A housekeeper with serious culinary skills helped feed the mind and mouth of Ancel Keys, the American doctor famous for documenting the health benefits of Mediterranean food.
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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.
The infamous 1972 film sparked a years-long legal battle in director Bernardo Bertolucci’s native land. The recently restored court archives are now being made public.
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.
Back in 1965, the Italian office machine company launched the revolutionary P101, used by NASA and later copied by U.S. rivals.
A top prosecutor in Sicily informed the UN in a recent report that so-called ‘phantom landings’ — vessels that reach the island undetected — are on the rise.
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.
With many in the Northern Hemisphere now making their way back to the office, it’s time to share stories and rankings of our respective summer vacations. One question that always comes up: How crowded was it? Indeed, travels to popular foreign destinations continue to grow worldwide. In 2018, there were an estimated 1,4 billions international […]
It would be a mistake to assume that Italy has seen the last of the controversial ‘Captain,’ who will have a different kind of influence at the helm of the opposition.
A traditional party and a populist movement may join forces to get Italy out of its political crisis and avoid yet another election.
Italy reached a preliminary agreement with other EU countries on rescuing migrants at sea. But Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has not shared the news at home, and has kept attacking his supposed partners, especially Germany.
MONTE CASTELLO DI VIBIO — “Sei la figlia di Satana! Gesù non ti ama!” It was 1989 and I was 8 years old — and my teacher was screaming at me in front of my classmates, telling me I was Satan’s daughter and that Jesus didn’t love me. I had been looking forward to my […]
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Dry As A Sardinian Sculpture
These wrinkly clay busts were sitting in the backyard of a Sardinian sculptor’s workshop. With the sun on their grimacing faces, this felt like the right image to share today as temperatures broke records across my native France.
The Italian writer’s work is best known for his role recounting the horror of concentration camps. He was that man, and so much more.
It’s not that Italian women don’t enter politics. But they don’t, for the most part, rise through the ranks to national leadership positions. Why?
Social media dialogue and reader comments on news stories suggest that the far-right’s xenophobic rhetoric resonates for immigrants.
Sure, Naples has sun, sea and amazing pizza. But it’s also violent and corrupt, and there’s no point in pretending otherwise. A look from Italian city’s celebrated author.
Italian soccer has had its fair share of icons — and prejudices. With the Women’s World Cup underway, it’s time to rewrite the rules of the beautiful game for the beautiful country.
From France to Poland, the far-right draws people in with plot lines that offer fast and easy answers but no long-term solutions.
The 1948 neo-realist cinematic masterpiece can be a key to understand Italian society today. With a digital twist.
Should schools add new subjects every year to keep up with the times? Or is their job simply to help students become critical thinkers? A new mother’s musings.
Once upon a time, Italy embraced its own politically incorrect billionaire-turned-politico. And yet the real shift toward Trump-style nationalism came after Berlusconi’s departure.
In Italy, while some agencies put people in touch locally, others help customers find a spouse in Asia — and then fly them over for the nuptials.
It started as an unlikely marriage of convenience: after Italy’s elections in March 2018, the far-right League party and the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) formed a coalition government. Fighting over the choice of prime minister, the two parties settled for an unknown political figure: Giuseppe Conte, a lawyer whose 12-page résumé raised more than […]
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Chinese Stores, Made in Italy
Business models are changing, but Chinese presence in Italy’s business world remains high.
Ramy Shehata is a 13-year-old boy who saved the lives of as many as 50 classmates during a March 20 school bus attack in Italy. The driver, an Italian citizen of Senegalese origin, hijacked the bus, threatening to set it on fire. Shehata secretly — and courageously — sent out an alert on the phone […]
Former center-right politician Flavia Perina says Italy won’t easily move backwards when it comes to women’s rights, because the female electorate is watchful.
Italy’s political leaders who rejoiced with Brexit referendum are now silent.
We often flocked to Italy for Spring, as weather there tends to be better than in my sometimes rainy neck of the French woods. But mornings can be a bit cloudy — nothing to worry this woman at the center of the picture, who was diligently setting up deckchairs, waiting for the sun to warm […]
Kali and Marika have been stuffed with nandrolone and carnitine, doped and “dried,” waiting to represent the Wild Boys Kennel against rivals Top Line. And so it would end: the former died, the latter won. Zeus instead had been tested with a couple of sparring matches, waiting an encounter with Dwaith: they tore each other […]
Researchers are sending remote-controlled aircraft into residential neighborhoods to figure out just who’s burning what in their stoves or fireplaces.
A recent survey of Italian political views shows a seeming contradiction: a willingness to forego democracy but submit to EU economic and military directives.
Outside of Naples, researchers have turned land polluted by illegally-dumped chemicals into a living laboratory.
NAPLES — It was the last game of 2018, and I was looking forward to it. I had planned to go with my brother, a staunch Napoli fan, my soccer-loving Argentine husband and a bunch of old friends. It was also a symbolic gesture: I am back in Italy after almost two decades living abroad, […]
AGAZZANO — This village in the northern Italian province of Piacenza is tucked between the hills. The locality is celebrated primarily for its castle, a complex that represents an incredible synthesis between defensive medieval architecture and the elegant, ladylike mansions of the Renaissance. And the beautiful interior of the Castle of Agazzano is the perfect […]
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Italy, Pasta Così
The Italian border is just a four-hour drive from my hometown. Over the years, I ended up going to Italy with my family dozens of times, to enjoy the seaside, the beautiful architecture, the warm climate, the history — and yes, la pasta.
Far-right and far-left from around the world voice support for the popular uprising in France.
Europe’s aggressive migration policy has seen Italy dive into the obscure world of national shipping flags to sabotage rescue missions.
PARIS — Human migration is the story of our times. Victims of conflict and climate change, pushed by poverty at home and pulled toward opportunity abroad, people on the move are both a catalyst and consequence of globalization. Yes, immigration is a polarizing political issue, but also a keen reminder of the shared circumstances that […]