Valuable pieces of art have a special appeal to people in organized crime, both as trophies — conveying power and prestige — and as a means to launder ill-gained earnings.
Author: America Hernandez
I am an independent investigative journalist from Los Angeles with experience covering the arts, politics, and the American legal system.
A Venice-based novelist reflects on the disappearing tourists, imploding economy and politicians siding with the apocalypse.
Entrepreneurs say ‘Basta’ to stop the ordinances they say risk paralyzing the economy.
Shortages of medical supplies are already hitting in the northern city of Turin, in Italy, which is by far the worst hit European country from the COVID-19 coronavirus.
It is the most delicate of roles right now, as Father Georg continues to serve his original boss, retired Pope Benedict XVI, while also heading the Papal household of Pope Francis.
Locals are pushing back against plans to build a five-star hotel that would throw grape-killing shade on the famed Italian city’s last ‘real’ neighborhood.
The legendary composer — just 13 at the time — left Austria exactly 250 years ago for a lucrative but exhausting odyssey through the powerful Italian kingdoms and duchies of the day.
A new rendition of the famous Puccini opera opens this month in Milan, and it all revolves around the powerful and predatory Scarpia character.
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Reforming the retirement system is necessary, but must be be done in a way and at a pace that won’t tear an already divided French society further apart.
Medically assisted procreation is restricted by law in Italy to heterosexual couples. A La Stampa reporter posed as a woman seeking to get pregnant and found dozens of willing men online.
Thousands of Romanian girls are tricked and coerced into working the Italian streets, which are controlled by brutal Albanian mafia clans.
The venerable old city needs to embrace innovation and stop putting all of its eggs in the tourism basket, writes Italian-born architect and MIT professor Carlo Ratti.
Buccinasco, a town just outside of Milan, was quietly invaded decades ago by the ‘Ndrangheta mob from the southern region of Calabria. But a new program could be sweet revenge.
A group of dedicated growers grapple with difficult terrain, scorching heat and the area’s gradual population drain to produce a unique variety of wine called Armacìa.
As a new Leonardo da Vinci exhibit opens an eternal Parisian question returns of whether his (and the world’s) most famous painting is a blessing or a curse for the world’s most visited museum.
On a recent trip to Sicily, Israeli novelist A. B. Yehoshua was reminded of the Mediterranean’s still powerful role as a meeting place of peoples and cultures.
It was autumn, 1939. Germany had just invaded Poland. France had not yet fallen. Mussolini was Hitler’s ally on paper, but had not yet mobilized troops. And the United States wouldn’t enter the war for another two years. Exactly 80 years ago this week, the Mazzini Society was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, allowing intellectual émigrés […]
The far-right League party in Italy, rising in popularity, now faces the prospect of being marginalized by its extremist rhetoric after this summer’s gamble by its populist leader backfired.