The University of Pisa is recruiting volunteers for a neuroaesthetics study exploring how works of art trigger emotional responses. The only qualification you need is curiosity.
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Silvio Berlusconi’s most loyal political fixer, Marcello Dell’Utri is heading back to court aged 84. He is accused of hiding vast capital flows from the late tycoon that he was legally obliged to disclose.
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Venice’s storied opera house has terminated all ties with its controversial music director-designate Beatrice Venezi after comments she made to an Argentine newspaper. Venezi’s interview brought months of bitter conflict to an abrupt head and sparked scenes of jubilation inside the theatre itself.
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Giovanni Caselli, the Sienese inventor whose pantelegraph transmitted handwritten images along telegraph wires more than a century before the fax machine, was born on 25 April 1815. He died on the same date he was born in 1891.
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Laboratory tests have confirmed the presence of agricultural pesticides in wolf carcasses recovered from one of Italy’s oldest and most celebrated national parks. Conservationists and opposition politicians demand urgent government action and call for a planned parliamentary bill to cull wolves to be shelved.
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A court in Parma has convicted Chiara Petrolini of the premeditated murder of two babies she secretly delivered and buried on the family property.
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On 23 April 1554, Venice lost one of the most remarkable literary voices the Italian Renaissance had produced. Gaspara Stampa, considered the greatest woman poet of the Italian Renaissance, died at just 31 years old. She left behind a body of work that would take centuries to receive the recognition it deserved.
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A tourist has been charged with defacing a historic monument after allegedly climbing the iconic Neptune Fountain in Florence’s Piazza della Signoria to touch the statue’s genitals. It was, she said, a pre-wedding prank dared by friends.
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Born on 22 April 1891, in a small Piedmontese town, Vittorio Jano went on to become one of the most consequential figures in the history of motor racing. He was a quiet, methodical genius whose engines powered world champions across four decades and three of Italy’s most famous automotive brands.
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Palermo has claimed its place in the record books with the creation of a giant arancina weighing 62.3 kilograms. Unveiled last Sunday on Palermo’s Mondello beach, it surpasses a previous record set in Messina in 2023.
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