After Lord Nelson was killed at Trafalgar his brother was given £90,000 to buy an estate. He snapped up Standlynch Park and hung a painting of the Pantheon on its wall. That painting has been donated to a Milan museum by Italy's top art patron thetimes.com/world/europe/a…

Another example is Florence Cathedral, the west front of which was left unfinished for four centuries. Millions of tourists think they are looking at original Medieval architecture, but work on the façade only restarted in 1876 — the same year the telephone was invented.

💬 “Every day, we receive medical documentation testifying miracles: there are very many,” says Antonia Salzano, Carlo Acutis’s mother She tells James Imam how she brought up her son – the world’s first millennial saint ⬇️ trib.al/Iymys1L

This remote Tuscan village's latest bid to reverse chronic population decline will be to create what is billed as Europe's longest zipline thetimes.com/article/20f247…

Somehow I feel that this restitution push for Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is not going to gain much momentum theartnewspaper.com/2024/07/23/for…

"This decision was like killing her for a second time". Lawyer Concetta La Torre tells me legal reform is required to ensure all perpetrators of femicide are handed life sentences thetimes.com/world/europe/a…

Having faced off government bans and protests from Italian taxi drivers, Uber has made surprisingly little noise about its new Venice taxi boat service. For those who work on the canals, however, the company's arrival did not go unnoticed. thetimes.com/world/europe/a…

on.ft.com/4dvR2DL Under its new superintendent, the Arena di Verona has weathered controversies including the use of blackface in Aida, an orchestral revolt over Plácido Domingo's conducting and an investigation over mafia involvement in the construction of stagings.

For €7,000 you can rent out the archaeological park for three hours with tourists forced to wait outside. You also get one hour for photos inside the Second Temple of Hera, described by D.H. Lawrence as “the best preserved of all Greek temples”. theartnewspaper.com/2024/08/01/tem…

For some, it is a startling masterpiece that bulldozed operatic conventions and paved the way for musical innovators to come. For others, it is unrelentingly angry and dark, a messy mix of stock Rossini and pastiche Gluck on.ft.com/4diSXfn RossiniOperaFestival

Salvini vows to save Italy's Vespas from "eco-craziness" of EU thetimes.com/article/b412fe…

As Italia Nostra pointed out in interview for this piece, Portofino mayor who has declared war on air conditioning units has also done much to destroy village, including for building road through its nature reserve (for which he was taken to court) thetimes.com/article/3bb31c…

Anthropologist Ernesto Di Renzo said: "ice cream is not essential for our survival but we eat it anyway because we are Homo sapiens sapiens and we are characterised by a hedonistic pursuit of pleasure". thetimes.com/article/7372a7…

Più fonti qualificate del ministero e di Palazzo Chigi, sentite da Domani, spiegano che ci sono seri indizi che Maria Rosaria Boccia possa avere in mano non solo audio e conversazioni scritte con Sangiuliano. Ma pure intere chat della piattaforma Whatsapp tra il ministro della

Inter Milan's Ultras run a portfolio of rackets -- from selling cocaine to parking permits at San Siro and taking kickbacks from burger stands -- and Calabria's ’Ndrangheta mafia is muscling in. Writing by Tom Kington thetimes.com/world/europe/a…

From pariah to model for the centre-left on how to deal with asylum seekers. And all in less than two years.

Learn a lesson from Sicilian mafia bosses who run a complex organisation through a system of typed or handwritten notes delivered by a network of "postmen". Slow but effective, especially in avoiding detection.

Given Mossad's exploding pagers and walkie talkies is a real spy story, if Italy's spy glasses fiasco had broken two weeks later nobody would have noticed and Gennaro Sangiuliano would still have a ministerial role

Images coming from Emilia Romagna's latest floods are pretty shocking