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Paolo Rossi, hero of the 1982 World Cup, died in Rome on 9 December 2020 after a long battle with an undisclosed disease. He was 64. Rossi was integral to Italy's World Cup win in 1982, a journey that saw the Italian National team battle past Maradona's Argentina, as well as Brazil, Poland, and ...

'La Tragedia: An Italian Immigrant's Quest for Justice' by Elissa DeNunzio is based on a true story. Read an excerpt.

Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Here's how to get tickets and prepare for Midnight Mass.

A list of Italy-based books to give and get in 2020. Add these travelogues, cookbooks, and novels to your shopping cart.

Naples and Napoli mourn the death of Diego Maradona, who passed away on 25 November 2020. Here are reactions, front pages, and videos of Maradona's life.

In a year that has had little to no travel and more time than usual spent at home, LEGO has unveiled its massive 9,036-piece Colosseum builder kit. The Colosseum is LEGO's biggest building set yet, edging out the Millennium Falcon set which has 7,541 pieces. Once built, the LEGO Colosseum ...

Throughout the long, lonely months of our modern pandemic, I've been thinking about a dark and mysterious painting in Palermo known as "The Triumph of Death." Known in Italian as Il Trionfo della Morte, the painting hangs in Palazzo Abatellis, a regional gallery in the Kalsa quarter of the ...

Damnatio Memoriae, a modern description of a common Roman practice, condemned unpopular leaders to oblivion. Here's how that worked and what we can learn from it today.

Romulus is a 10-part tv series about Rome's origin story told entirely in archaic Latin.

To know Italy's weather is to understand its winds.

There are few artists in history who inspire intrigue quite like Caravaggio. Here's where to find his works in Rome.

'Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe' is a comprehensive look at the history of Ravenna during its golden age.

A look at Franco del Zotto Odorico's art at the Tina Modotti house in Udine.

"If you buy a house for €1," says a new homeowner from Belgium, "you can't expect it will be beautiful. Impossible."

Now is a great time to enhance your knowledge about Italian art and history. Consider these online courses and seminars.

The English version of Elena Ferrante's latest novel The Lying Life of Adults is finally coming out on September 1. It's available now for pre-order from both Amazon and Bookshop. Released in Italy in November 2019, the English version of La Vita Bugiarda Degli Adulti was originally set to come ...

First used during the bubonic plague in the 17th century, Tuscany's wine windows are reopening. Learn more about "buchette del vino" and where to find them.

Gallinara, the turtle-shaped island 1.5 kilometers off the western coast of Liguria, has been sold to a single owner. Ukrainian aerospace tycoon Oleksander Boguslayev, a resident of Monaco who holds citizenship in Grenada, purchased the 11-hectare island for just over 10 million euro. ...