Italy

The Targa Florio road race pitted drivers against every imaginable danger.. including stray dogs

Can the football-mad Italian city achieve the ultimate goal?

A revelatory collection of Mediterranean antiquities makes for a quietly subversive exhibition in Cambridge

The story of Odysseus’s Italian origins are surprisingly popular and Sicilian tourism companies know how to capitalise on this

When Maria Callas met Pier Paolo Pasolini in the late 1960s, the results were predictably explosive

History is repeating itself in Italy – and not in a good way

Draghi promised to do “whatever it takes” to prop up the single currency, but high interest rates have damaged his legacy

The country has its first female leader and the highest number of women working in law in Europe. Has Italy changed?

This recipe from the chef of Quality Wines uses the finest charcuterie from rare-breed pigs in the Bologna Apennines

Forty-three years after the Bologna station bombing killed 85 people, including a young couple from Bristol, a far-right militant was finally jailed for his part in it

Lack of rain and extreme summer heat are causing a dramatic decline in olive oil production in Italy. Consumers and producers alike are worried

The humble life of St Francis of Assisi continues to inspire valuable paintings, showcased in an upcoming exhibition at the National Gallery

The diminutive Italian actress, star of La Strada and Nights of Cabiria, was more than a match for her husband, director Federico Fellini, on and off set

The prison island in Tuscany is a social experiment in which 80 prisoners look after animals, orchards and fields

The skiing season and Europe’s winter sports culture are under existential threat from rising temperatures

The language arrived in Wales much earlier than England thanks to links between Britons and ordinary Romans

A notorious mafia killer is now behind bars – but why did it take so long to catch him?

On the frontier between Italy and France, the desperate brave the passage of death

In Italy, the art of dubbing foreign films is creating voiceover celebrities. But that means the homegrown screen industry is losing out

Our economy is suffering the same problems of low growth and poor productivity experienced by our Italian neighbour

He was born into a farming family, but it was always the agricultural machinery rather than the land itself that fascinated the young Ferruccio

Luciano Spalletti could have retired. Yet not only is he back on the touchline, he is thriving

He was a quiet man who serially painted humble, dusty objects. So what makes Giorgio Morandi one of Italy's greatest arists?

The government hail it as “momentous” - it’s just a simple memo with no extra money or cut in tariffs

Homegrown movies are struggling at the Italian box office

After mourning Pope Emeritus Benedict, Catholic traditionalists are again lining up against Pope Francis

How fascist leaders in Italy, Spain, Germany and Greece all tried to control the public by stifling linguistic variety

Gianluca Vialli was a man who chose his own paths and could articulate the reasons why

The extraordinary rituals and legends that accompany the death of a Holy Father

His was acting of remarkable subtlety and nuance, especially when sharing the screen with some of cinema’s most magnetic women

A bank in Italy accepts cheese as a deposit. And why not?

The writing in Glory Ride – A New Musical feels raw and so do the lyrics, but this show has a fascinating yarn to tell