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A poetic tarantella of the heart. Walk, tremble and fall in the Matriamia, cry for connection from alleyways up to open windows. Expose your heart. Know what it is to feel "like an errant puzzle piece... never to be found, never to be put into place." A New Yorker learns to walk on Sanpietrini, connects with gay community in the Matriamia, finds li...

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Janice Bluestein Longone, who is credited with collecting thousands of items chronicling the culinary history of the United States, including cookbooks, menus, advertisements and diaries, has died at age 89. Longone died Wednesday, according to Nie Family Funeral Home in Ann Arbor. The cause and location of death weren’t announced. Longone’s collec...

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Whether your budget has been busted by soaring travel costs or you just can’t stomach the airport chaos of this summer’s constant cancellations and endless delays, there’s a good chance your dreams of sipping wine in Tuscany or strolling the fashionable streets of Milan have been dashed. To get you there in spirit, we’ve rounded up the 10 most fabu...

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There are few more universally appreciated moments in design than a dramatic before-and-after reveal—especially when the home in question is an 18th-century Sicilian palace. Palazzo Castelluccio was built by the region’s most prominent patriarch, Marquis di Lorenzo del Castelluccio, in 1782, following the devastating earthquake that struck nearly a...

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In the late 19th century, a new approach to writing took hold among Italian authors: depicting a practical and unbiased look at life. Taking root from a naturalist writing style, novelists focused on the characters’ emotions based on real-life situations, regardless of their social standing. Known as verismo (realism) their stories embodied the cha...

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For those who would like to read more about Rome than just guidebooks, I’ve put together a list of books that go further into Rome’s culture and food. These books can be useful and fun for first-timers, repeat visitors, or anyone just interested in reading about Rome. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying book purchases, which helps defer t...

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Milan has launched a smart library, offering printed books as well as audio books, at the city's Porta Venezia subway station. The BiblioExpress service offers more than 400 titles for all ages and tastes, including comics and DVDs, under a loan system linked to Milan's library network. The new automated library, which works similar to a vending ma...

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The feel and taste of an Italian grandmother's kitchen will be evident at The Chicory House when author Elizabeth Williams takes over for a celebration of her book "Nana's Creole Italian Table: Recipes and Stories from Sicilian New Orleans" at 6 p.m. Thursday. Williams, founder of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, will tempt the taste buds wit...

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Ever wonder where the foods Americans consider “Italian” come from? Well, the short answer isn’t Italy, at least not directly. After years of study Ian MacAllen has come up with a lot of theories on this question, many of the answers, and published them in an ambitious volume: “Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American.” {Rowman & Littlefield, 20...

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If This is a Man was written in 1947 by Primo Levi (1919 – 1987). He was a chemist who wrote this biographical work after his several years in a concentration camp. It was first published in 1947 and later in 1958 by Einaudi. It has been defined as one of the most important recounting of the Jewish extermination by the Nazis and it is about the yea...

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