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Italian physicists win Ig Nobel for perfecting pasta sauce

September 19, 2025September 19, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

A group of Italian physicists have been awarded the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for a study that tackles one of the country’s most cherished yet challenging dishes: cacio e pepe. Their work, carried out with colleagues from Austria, Germany and Spain, explores why the sauce sometimes turns creamy and delicious while other times […]

The Agony in the Garden painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431 - 1506 CE). Tempera on panel, c. 1460 CE. (National Gallery, London)

On this day in history: death of artist Andrea Mantegna

September 13, 2025September 13, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Andrea Mantegna, born around 1431 in Isola di Carturo near Padua, was one of the foremost painters of the Early Renaissance, whose strong sculptural sense and daring perspective helped shape Italian art in the 15th and early 16th centuries.

Italian ire as Carpaccio altarpiece returned to Slovenia

September 11, 2025September 11, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Allies of Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni have condemned the return of a Renaissance masterpiece to Slovenia, calling it a betrayal of Istrian exiles. The Carpaccio altarpiece has been in the Basilica of Sant’Antonio in Padua since 1943.

Kevin Spacey will be honoured at the Lucca Film Festival

Kevin Spacey to Open Lucca Film Festival

September 11, 2025September 11, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Kevin Spacey will open the 21st edition of the Lucca Film Festival, which runs in the Tuscan city from 20 to 28 September 2025.

Stefano Benni, Master of Satire and Imagination, Dies at 78

September 9, 2025September 9, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Stefano Benni, one of Italy’s most beloved satirical writers, playwrights, and journalists, has died at the age of 78 after a prolonged illness, the Feltrinelli publishing house confirmed on Tuesday.

Andrea Camilleri at 100 and the island of Sicily

September 6, 2025September 6, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Andrea Camilleri would have turned one hundred today, 6th September 1925, born in Porto Empedocle, Sicily. His name is synonymous with Inspector Salvo Montalbano, but to regard him merely as a crime writer is to diminish a vast, multifaceted literary legacy.

Giorgio Armani - fashion director has died aged 91. Image credit: REUTERS

Giorgio Armani dies aged 91

September 4, 2025September 4, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Giorgio Armani, the Italian designer who revolutionised fashion and built a global empire, has died aged 91.

The black cube in Florence which is causing a stir

Florence ‘black cube’ sparks outcry

August 31, 2025August 31, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Italy’s Ministry of Culture has launched an inquiry into Florence’s so-called “black cube,” a controversial ultramodern building in the city’s historic centre.

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On this day in history: birth of artist Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

August 30, 2025August 30, 2026Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, one of Venice’s most original painters and printmakers, was born on 30th August, 1727. The eldest of Giambattista Tiepolo’s painter-sons carved out his own artistic identity, moving from grand Baroque fresco cycles to intimate, wry portraits of everyday Venetian life. He also had an enduring obsession with the comic figure of Pulcinella.

andrea camilleri, author of the Commissario Montalbano series. Image: Sandro Michahelles

Italy marks centenary of Montalbano author Andrea Camilleri

August 30, 2025August 30, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Italy is honouring Andrea Camilleri, the Sicilian writer who created Inspector Montalbano, with a series of cultural events. 2025 is the centenary of his birth.