following Sunday’s attack. The Premier had…
Wed, 12/16/2009 - 04:15
The Chief Public Prosecutor of Verona [Veneto] has caused controversy by choosing a black Holy Family for the crib which is displayed in the city’s Co…
Wed, 12/16/2009 - 04:01
Italians of all ages love Disney and commuters are as likely to be engrossed in a Topolino [Mickey Mouse] comic as their British counterparts are in a…
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 04:23
It’s official: the most elegant man in the world is Italian. The prestigious French “Prix The Best 2009” has been awarded to Gianluca Bisol, of the Bi…
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 03:58
There are two things that everybody is talking about in Italy this week: one is, of course, yesterday’s physical attack on the Prime Minister and the…
Mon, 12/14/2009 - 04:46
The buildings which once proudly housed Guglielmo Marconi’s Telecommunications Station are in a sorry, dilapidated condition despite their historic im…
Mon, 12/14/2009 - 04:00
The news that Prime Minister Berlusconi had been injured by an aggressor during a political rally in Milan travelled round the world at breakneck spee…
Fri, 12/11/2009 - 03:39
I nearly cried back in Cardiff, Wales, when the men from the removal company started packing my books: I watched, horrified, as they took one from thi…
Thu, 12/10/2009 - 06:20
Looking forward to Christmas but secretly worried that you may put on a few pounds? Take comfort in the fact that you are unlikely, if you do, to be t…
Thu, 12/10/2009 - 05:34
If you were in Naples last night you could have been forgiven for wondering if Christmas had somehow passed you by and if it was New Year’s Eve alread…
Wed, 12/09/2009 - 04:37
One thousand small wine producers from twenty countries who met in Montecatini Terme [Pistoia, Tuscany] from 5th – 7th December have produced a Manife…
Wed, 12/09/2009 - 03:59
The poinsettia plant is as much a symbol of Christmas in Italy as the presepe [crib] that is found in almost every home.With their bright red colour a…
Tue, 12/08/2009 - 10:11
Silvio Berlusconi, Umberto Bossi, Mariastella Gelmini, Rosy Bindi,: these are just some of the politicians who have been making news this year. But…
Mon, 12/07/2009 - 04:29
The Twitter feeds made interesting reading at around midnight, Italian time, on Friday – Saturday night. The verdict in the Knox trial was expected a…
Fri, 12/04/2009 - 09:07
Buongiorno and welcome to my column "Patti Chiari", everyone, wherever you are. I’m Pat and I’ve been writing Italy Magazine’s “latest news” articles…