Arts and Culture
The hell of a game
The video game “Dante’s Inferno” [Electronic Arts] which has already generated 10,000 web pages and has a following of 20,000 fans on facebook, has been released in Italy.
Read MoreLovely trailer, shame about the film
Gabriele Muccino’s “Baciami Ancora” [“Kiss Me Again”], the long-anticipated sequel to his hugely popular 2001 film “L’Ultimo Bacio” [“The Last Kiss”] has not generated the enthusiastic reviews that the Roman director would have wished for.
Read MoreNew water museum in Siena
If you have ever visited Siena, you may have wondered why the city has so many fountains. It is because long ago Siena’s hilltop location was excellent for its defence but meant that the citizens were a long way from water.
Read MoreThe age of elegance returns
Elegance is back in the creations on show at the 2010 Rome Fashion Week and Lorenzo Riva, who showed yesterday, pays homage to the 1970s heyday of actresses such as Monica Vitti.
Read MoreDoes Da Vinci have the last laugh?
Italy has witnessed a fair number of gender scandals lately and now the name of its greatest artist may be added to the statistics...
Read MoreThe San Carlo - the hope of a city
The oldest working opera house in Europe, the San Carlo Theatre in Naples, is to reopen on Wednesday following a two-year restoration project involving three hundred workers and an expenditure of 67 million euros [£58 m / $94.5 m].
Read MoreTwo unusual exhibitions
The Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence is displaying a somewhat gruesome work by Gaetano Zumbo, probably the finest of Italy’s wax modellers in the seventeenth century.
Read MoreKicking it into touch (VIDEO)
British football hero David Beckham was just telling an Italian reporter how nice the people of Milan had been to him when all of a sudden ....
Read MorePriceless statue found on Naples housing estate
A priceless ancient Roman statue, missing from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli since the 1930s, has been found in the middle of a flower bed on a housing estate in Fuorigrotta, Naples.
Read MoreThe $5000 Phone
The fashion house Versace, in partnership with French company ModeLabs Group, is to introduce a mobile phone which will retail at over $5000.
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