Italy

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was the master of light and shade

Italy's answer to Elvis has proven that it's often the most unlikely of experiments that make for a successful career

A new Italian heist movie toys, Tarantino–style, with the story of Mussolini's treasure

For all Fellini is held up as the ultimate chronicler of Rome in the 20th century, it’s Rimini that made him and Rimini that inhabits his films

The political chaos at home in Britain is almost matched by that in Italy

One hundred years ago, a malign figure took power in Rome and led a country to disgrace and destruction

The flats of La Vele were supposed to be the emblem of a utopian style of architecture. But they soon took on a very different identity

The new Italian PM’s policies are a mess of contradictions and she will struggle against the country’s liberal instincts and independent institutions

Italy’s new prime minister may turn to the centre right for support in a war against ‘woke culture’

Each of Venice’s 1,000 islands carries its own world. What happened when a Londoner (originally from France) moved there?

Rivers and reservoirs are shrinking, the land is parched. Welcome to Europe in 2050 – if we don’t act now

The Italian word obbligato has come to have two entirely contradictory meanings when used in English

Everyone expects far rightist Giorgia Meloni to be Italy’s next PM. What happens next is uncertain

The only way to defeat them is for the left to link arms with the centre

The Kremlin has been meddling in Italian politics and will be pleased with what it sees

There was far more to Anna Maria Pierangeli than what cinema-goers saw on the screen and friends saw off it

In Rome, to remember the past and our common humanity, sometimes you must look down

The big presence at the Venice Film Festival's 90th birthday party was the streaming giant

Venice has produced few major writers – yet few places have inspired so many authors

Individually their fates were an immeasurable tragedy for two families, together they were a cause

The Italian's driving walked the line between skill and recklessness but never crossed it

This year’s Lerici festival in Italy marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Percy Shelley with a celebration of British culture

Celebrated as one of Europe’s leading fashion writers, the Italian was better known for her sheer presence on the scene

The plot to depose Italy’s PM is good news for Silvio Berlusconi, the country’s far right – and Vladimir Putin

A fire that destroyed a library in Venice 455 years ago has inspired a superb Anselm Kiefer exhibition on loss and retrieval

Italy’s unusually stable government under the experienced Mario Draghi is poised to collapse and take the country back to the days of ineffective alliances and controversial populists

Italy’s unusually stable government under the experienced Mario Draghi teeters on the brink of collapse as it faces a confidence vote that could take the country back to the days of ineffective alliances and controversial populists

Little known elsewhere, the brutal Calcio Storico is a 500-year-old annual tradition unique to the Tuscan city

The presenter managed to stay at the top for six decades, winning hearts whether baring her monochrome midriff to a startled nation or holding that same nation’s politicians to account in full colour

The fictionalised story of a real Swedish football prodigy’s struggles tells ugly truths about the beautiful game

Six years after the referendum, predictions of a mass exodus from the EU have proved – like so many other things they claimed – wide of the mark

Ex-bartender Giorgia Meloni has taken a party with historic links to Mussolini to the top of Italy’s opinion polls