Italy's Great Beauty nominated for Oscar
Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza) was among the films nominated for the best foreign film Academy Award on Thursday, just three days after winning the best foreign film award at the Golden Globes.Italians are now hoping the movie will give the country its first Oscar since Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful...
Ricerca: scienziato tricolore al top, Italia non perda guerra dei cervelli
E' il recordman italiano della scienza, il camice bianco da 77 mila citazioni che si è guadagnato la posizione più alta, fra i cervelli del Belpaese, nella nuova classifica Usa sui primi 400 scienziati più influenti al mondo. Ma per Alberto Mantovani, direttore scientifico dell'Irccs Humanitas di Rozzano e docente dell'università degli Stu...
Rome second favourite for US tourists
Rome is the second most popular international destination for US tourists this summer, after London, according to the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA). The association's eleventh annual Hot Spots for Summer survey revealed that Rome is in second place with an eight per cent share of votes, with London in top place with nine per cen...
Sophia Loren interview: 'Why I burnt my diaries'
Sophia Loren has long epitomised glamour and pure Hollywood sex appeal – even though many of her movies were in fact Italian. There is probably no greater on-screen chemistry than Sophia Loren and Cary Grant's in Houseboat (1958). They met when they made The Pride and the Passion in 1957, and they were really in love. She was enthralled wi...
Santa Maria della Scala, an artistic treasure in the oldest European hospital
Between naturalism and real life, between dream and reality: walking through the Santa Maria della Scala museum will take you into a special world where the art and history of one of Europe's oldest hospitals are brought to light. Located along via della Francigena in Siena, Santa Maria della Scala used to be the hospital for abandoned chi...
Sibillano – Cataldo: “America il musical”: successo a Roma. Aggiunta una data a Crotone
di Ilaria Faraoni America, il musical che racconta l'emigrazione italiana del Novecento, scritto da Guido Cataldo e Simone Sibillano, dopo un breve tour ed il successo del ritorno al Teatro Italia di Roma, dove il pubblico gli ha riservato una standing ovation, sarà eccezionalmente a Crotone, presso il Teatro Apollo, il 13 marzo (ore 10:00 e ore 2...
Roma Sparita
by Alessio Garofoli In Rome, on the banks of the Tiber, around 150 years ago, where Richard Meier's shrine containing the Ara Pacis is located nowadays, there was a small harbor: Porto Di Ripetta, whose appearance, it is said, served as inspiration for Trinità dei Monti Spanish Steps. At that time the houses next to Tiber's waterf...
Luxottica Boosted by Currency, U.S.
Currency tailwinds and a strong performance in the U.S. and Europe sustained Italian eyewear giant Luxottica Group SpA in the first quarter, leading to record sales and operating profits as well as double-digit gains in net income. After the close of trading Monday in Milan, where Luxottica is listed, the company said that in the first three month...
10 wonderful frescoes to admire in Central Italy
by Claudia Baroncelli With the wonderful Jacopo Juvarra hall in the seventeenth century Palazzina di Caccia Stupinigi (Turin) coming back to new life after restoration and the famous Andrea Mantegna's Bridal Chamber in Castello di San Giorgio (Mantua) reopening to public, Italy is once again one of the best places to admire timeless and ex...
Pasquale Remedio: 'It's a no hard you can do it.'
I would like to pay tribute to my father for strongly influencing my life by instilling in me the principles to seize opportunities and to strive for a better life by hard work and dedication. He was born poor in southern Italy where farming was the main industry. His own father, Joe Remedio, an orphan left his wife and five children to fi...
10 greatest designs from Pininfarina, the studio that shaped Ferrari
Italian studio Pininfarina designed the twentieth century's greatest Ferraris and through their work with the Prancing Horse -- plus the likes of Fiat, Lancia, and Alfa Romeo -- helped define the emotive Italian style of the mid-century sportscar. On the company's 85th birthday, Paulo Pininfarina, the fourth patriarch of the family to head...
Cuisine of the 20 Regions of Italy
Italy is made up of 20 regions with distinct characteristics; each region makes the same dish in vastly different ways and each one has its proudest specialty. These cooking traditions define people's identities just as much as their dialects and traditional costumes. Local cooking preferences and customs are shaped by geographic, historical and cl...