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For the Love of Dante

Italofile Then and Now When I started Italofile in 2006, my goal was to help promote my Italy travel guides, collect Italy travel information in “real time,” and basically keep up with the ever-changing landscape that is the Italy travel experience. To give you an idea of how much can change, there really weren’t a…
True Crime in Tuscany: The Monster of Florence

The Monster of Florence is a true crime tale about a serial killer who terrorized the Tuscan hills around Florence for almost 20 years.
How To Make Bolognese Sauce [Video]

Here’s a great way to bring Italy home – learn how to make Bolognese sauce! There are dozens of instructional videos out there on how to make hearty Bolognese sauce. This one from GialloZafferano, a well-known Italian cuisine website and YouTube channel, is one of the most authentic ones that I have found. And this…
Abruzzo’s Beffi Triptych

The Beffi Triptych spends time in the U.S. following the devastating earthquake in Abruzzo.
Rumblings in the Wine World: The Brunello di Montalcino Wine Scandal

It has been a little under two weeks since Italy announced the findings in the Brunello di Montalcino scandal. In case you haven’t been following this case, Italian authorities — prompted by the United States — started an investigation to find out whether some renowned manufacturers of Brunello di Montalcino were making their wines with…
Ecotourism in Cinque Terre

Protect Cinque Terre offers guests the opportunity to work with locals in landscape preservation.
The Real Pinocchio

Last November, the New York Review of Books released Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio under its NYRB Classics imprint. The tale, as reviewed by Tim Parks in the latest issue, is much darker than the Disneyfied version. After the jump is Parks’ full review. As always, I urge you to subscribe to NYRB; they…