ROME: Italy’s new Cabinet took office Thursday, with one of its first decisions indicating it intends to reverse the euroskeptic vision of the populist...
FLORENCE, Italy: To protect the masterpieces at the Uffizi Galleries, the Florence museum’s director climbed a ladder and hurled an employee’s bicycle down at...
VENICE, Italy: A Venetian cloth dyer’s son, Tintoretto spent his entire career in Venice, becoming widely considered the last great painter of the...
ROME: So versatile were Leonardo da Vinci’s talents in art and science and so boundless his visionary imagination, he is known to the world as the universal...
ROME: He skipped a Cabinet meeting to attend a horse race and took a dip in a Tuscan villa’s swimming pool to show he didn’t fear the Mafia. He leads the...
ABOARD THE OPEN ARMS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA: The full moon was the only light as a terrified 9-year-old boy from Central African Republic climbed into a...
ROME: Italy’s election campaign reads much like a police blotter, chronicling a country whose politics lately have been increasingly nasty, divisive and even...
NAPLES, Italy: In the Naples suburb of Torre del Greco, a port town at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, voters are steaming. Local seamen have jobs lost to...
ROME: In Italy’s general election campaign, Rome’s uncollected garbage has become fodder for politicians – and at least one pig. The capital’s dirty streets,...
ROME: Consumer advocates in Italy demanded refunds for ticket holders this week after an expert concluded that almost all the paintings in a Genoa exhibition...
ROME: The remains of Italy’s King Victor Emmanuel III were repatriated from Egypt and interred in a family mausoleum Sunday in northern Italy, 71 years after...
ROME: He has neither the name recognition nor notoriety of a Nero or Caligula, but Emperor Trajan, dubbed the “best among emperors” by contemporaries, is...
ROME: Malta, a tiny archipelago nation in the southern Mediterranean, is so attractive to those looking to shelter funds or operate under the radar of...
TERNI, Italy: Italy’s plan to reduce the risk of a militant-inspired attack is pinned in small part on El Hacmi Mimoun, an imam who bikes to the prison here...
ROME: For centuries, Renaissance artist Pintoricchio was practically accused of blasphemy by those who contended that he used Pope Alexander VI’s young...
ROME: Artemisia Gentileschi was unusual for achieving success as a female painter in the male-dominated art world of the 17th century. Many admirers know her...
ROME: Six years of excavations have given Rome a new tourist attraction in the Circus Maximus, the sprawling valley where chariot races once delighted the...
The Colosseum has emerged more imposing than ever after its most extensive restoration, a multimillion-euro cleaning to remove a dreary, undignified patina of...
PHLEGRAEAN FIELDS, Italy: Puffing out clouds of vapor continuously is a volcanic phenomenon not far from Naples. And it’s not Vesuvius, whose spectacular...
ROME: Armed with shovels and sacks of cold asphalt, Rome’s residents fill potholes. Defying rats, they yank weeds and bag trash along the Tiber’s banks and in...
ROME: Gianfranco Romeo sits at a table at his trattoria off the Pantheon, casting scorn over the idea that he’s a frontman for a feared Mafia clan.“I always...
ROME: Desperate choices faced a Palestinian family who were tossed off a capsizing boat full of migrants into the Mediterranean Sea, with just one life...
ROME: Pope Francis is encouraging people to be joyful, saying, “We’ve never heard of a sad saint.” Some 50,000 people flocked to St. Peter’s Square for the...
LOCRI, Italy: First Italy fought its mafia mobsters by confiscating their wealth. Now judges are taking away something more precious: their sons.Riccardo...
ROME: Wars have been fought to obtain them. Medieval monks and modern-day bandits have pilfered them. Two millennia after the first Christian martyrs’ blood...