Silvia Donati
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Silvia is ITALY Magazine's Contributing Editor. She graduated from the University of Bologna in Literature and studied Print & Broadcast Journalism at the University of California in Los Angeles, where she has lived, on and off, for several years. She began her career in journalism working for a Southern California news agency before returning to Italy and going freelance. She has written both in English and Italian for a variety of publications; she has covered the entertainment industry in Los Angeles, where she had the chance to interview Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Pacino among others and reported live from the Golden Globes for ANSA. She now specializes in everything Italy-related.
Articles by Silvia Donati
Thu, 01/23/2014 - 01:00
From January 24 to January 27, Arte Fiera transforms Bologna into a party town focused on culture, making the capital of Emilia-Romagna a central poin…
Wed, 01/22/2014 - 01:30
After two years traveling around the world, the Mozia Charioteer statue has returned home to the tiny island of Mozia in Sicily, between Trapani and M…
Wed, 01/22/2014 - 01:15
Geeks + pizza = a laser-guided pizza cutter for cutting perfect and identical pizza slices.
The object, available online on the ThinkGeek website, is…
Wed, 01/22/2014 - 01:00
Visitors interested in learning more about the art of Northern Italian painter, draughtsman and illustrator Lorenzo Lotto will have the chance to do s…
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 03:15
Giulietta is the winner of the 49th International Dog Show held in Milan last week.
The beautiful Labrador Retriever was voted the “Best in Show,” fol…
Mon, 01/20/2014 - 09:16
Last week Roberto Bolle, dancer étoile at La Scala Theatre, posted on his Twitter account a picture of himself hugging his colleague and friend, also…
Mon, 01/20/2014 - 06:15
For the first time in the history of the Scuderia Ferrari, fans around the world will be given the chance to choose the name of the car with which Fer…
Mon, 01/20/2014 - 04:53
Italian conductor Claudio Abbado, one of the world's leading conductors, died today in Bologna. He was 80 years old.
Abbado was born in Milan on June…
Fri, 01/17/2014 - 04:00
Which city between Bologna and Modena boasts the best tortellino? Well, if you ask a Bolognese (like myself), he or she will tell you Bologna has the…
Thu, 01/16/2014 - 04:30
As the Italian government keeps cutting funds to cultural research, the result is that, in Italy, most of the archaeological excavations, as well as s…
Thu, 01/16/2014 - 03:30
The Roman National Museum at Palazzo Massimo is hosting an original exhibition called “Mostri, creature fantastiche della paura e del mito” (Monsters,…
Wed, 01/15/2014 - 02:30
Moored since 1961 in Ossuccio along the western shore of Lake Como, the Velarca, a historic house-boat that has become part of the lake landscape, is…
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 09:23
Only VIPs are allowed to pass the time more interestingly while waiting to catch their flights at Milan’s Malpensa airport.
A contemporary art install…
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 08:59
After a year of restoration work, the masterpiece by Arturo Martini, L’amante morta (The dead lover) has been brought back to its original splendor.…
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 06:20
2014 promises to be a good year for Italian art abroad. As we want our readers to be able to enjoy Italian art and culture even when not in Italy, we…
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 04:37
The U.K. has recently implemented a new system for labeling foods, which provides a colored sticker on the packaging: green for healthy products, yell…
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 04:01
Italian fashion houses Prada and Versace will fund the cleaning and refurbishing of damaged parts of the historic Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan,…
Mon, 01/13/2014 - 11:12
It's a good time of the year for all shopping aficionados: sales time, or, as we say it in Italian, è tempo di saldi!
I saldi invernali (winter sales)…
Mon, 01/13/2014 - 10:39
Check below the most visited exhibitions in Italy in 2013 (list compiled by Arte magazine).
1. The most visited exhibition in Italy in 2013 was the 55…
Mon, 01/13/2014 - 06:27
“Thank you to Italy that’s a crazy country but beautiful”: those were the words Italian director Paolo Sorrentino said at the end of his acceptance sp…
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