Agnone, home to the world’s oldest family-owned manufacturing company
by Catherine Marien Agnone is a pretty hill-top town at 840 m height, overlooking the verdant Verrino valley in the
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Italian Harvard genius changed the air you breathe
Today, on International Women’s Day, we wanted to put one of Italy’s leading female researchers in the spotlight: Francesca Dominici.
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Inspector Montalbano: most popular TV series ever
Yesterday night’s episode of Il Commissario Montalbano, the police detective created by the Sicilian author Andrea Camilleri, set a record
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Vinci, the birthplace of Leonardo
Situated on the slope of the Montalbano, amid the rolling hills of Tuscany, lies the town of Vinci, the birthplace
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Sophia’s Romantic Roman Villa
Aside from being a beautiful and extremely talented actress (she was the first artist ever to win an Oscar for
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The Way of St Francis: in Francis of Assisi’s footsteps on his 550km pilgrimage from Florence to Rome
The idea for this article was submitted by Hannah of Cicerone Press, who asked me if I would be interested
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A beautiful, “Made in Italy” success story: Angela Caputi
Today, I would like to put one of my favorite Florentine artists/designers in the spotlight. As I said in the
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Top 14 most influential Italian women
(updated March 8, 2015) In honor of International Women’s day, we would like to highlight some of Italy’s most influential
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Alberto Sordi, Italy’s movie legend or ‘Albertone Nazionale’.
Exactly 10 years ago yesterday, Alberto Sordi died in Rome, his hometown, on February 25, 2003. This event formally signed
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Rita Levi-Montalcini, a leading Italian scientist and Nobel Prize winner, died in Rome today.
Rita Levi-Montalcini was a neurologist and one of Italy’s leading scientists who, together with biochemist Stanley Cohen, received the 1986
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