Profiles

A group of international scientists are trying to work together and gather information about Leonardo Da Vinci and his work, in order to solve a long-time mystery and determine if bones presumed to belong to the famed Renaissance artist are …

Italian 116-year-old woman from the northern region of Piedmont, Emma Martina Luigia Morano, is now the oldest person on earth after the death of the African American Susannah Mushatt Jones, who passed away in Brooklyn, New York. Nonna Emma Morano, …

When he died in 1960, everyone feared that his immense artistic and entrepreneurial patrimony would be dispersed among family disputes and economic claims. Instead, this did not happen. The label founded by Salvatore Ferragamo survived by his ancestors and gained …

Giovanni Falcone  was a Sicilian prosecuting magistrate born in Palermo, Sicily in 1939. He spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the power of the Mafia in Sicily. After a long and distinguished career, culminating in the famous …

The Italian Olympic Committee announced, through its President Giovanni Malagò, that swimmer Federica Pellegrini is going to be Italy’s standard bearer at the opening ceremony of this summer’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Pellegrini, 27, won silver in the 200-metre …

According to the official statistics, offered by the Registry of Italians Resident Abroad (A.I.R.E.), over 27.000 Italians leave their home country behind, every year (actually, the numbers double, if we consider the unofficial data of those unregistered). Mind that we …

Young Italian photographer, Giulio Rimondi, is the definition of globetrotter. However, even if you travel low-budget, you still need money, especially if you want to cross the Oceans. In 2013, affected by the financial crisis, which “brought Italy to its …

To an Italian, Dante is croce e delizia, pleasure and pain: forcefully immersed in the study of his heavenly works during the rebellious years of adolescence, we usually begin our relationship with the Dantean world with the wrong foot. But …

Editor Gabriella Cristiani (born in Foggia, city in Apulia, southern region of Italy), had the fortune to grow up in the film circles of Bologna (Emilia-Romagna region of Italy), living and breathing the excellence of Italian cinema, between the late …

Italian Maestro Riccardo Muti will return to Milan’s La Scala Opera House next year in January when he will be conducting the Chicago Symphony in two different shows.   This is gonna be the first time that Muti returns to …