Not only Brexit: Italians have yet another referendum to be worried about
Let us admit it: Italians, as well as all those people who moved to London and the UK from the continent, are nowadays holding…
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Polish your silver: Brexit could push Britons to buy properties in Italy
Whilst the media are highlighting a sudden pro-remain change in the pools, which the international markets have immediately rewarded by granting the sterling pound…
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Italian photography at Photo London
An Italian in London. Michele Bella, director of Galleria Valeria Bella, the first Italian gallery to be selected among the 80 leading international galleries to…
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Ranieri’s success is worth 90 million
Claudio Ranieri and the success of Leicester? 90 million. Ennio Morricone and his Oscar? 97 million. The astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti? 63 million. We are…
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A house in Italy is a dream? Not really. Providing you have one euro to spend.
In a few places, from Sicily to Sardinia, mayors of little villages or semi-abandoned hamlets (borghi) are encouraging locals (or more likely the heirs…
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A garlic kiss? No more. The aglione saves the taste and the breath
If you love Italian food but at the same time love… making love, fear no more: your spaghetti aglio e olio or your bruschetta…
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Portrait of a cabbage and other vegetables
Call it the vegetarian’s paradise. The exhibition on display in Turin, at Palazzo Madama, will please vegans, greengrocers and nature’s lovers alike. But will…
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‘Stay human’. Nicola Campiotti sends a message of hope
“You really understand the meaning of things through the act of travelling. Travelling is what travel means, not the destination”. This sentiment is what…
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The beautiful and the ugly: Goya portraits at the National Gallery
Cherchez la femme. Behind the new exhibition at the National Gallery, ‘Goya: The Portraits‘ there is Letizia Treves, a blonde young Italian lady co-curator…
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Carmen Consoli on how being a mother can help her music (and her vision of life)
An enchanting and reassuring voice. The mellow tone of someone who has matured and knows it. Carmen Consoli, the bestselling Italian singer-songwriter, speaking on…
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When Italy went upside down. Nadia Terranova and her book about the 70s
After ‘Bruno, il bambino che imparò a volare‘ (which was awarded both the Naples and the Laura Orvieto Prizes) it’s time for writer Nadia…
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5 things you don’t know about pasta
1. Was pasta invented by Chinese (and brought by Marco Polo) or not? Come on! It was known and eaten in Italy at least…
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