Italy’s Palazzo Chigi has co-signed a joint statement with European partners, Canada and the UK backing the two-week US-Iran ceasefire. They call for a swift diplomatic settlement and pledging to help protect shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
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The painter and mosaicist Gino Severini was born on 7 April 1883 in the hilltop Tuscan town of Cortona. A leading figure in early 20th-century Italian art, Severini became one of the most internationally connected members of the Futurist movement, bridging artistic developments in Italy and Paris before moving through Cubism and later Neoclassicism.
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A court in Rome has ruled that subscription price increases applied by Netflix in Italy between 2017 and 2024 were unlawful. It orders the company to reimburse affected users and reduce its current prices.
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Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has accused several Italian media outlets of attempting to link her to organised crime. They published a photograph showing her with an alleged criminal figure.
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Italian air passengers can expect delays on 10 April after unions called a four-hour national airport strike. The stoppage will run from 13.00 to 17.00.
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The ruins of Pompeii have once again rewritten the historical record, casting new light on the military technology of the ancient world. A team of Italian researchers has identified impact marks on the city’s northern defensive walls that they believe were made by a polybolos. The Greek-engineered repeating artillery weapon (‘machine gun’) was capable of […]
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Survivors from a Libya crossing say 105 people were on board. Only 32 migrants were rescued alive as the Mediterranean death toll hits its highest level in over a decade.
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Milan Linate, Bologna, Venice and Treviso have imposed emergency jet fuel limits, with Ryanair warning of potential summer flight cancellations if the Iran conflict persists.
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Francesco Laparelli was born on 5 April 1521 in Cortona, one of the ancient Etruscan cities of what is now Tuscany, into one of the city’s wealthiest and most distinguished families. It was a beginning that gave him access, education and connections, and the opportunity to create one of Europe’s most extraordinary capital cities – […]
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He was one of Italy’s most wanted fugitives, hunted for more than a year on charges of murder. But Roberto Mazzarella, 48, head of one of Naples’ most powerful Camorra clans, was undone not by a tip-off or an informant but by an Easter holiday.
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