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During a recent visit to the Museo Teatrale della Scala I admired many antique prints of commedia dell’arte situations. Commedia dell’arte was a theatrical genre that evolved in the latter part of the sixteenth century. It was a popular  reaction to the erudite, dramatic traditions of the beginning of the century attempting to rival the great drama...

Rome celebrates Carnevale with around 100 events between 20 and 25 February. The six-day festival, whose theme is Carnevale in città, will feature parades, theatre, live music, films, guided tours and workshops. Highlights of this year's Carnevale in Rome will be Ambrogio Sparagna’s tarantella, with the musicians and dancers of the Orchestra Popola...

"And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face." This is what British author D.H Lawrence once wrot...

Italy escaped higher U.S. trade tariffs on some exported goods after directly lobbying administration officials in Washington, according to the country’s foreign minister. “Italy today emerges undamaged from the revision of the list of products subjected to tariffs imposed by the U.S. last October,” Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio boasted in a state...

Any parent with a connection to Italy is probably dreaming of bringing up little bilingual babies who speak Italian, understand the culture and can make gnocchi with Nonna! The truth is unless you live in Italy, keeping up with any language education is tough going. For adults, learning a new language is a long journey of classes, immersion, and ho...

Italy, a country known for its language of love and for its men who publicly shower overtures on women like a centuries-old art form, is often associated with romantic encounters of the kind portrayed in the movies, from “Roman Holiday” to “The Lizzie McGuire Movie.” So some black women ask, why shouldn’t it be the same for them? Latrese Williams i...

Italians in Italy embrace a slower pace of life, which explains the extended lunches and partaking in a daily aperitivo. The idea of the Italian aperitivo, is a quintessential Italian concept in step with living la dolce vita. It enhances the spirit of connecting with family and friends, to have good conversation and stimulate the appetite. Typical...

As enchanting and charming as Villa Caproni is, what makes Temple Rome and the student study abroad experience there truly special isn’t just the art, the architecture, the cityscape and the food. What makes Temple Rome truly special is people like Teri Morelli, known to all—even in her official Temple email handle—as Mrs. Morelli. For 34 years unt...

In the Middle Ages, it was the road that brought pilgrims from Canterbury to Rome. The Italian section today is a journey through some of the most fascinating places in the boot. On foot, you don’t need much, in fact very little is enough.  All that is required for this trip is a comfortable pair of shoes. And one of those light backpacks, not too...

The Castle of Torrechiara rises next to the medieval town of the same name in Langhirano, in the province of Parma. On its rocky hill, it still has the powerful profile of a fortress and the elegance of an aristocratic home. It was built in the 1400s by Count Pier Maria II de’ Rossi – a condottiero at the service of the Visconti and Sforza families...

C'è stato un momento, a cavallo della metà dei meravigliosi 90 anni che la Pininfarina festeggerà il prossimo maggio, che dall’atelier torinese uscivano esclusivamente capolavori. Il mondo dell’auto era continuamente a bocca aperta e c’era la fila dei costruttori che sognavano di avere almeno una loro vettura disegnata, se non addirittura direttame...

È ciò che emerge dal “Rapporto sul Turismo Enogastronomico Italiano 2020”, redatto dalla ricercatrice Roberta Garibaldi, in collaborazione con la World Food Travel Association e l’Associazione italiana turismo enogastronomico presentato in questi giorni che fotografa le dinamiche per cui i turisti internazionali arrivano nel nostro paese. La notizi...